Get to know more about a fascinating, sometimes bizarre nation, romantic and crazy, with a history full of brilliance and brutality, through its literature.

This Babel Guide presents modern Hungarian literature: novels, short-story collections, poetry and drama that have been translated into English. Sample the hallucinogenic typography of Péter Nádas, the psycho-comedic narratives of Ágnes Hankiss, or Tibor Déry's lilliputian characters.