Meet The Continental Literary Magazine

Attending the events will be:

• SÁNDOR JÁSZBERÉNYI: The author of The Devil Is a Black Dog: Stories from the Middle East and Beyond (New Europe Books, 2014). In 2017 he received Hungary’s Libri Literary Prize. As a correspondent for Hungarian news sites, he has covered the conflict with the Islamic State, unrest in Ukraine, the revolutions in Egypt and Libya, and the Gaza War. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, AGNI, and The Brooklyn Rail. He divides his time between Budapest and Cairo.
• DÁNIEL LEVENTE PÁL is a poet, writer, circus dramaturg and director. He is the author of five poetry collections and two books of short stories. His writings have been translated into English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian, Romanian, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese and Thai. Since 2016, he has been working for the Capital Circus of Budapest as a playwright and dramaturg. As a circus director, he won the Staféta Prize and the Special Prize of the 13th Budapest International Circus Festival.
• OWEN GOOD: A Northern Irish translator of Hungarian poetry and prose, Good is the translator of Krisztina Tóth’s short story cycle Pixel (Seagull Books, 2019). His translations have been published in Ploughshares, Modern Poetry in Translation and The Poetry Review. Besides The Continental Literary Magazine, he co-edits Hungarian Literature Online.
• ÁDÁM MAGYAR: Ádám Magyar is a Berlin-based Hungarian photographer and video artist. He began taking pictures in his late twenties, when he started wandering Asian cities capturing their street life in images of Indian street vendors, wandering holy men, and students in an exclusive Himalayan school. Obsessed with finding innovative new uses for digital technology, Magyar's work quickly evolved from conventional documentary photography to the radically experimental, and surreal.His works are included in the collections of New York Public Library, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Deutsche Bank, and Microsoft. His photographs have been published in In the Life of Cities by the Graduate School of Design Harvard University, Light and Lens by Robert Hirsch, Contact Sheet by Light Work, in various photography magazines including PDN, Musée, and PQ Magazine in the USA, Flash Art in Hungary, Digital Camera Magazine in the UK, and Katalog in Denmark.
• JUDITH NEWMAN: Judith B. Newman (born 1961) is an American journalist and author. She writes about entertainment, relationships, parenthood, business, books, science, and popular culture. Her work has run through more than fifty publications, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Harper's, The Wall Street Journal, Allure (where she served as Contributing Editor) and Vogue Newman's books include the memoirs You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: The Diary of a New (Older) Mother and To Siri With Love.

Joining virtually:

• LANCE HENSON: Henson was born in 1944 in Oklahoma. He earned a master’s degree in Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Henson’s poetry is known for its powerful imagery, brevity, and universal appeal. Henson is a writer and educator, and he served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Lance has published 17 books of poetry, half in the U.S. and half abroad. His poetry has been translated into 25 languages and he has read and lectured in nine countries.
• ANNA TERÉK: The author of five collections of Hungarian poetry and drama, including Duna utca (Danube Street), Vajdasági lakodalom (Vojvodina Feast), and Halott nők (Dead Women) which received several prestigious prizes. Her work has been translated into English, Spanish, Turkish, Croatian, German and Polish, among other languages. Her most recent collection, Háttal a napnak (Back on the Sun), was awarded the Milán Füst award. Her poetry has appeared in English in Hungarian Literature Online, One Hand Clapping, and Eurolitkrant.
• TOMÁŠ ZMEŠKAL: Tomáš Zmeškal (born 1966) is a Czech writer. In 1987, he left the then-Czechoslovakia to live in London, where he studied English language and literature at King's College. He taught at Charles University for a while, and currently teaches in high school. Zmeškal was lauded for his debut novel Love Letter in Cuneiform Script. The book won the EU Prize for Literature and the Josef Škvorecký Prize.

Hungarian wine and light refreshments will be served.