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A shepherd-shaman-poet's life amid the 2008 election campaign in Mongolia is featured at an exhibition of works by documentary filmmaker Zoltan Furedi and photo-reporter Balazs Simonyi at the DocuArt Gallery in Budapest.
March 11, 2010
Gregoire Tosser was awarded the Prix Hungarica, a cultural award for a Hungary-related work in France, on Tuesday.
March 10, 2010
A 52-year-old Hungarian driver has watched cartoons for a total 104 hours on end in an attempt to break a Guinness record, organisers of Budapest's Animania Movie Marathon told MTI on Tuesday.
March 10, 2010
A new symphony by composer Janos Vajda will open the 10th International Opera Festival in the city of Miskolc (NE) on June 9-20, organisers told reporters on Wednesday.
March 8, 2010
The city of Pecs in southwestern Hungary will present the works of hundreds of Roma artists as part of the programmes of European Capital of Culture 2010, head of the local Roma council told the press.
March 1, 2010
The Hungarian city of Pécs is offering more than 40 programmes for young people this year, while it is a 2010 European Capital of Culture.
February 28, 2010
Hungary's Magvető, which introduced Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men to Hungarian readers, has published the American writer's The Road.
February 27, 2010
The Hungarian Institute in Stuttgart is celebrating its 20th anniversary at a gala on Friday.
February 26, 2010
An exhibition of artists from Hungary's southwestern city of Pecs, which is the European Capital of Culture this year, opened in the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday.
February 26, 2010
The Hungarian city of Pécs is expected to draw 30-35pc more visitors in 2010, when it is a European Capital of Culture, a tourism official told local daily Új Dunántúli Napló on Thursday.
February 25, 2010
An exhibition of yet unpublished photo portraits made by outstanding Hungarian photographer Laszlo Varkonyi was opened at the headquarters of the Association of Hungarian Journalists (MUOSZ) in Budapest on Thursday.
February 25, 2010
The German Language and Poetry Academy has awarded the Johann Heinrich Voss prize to Zsuzsanna Gahse in recognition of her translations of Hungarian literature into German.
February 23, 2010
Hungarian Education and Culture Minister Istvan Hiller met with his Romanian counterpart Hunor Kelemen in Bucharest on Friday to discuss bilateral relations, EU related issues and the renewal of a cooperation agreement.
February 23, 2010
The Hungarian Bella Szederkényi has won the IVG Award for Best Student Short Film at the Brussels Animation Film Festival.
February 22, 2010
Hungary will be a guest at the 20th European Days of Culture in the Germany city of Karlsruhe between April 17 and May 8.
February 22, 2010
The Israeli Cultural Institute, the first in the world, will open in Budapest's Paula Ede utca in the autumn. Before the renovation of its new home, the institute is organising an open week on February 21-28.
February 21, 2010
Dance productions, including contemporary, ballet and folk, are on the Pécs2010 European Capital of Culture programme.
February 21, 2010
The Hungarian pianist Alex Szilasi will perform works by Chopin at the Hungarian Culture Institute in Warsaw on Sunday. The concert is part of celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.
February 21, 2010
Two civil organisations in Sopron plan to erect a statue honouring András Sütő, a writer and a member of the Hungarian minority in Romania who had close ties to the city in western Hungary.
February 21, 2010
Minister of Education and Culture István Hiller on Friday inaugurated the new home of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Bucharest.
February 20, 2010
