To start the new academic year and to welcome newcomers; we are also planning a book exchange. 

An illustrated talk. Sándor is a British architect with numerous British-Hungarian interests. 

Following her broadcast, A Poet of my Heart on BBC Radio 3, Mia remembers the poet in the year of the centenary of his birth. She will introduce her new  translation of the short story The Month of Twins (Ikrek hava) and read some of her favourite Radnóti poems. 

A highly stylized adaptation of early-20C author Gyula Krúdy's short stories . Depicting the life and memories of traveller and womanizer Szinbád (played by Zoltán Latinovits), who tries to recover his lost love before he dies, the film is generally regarded now as one of the best works of Hungarian cinema.

Danilo Kiš (1935-89), the renowned Yugoslav author, had a father who was Jewish-Hungarian, and a Christian Orthodox mother from Montenegro. As well as writing novels and stories, Kis became a distinguished translator of Hungarian poetry into Serbo-Croatian. Mark is writing a critical biography of him.

Tim teaches history at the University of Bristol. He has written books on ghettoization in Budapest and the post-war representation of the Holocaust and is now completing a social history of the Holocaust in Hungary.

We are hoping to have our usual end of year party - details later.