Bázis – Hungarian Association of Literature and Arts in Slovakia is an association for autunomous, independent literature, art and science in Slovakia.

Discourses on Intimacy and Indiscretion in Modern and Contemporary Literature – Autofiction, Biofiction, Roman-à-clef and Beyond. Beatrix Visy will give a lecture at the University of Pécs. Location: University of Pécs, Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6., E/527. Time: 22nd and 23rd May, 2025. More information and program: https://btk.pte.hu/hu/hirek/konferencia-irodalomtudomanyi-doktori-iskola.

ZENITH by Jamie Lee and Stanislav Dobák with music by László Pálmai will be performed by the Motionhouse experimental dance theatre in Banská Bystrica (Záhrada – centrum nezávislej kultúry, Banská Bystrica, Námestie SNP 16) on 7 May 2025 at 19.00 and on 9 May 2025 at 19.00. For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/j-lee-s-dobak-z-e-n-i-t-h-prem/1015460916689065/ Trailer: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=693167916592448 https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1654879391823791

Renata Deák, Eva Andrejčáková, Miklós Forgács, Lenka Nagyová and Gabriela Magová will participate in the Tranz translation festival in Banská Bystrica on the 1st and on the 3rd of May 2025. More information: https://www.tranz.sk/.

I am still riding that freelancer’s life & the Yugo wave! One day trip to Bratislava for the finishing touches with the publishing house on my next book translation from Hungarian to Slovak － Fantómové komando (Fantomkommandó)by Roland Orcsik. The book takes place in the 90s in Serbia (then Yugoslavia). YUGO WAVE 1. As an […]

The English translation of Felicia Salber‘s novel “Lovaghercegnő” – “Knightly Whispers”, by Krisztina Timár, has won a novel competition in the United States! Congratulations to Felicia Salber, member of Bázis! More information on Felicia Salber’s Facebook page.

The translation and forthcoming publication of Rita Halász‘s novel Mély levegő – Deep Breath translated by Kris Herbert has been reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly. The full article is available on the Publisher’s Weekly website. “Halász’s intelligent debut novel chronicles a fractured marriage in contemporary Budapest. Vera, an animator, flees her verbally and physically abusive husband, […]

Last Friday Ajna Marosz performed at the concert in Sofia with the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra with conductor Rastislav Štúr. She played Telemann together with a flutist Yana Ibrishimova, and then a contemporary Recorder Concerto by Slovak composer Marek Pastírik. Photos: Ajna Marosz’s Facebook page.

Last year (including last week) I was querying literary agents. Yeah. For those of you who don’t know what “literary agents” and “query letters” are, they are the all-important step between an aspiring author and a respectable publisher in the US/UK book market. I wrote about this in Hungarian (here: https://bazis.me/text/salber-felicia-min-dolgozol-a-heten) and honestly, explaining it again […]

A protest action “Hungarians beyond the Danube” took place in Bratislava’s Šafárik Square, where young Hungarian-speaking people were attacked last Friday, with more than 150 protesters taking part. The event featured speeches by Lucia Molnár Satinská, Laura Bárczi and Veroni Gyenge. Photos by Laura Bárczi (1-3) and Tamás Csanda (4-15).

Machine Listening as Sonification. András Blazsek‘s study was published on Organised Sound journal. The full text is available on the website of the Cambridge University Press. “Machine listening takes place through sonification. It transforms sound into data that it analyses and rewrites again as sound, translating inaudible dimensions of the audible into the sonic realm. […]

The spring semester starts this week, and unfortunately this is the time of year when the university administration takes over: which courses start, which don’t, whether we’ll have the number of hours, how much overtime we have, uploading course descriptions to useless systems, checking numbers, whether the people who need to take the course have […]

Kinga Tóth will give a lecture and a sound poetry performance at the Central European University in Vienna. Location: Vienna Campus, Quellenstrasse 51, Room: Auditorium. Time: Friday, February 14, 2025, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. More information: https://events.ceu.edu/2025-02-14/mariamachina. “In MARIAMACHINA, the posthuman cyborgs from ALL MACHINE are brought to life. They are joined by chants, songs, chorales, and […]

Márton Simon‘s book of poems, Cold Pizza, will be presented in New York. Location: New York, 215 E 82nd St, New York, NY 10028, USA. Time: Feb 13, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Moderator: Aniko Szucs. More information: https://www.hungarianlibrary.org/event-details/poetry-reading-cold-pizza-with-marton-simon “About the Event Simon Márton (born 1984) is a poet and one of the most-read […]

I started working at the University of Turin in Italy in July. There used to be a Hungarian Studies department 25 years ago, my task is to rebuild it. I spent the previous semester preparing and started teaching now. The Italian university system is very different from what I was familiar with, so it requires […]