The Transylvanian Hungarian Cultural Association and the Consulate General of Hungary in Cluj organized events in Satu Mare and Oradea in honour of Hungarian literary personalities.
Poet Jenő Dsida, playwright and essayist Géza Páskándi and poltician Elemér Jakabffy, a great supporter of literature – were in the centre of the programme held in Satu Mare on 12-13 May.
At the event, which included a literary conference and a wreath laying ceremony, Jenő Schönberger, county bishop of the catholic church and Katalin Szili, prime minister’s commissioner remembered the three personalities. At the statue of Dsida Jenő, the Consulate General of Hungary in Cluj also placed a wreath of remembrance.
In May, Oradea was the venue for literary programmes, too: as part of the 30th Festum Varadinum festival on 14th May, an exhibition was organized in cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Arts at Leda House about writer Miklós Mészöly’s life, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. Gáspár Gróh literary historian and curator of the exhibition gave a lecture on the writer’s oeuvre at the opening of the exhibition, The exhibition arrived in Oradea after Budapest, Kisoroszi and Cluj.