Two of the authors, Elif Safak and Iskender Pala, will be present at the event, Sakir Fakili said. Guest of honour Sofi Oksanen will receive the Budapest Grand Prix, the highest Hungarian literary award granted to a foreign author, from Budapest Mayor István Tarlós on the fair’s opening day on April 24.

Other eminent guests to the fourday fair include Hungarian-born American political scientist Charles Gati, Pulitzer Prize-winning Polish- American author Anne Applebaum and Norwegian author Jörgen Lorentzen.

At the fair, a separate stand featuring an exhibition will be set up to mark the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust and the 25th anniversary of Hungarian-Israeli diplomatic relations.

The tenth anniversary of Hungary’s EU accession and the 25th anniversary of the dismantling of the Iron Curtain at the Austrian border will also be highlighted at the fair organised in the Millenáris cultural centre.

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