After an early lunch, on 19 May, at 1 PM it is worth visiting the Petőfi Museum of Literature where author and wine-writer György Dragomán and Xanthe Clay of The Daily Telegraph are joined by friends from the Hungarian wine world to discuss the renaissance in Hungarian wine and its prospects for wider recognition. The 1,500 HUF ticket price includes tasting of leading wines served with suitable snacks.

From 4:30 PM Gaston Vadasz talks to the Welsh-language Children’s Poet Laureate Eurig Salisbury about his works and the riches of the Welsh language. At 6 PM Nóra Winkler talks to Japp Scholten, the Dutch writer living in Budapest about his latest book Comrade Baron, his first non-fiction work, about the Hungarian aristocracy in Transylvania and how they survived communism.

At 7:30 PM Peter Florence, founder and director of Hay Festival talks to Péter Esterházy, one of the world’s greatest novelists and men of letters, author of Not Art, Celestial Harmonies, and Revised Edition in Petőfi Museum of Literature.
All discussions will be provided with simultaneous interpretation.

The last programme on Sunday is a concert of the French Films, a Finnish band formed in 2006 whose music has been strongly influenced by the Ramones, the Beat Happening, the Beach Boys and Jesus and Mary Chain. Their debut album Imaginary Future won the European Border Breakers Award, and now they have been touring with their second album. The event starts at 9:30 PM at Akvárium Klub.

On 20 May, Monday, 5 PM György Dragomán invites you to a free literary walking tour starting from Hotel Intercontinental. At 6:30 PM the Petőfi Museum of Literature hosts the Australian professor of poetry and author of The Female Eunuch Germaine Greer who lays bare Shakespeare’s depiction of romantic lovers and the explorations of sex, love and marriage in the plays, with special reference to Romeo & Juliet.

The goal of the Hay Festival founded 25 years ago in Hay-on-Wye is to make people think together about the world both as it is and as it might be. Hay is a great discussion on revelation and intellectual adventures where participants share their ideas and stories with international authors and thinkers, historians and philosophers, poets and scholars, and at nights we are entertained by famous musicians.

Carl Bernstein

The legendary American investigative journalist, Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate scandal, will soon visit Budapest. Foreign Editor Edit Inotai talks to the world-famous American investigative journalist at Hay Festival, in the Petőfi Museum of Literature, on 21 May, Tuesday, 6:30 PM.

On 17-21 May, the Hungarian audience will have the chance to meet international authors, thinkers, musicians and well-known Hungarian authors, at the Hay Festival, in Petőfi Museum of Literature, the Central European University (CEU), and Akvárium Klub. The closing event of the festival will be on 21 May, Tuesday, 6:30 PM in PIM where Foreign Editor Edit Inotai talks to the legendary American investigative journalist Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate scandal.

Carl Bernstein while working with Bob Woodward at The Washington Post, they did the most important news reporting on the Watergate scandal which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. For his role in breaking the scandal, Bernstein received many awards, and the Post earned a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.

Bernstein is the author or co-author of six books: All The President’s Men, Final Days and The Secret Man, with Bob Woodward; His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time, with Marco Politi; Loyalties; and A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (published in Hungarian in 2008 by Alexandra Publishing House).

Hay Festival was founded in Hay-on-Wye 25 years ago, and it has grown into one of the most significant cultural series of events in the world, with eleven festivals across five continents. The goal of the festival is to make people think together about the world both as it is and as it might be. Hay is a great discussion on revelation and intellectual adventures where participants share their ideas and stories with international authors and thinkers, historians and philosophers, poets and scholars, and at nights we are entertained by famous musicians.

The programme – with simultaneous interpretation from English to Hungarian – is organized in collaboration with the US Embassy in Hungary, American Corner of Corvinus University, and Alexandra Publishing House.

Architecture At Hay Festival

On 18 May, Saturday, 11 a.m. in the CEU Auditorium Hay Festival’s guests are Odile Decq, the French architect and academic, Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur and Martha Thorne, Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize who discuss about contemporary architecture.

On 17-21 May, the Hungarian audience will have the chance to meet international authors, thinkers, musicians and well-known Hungarian authors, at the Hay Festival, in Petőfi Museum of Literature, the Central European University (CEU), and Akvárium Klub. The cultural event organized in Budapest last year for the first time offers architecture programmes in 2013, too. On 18 May, Saturday, 11 a.m. in the CEU Auditorium Hay Festival’s guests are Odile Decq, the French architect and academic, Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur and Martha Thorne, Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize who discuss about contemporary architecture.

Odile Decq is an award-winning French architect and academic. She is the director of the Paris firm Studio Odile Decq, previously known as Odile Decq Benoît Cornette Architectes-Urbanistes, or ODBC Architectes. After graduating in architecture in 1978, Decq received a diploma from the Institute of Political Science in Paris in 1979. After running her own agency for a few years, she created a partnership with Benoît Cornette in 1985, establishing the architecture firm ODBC.

The two buildings they completed for the Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes (1990).

Working on her own since 1998, Decq won the competition for an expansion to Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001. In 2004, she was also successful in receiving a commission for the Regional Contemporary Art Fund building in Rennes. She also designed the restaurant at Opera Garnier in Paris in 2011. Since 1992, Odile Decq has been a professor at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris where she was elected head of the Department of Architecture in 2007. The architecture firm ODBC received the Golden Lion Award for their contributions to architecture at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 1996.

Odile Decq became a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur in 2003 and received the International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007.

Hay Festival was founded in Hay-on-Wye 25 years ago, and it has grown into one of the most significant cultural series of events in the world, with eleven festivals across five continents. The goal of the festival is to make people think together about the world both as it is and as it might be. Hay is a great discussion on revelation and intellectual adventures where participants share their ideas and stories with international authors and thinkers, historians and philosophers, poets and scholars, and at nights we are entertained by famous musicians.

The programme – with simultaneous interpretation from English to Hungarian – is organized in collaboration with the IE University.

Tickets for the discussions can be purchased in advance – adults: 600 HUF, pensioners and students: 400 HUF – at the ticket office of PIM (Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum), the Libri bookshops, online at www.PORT.hu, or at the venues on 21 May, Tuesday.

Source: Hay Festival Budapest