Fogyasztóvédők Magyarországi Egyesülete

81th Book Festival Week
03. June 2010. - 07. June
Kossuth Square

Debrecen

The Festival Book Week is a unique event of the Hungarian literature and publishing throughout Europe. There is no such book promotional event in Europe which focusing of the language of the national culture, literature and authors every year since its foundation in 1929. The event covers all the major cities and enable readers to meet with authors at the dedication desks. In 1927 Geza Supka the editor in chief of the "Literatura" magazine proposed to settle book promoting days at the same time every year. His dream was that every hungarian town and city will organize the event where writers and audience can be in direct contact with each other. His plan became a reality in 1929, when they opened the first Festive Book Day in Vorosmarty square, Budapest. Few decades later the event grew to a week long festival surviving the hard days of the 20th century. It was only one year when they had to cancel the programmes, in 1957 just after the bloody events of the 1956`s revolution.

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