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Hungarian Cooperation in Kosice 2013 Programme
The Slovakian city of Kosice is preparing its European Capital of Culture 2013 programme with Hungarian cooperation.
Among the events on the programme involving Hungarian assistance are ones that showcase the Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, who was born in Kosice.
Flóra Ondová Reiter, who is in charge of the Márai project, said the organisers won a 160,000 euro grant to support it. Among the elements of the project is a collection of cultural routes put together with the help of the Museum of Literature Petőfi in Budapest, she added.
The routes – nine in Kosice and six in Budapest – take visitors to places of significance for Márai and his career.
Tibor Mészáros, a Márai researcher at the Museum of Literature Petőfi, said the map with the routes is supplemented with a 20-page publication that gives a better explanation – in Slovakian, Hungarian, English and German – of the writer’s ties to Kosice and Budapest.
Karol Vlahovsky, a Slovakian translator who earlier won the Hungarian Academy of Science’s Füst Milan Foundation Translator Prize, said the 13th volume of the Kalligram Publishers’ series of Márai works would be published in 2013.
Visitors to Márai’s former home in Kosice can see a revamped memorial room, complete with the latest technology, to appeal to younger people, from October 20.
A 53-minute documentary film on Márai’s life in Kosice and Budapest recently premiered in the Museum of Literature Petőfi. The film, entitled Against the Wind, is the work of Ildikó Enyedi, who worked on the Hungarian part, and Martin Stelbasky, who made the Slovakian part.
Sonja Jelinková, of Slovakia’s state tourism agency, said the Hungarian Travelexhibitionwould be a guest in Kosice in 2013, according to plans.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
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