The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature in English Translation

Boulevard Books is a publishing house dedicated to the promotion of world literature in translation, and this unpretentious, accessible series of pocket guides has won praise in Reference Reviews, The Guardian and elsewhere. The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature in English Translation covers a range of nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, drama and poetry, featuring reviews of individual works and anthologies supplemented by brief extracts, supported at the back of the book by a bibliographic “database” of Hungarian literature which has been translated into English.

Many of us could name a Hungarian composer or footballer, but would be hard...