Foreign guests as well as Hungarian writers are regularly invited to the festival. World famous writers like Salman Rushdie, Victor Yerofeyev, Sawomir Mrozek, Robert Merle, Lawrence Norfolk, and Mario Vargas Llosa have won the grand prize of the festival in previous years, and the guest of honour at the 11th festival was Nobel Prize winner, Günter Grass. Every year one invited country is given the opportunity to present itself. To this date, visitors to the festival have been able to get a taste of the cultures and literature of Italy, France, Germany, Russia, and Spain.

The International Book Festival of Budapest is not exclusively about books; it is truly a festival of combined arts. Over the course of the four days literary evenings, book premiers, talks, film screenings, theatre performances, and exhibitions take place, all adding colour to the programme. The festival is also associated with the European First Novel Festival, which introduces the most talented young novelists of Europe.

The International Book Festival of Budapest is open to all and all of the books - usually more than 50,000 - are on sale.

Venue: Budapest Congress Center
Address: 1123 Budapest, XII. district, Jagelló út 1-3.
Organiser´s tel: 1/343-2537"

Source: hungarystartshere.com