PesText 2025 // International Festival of Literature and Culture

2025-05-07T15:00:00.000Z  -  2025-05-10T20:00:00.000Z

Here is the list of authors for the PesText 2025 Spring Festival! 📚🌍

This spring, world literature returns to Budapest! From May 7–10, the PesText International Literary and Cultural Festival is back, featuring some of the most exciting contemporary authors!

Organizer info
May
07
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May
10

Schedule

The festival's special guests:

📚 Christoph Ransmayr

📚 Petr Zelenka

📚 Joanna Concejo

📚 Karin Smirnoff

📚 David Almond

📚 Olja Ivančević Savičević

📚 Elisa Shua Dusapin

📚 Clare Leslie Hall

Highlights from the program:

✹ Translation workshops and the V4 Translation Happening

✹ Illustration workshops with Joanna Concejo

✹ Play readings with Petr Zelenka

✹ Christoph Ransmayr mini-festival

✹ Inspiring panel discussions

✹ Meet and greet sessions with book signings.

One of the special features of PesText is that all events are free to attend.

📍 Venues:

– HĂĄrom HollĂł – Piarista köz 1., 1052 Budapest

– PetƑfi Literary Museum – Károlyi utca 16., 1053 Budapest

đŸ—“ïž Date: May 7–10, 2025

The PesText festival is organized by the Hungarian Literature Copyright Protection Association and Rights management (MISZJE), with the support of the Hungarian Foundation for Culture and in cooperation with the PetƑfi Cultural Agency.

Main Sponsor: Hungarian Foundation for Culture

Key Supporters: NKA, MNMKK PetƑfi Literary Museum

Follow the event and stay tuned for more details! Who's excited already???

Location

HĂĄrom HollĂł

Contemporary culture at the Pest foot of the Elisabeth Bridge.

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