The Hungarian language is the basis of the national identity, intellectual and cultural heritage of the Hungarian people. The Parliament of Hungary has declared 13 November as the Day of the Hungarian Language, as it was on this day that the Hungarian Language and Nationality Act II of 1844 was passed, making Hungarian the state language.
On this memorable day, the Liszt Institute invited Hungarian writer, poet and literary translator Sándor Halmosi to greet the audience with a video message and read from his works in Hungarian.
Sándor Halmosi
Hungarian poet, literary translator, editor, publisher and mathematician. Born in Satu Mare, Romania, Halmosi lived and worked in Germany for sixteen years. He is the founder of many literary and cultural associations, organizer of workshops and salons, member of the Hungarian PEN Club (Budapest) and of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (EASAL, Paris). He has been closely connected to a global network of poets and writer associations. Halmosi was awarded the Prima Verba prize in 2003. He publishes regularly, including several books of poetry that have also been translated into several languages. He is published in the United States by Cross-Cultural Communications & New Feral Press.
Sándor Halmosi is a participant of the European Literature Night, a highly successful multicultural literary event organised by the Czech Center and the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) taking place on 22 November at the Czech Center's Bohemian National Hall in New York.