Katalin Ladik was born in 1942 in Novi Sad. Her life work was acknowledged by Attila József and Kassák Award. Besides several books in Hungarian language, her poems were published in Yugoslavia, Franc...
A girl - while taking a walk through the centre - discovers something very strange about the people of Sarajevo. They seem like lifeless 'zombies', they only come alive for a few seconds to perform a little scene written down for them. She takes it as a joke first and fools around until she comes ac...
Cziráki, a cosmetics’ agent comes to the police station as a witness of a murder-case. The bureaucratic machine of the police swallows him (like Josef K in Kafka’s novels) and the series of misunderstandings start. Because of a chaotic situation he’s suddenly closed in an empty roo...
Andi is a normal, 14-year old teenager. Except one thing: she is in platonic love with her handsome swimming coach. She rather endures her swimming mates' mocking of her because of her apparent attraction that to give up on her feeling, but what to do, when someone is desperately in love? One day An...
Twenty cabbages, six crates of apples, thirty garlic strings - our hero gets a few hours to give back to his creditors what he owes. Moskvich, liverwurst, marzipan.
This story started thirty years ago. I was a seventh grader in the January of 1980 when I got a Soviet pen-friend. Our Russian teacher handed out some envelopes with Cyrillic writing on them saying that from that those were our pen-friends. I was luc...
Once they were warriors in the bush. They were abducted from their villages, their families as a children. They returned home after many years - if they were lucky and survived the combats, hiding, raiding and endless walking - as an adult after a nightmare...