15: 00–16: 00 What is the paper girl dreaming about? (online video chat)
Eva Veronika Kalapos talks to Elisabetta Gnone
Elisabetta from Gnone primarily Fairy Oak and W.I.T.C.H. However, in the framework of the PesText Festival, Olga, the paper girl, published by Móra Kiadó. it will be the first two volumes of the trilogy. These texts deal very subtly and sensitively with the issues of self-knowledge, self-acceptance and processing of losses, grief, forgiveness.
16: 00–17: 00 Losonci legend
Norbert Vass talks to Peter Balkko
Although the volume of Peter Balko's short story is still to be published, the Hungarian readers can get to know him at the 2021 PesText Festival. Balko's textual world is characterized by both anecdotal narrative and cinematic vision (also known as a screenwriter in his homeland), and he depicts Hungarian-Slovak relations in his narratives.
17: 00-18: 30 Release (video chat, projected on site)
Boldizsár Nagy talks to Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness's name has long been widely known to the Hungarian readership. We mostly refer to him as the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, but the diversity of his work will be represented by his novel Freedom, which will be presented at the PesText Festival and follows Adam Thorne, a 17-year-old gay boy from a religious background. According to international critiques, this is Ness’s most heartwarming, yet rawest and most sincere novel to date, in which the reader sees in the depths of how one recognizes one’s own value.
18: 30-19: 00 Connections (video chat, projected on site)
Sándor Jászberényi talks to Jonathan Marder
Several important titles for Jonathan Marder can be highlighted: The New Yorker magazine, Random
House and former vice president of BBC America as well as a founding member of BAFTA, just to name a few. In his conversation with Sándor Jászberényi, it becomes clear what interesting things an experienced professional from such a milieu can offer to the Hungarian book industry.
19: 00-20: 00 Alfred Nobel, as we have not known before
Noémi Szécsi talks to Ingrid Carlberg
After August Prize-winning writer and journalist Ingrid Carlberg, he now presents himself with a biography of Alfred Nobel, in which he is the first to write a summary of Alfred Nobel and the background to the Nobel Prize.
20: 00-21: 00 No-talk about the sea
David Zelei talks to Ismael Ramos and María Eloy-García
Dávid Zelei, one of the editors of the volume, asks the two invited authors about the first piece of the 1749.hu book series, the recently published contemporary Spanish versantology Not Talking About the Sea. Floating before the editors ’eyes was that the reader of the volume would put the book down as it felt: to be Spanish is something much more disparate, nuanced, familiar, and alien at the cocktail party of the Banderas, who are declamating things on the Costa Brava.
21: 00-22: 30 Muzsik and Volkova concert
Concert of the songwriting brother and sister Muzsik and Volkova.
Members of the songwriting formation Muzsik and Volkova have been playing together for more than 10 years, and their duo was founded in the summer of 2016. They created a new world of music called Muzsik and Volkova, their songs reflect sensitively and explicitly on community and private situations, life situations, public events. Their instruments are characterized by diverse, experimental solutions. Muzsik and Volkova are a great continuation of the interrupted work of the two great Hungarian public chroniclers. It is no coincidence that Tamás Cseh and József Dinnyés have also processed songs to a high standard, undertaking a spiritual and spiritual community with their oeuvre. From the summer of 2020, they will also perform in a renewed orchestral line-up, with Szabi Takács (double bass) and Patrik Prommer (drums).
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