The 23rd Book Festival Budapest begins today with neighboring Slovakia as the guest of honor. Many authors who have appeared in B O D Y and Literalab will be present, including Uršula Kovalyk, Viťo Staviarsky, Pavel Vilikovský, Jana Juráňová and Slovak translator Julia Sherwood.
The festival includes a First Novel festival comprising 16 European writers among which is the inimitable Velina Minkoff, who has work in the just-released Bulgarian issue of Drunken Boat.
There are also, of course, numerous Hungarian writers participating in the festival, such as B O D Y-published Gábor Schein.
The festival program looks quite interesting but what I like best is that besides a download link and a generic audience photo, the only thing on the website program page are the words: “We reserve the right to change the programme.” That doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
Photo by András Farkas
literalab 
where are you located in europe?
i will be in iceland (briefly) & lithuania (a wk., invited to their annual international poetry festival at the beginning of oct.) & croatia & bosnia (a wk., to talk abt grants & distrib. deals) & italy (very briefly) & spain (a wk, to talk abt tr. projects & grants), w/ a global eurail pass. i’d love to meet you, & give you some copies of the latest gobshite quarterlies (now completely multilingual, all fiction/essays/pomes/feuilletons/journalism in at least 2 languages, but usually 3 to 5.
we’re also doing books (3 to 5 a yr, & some of them en face, bilingual (& some planned projects, en face, trilingual). if y’r curious i can mail you a couple of recent issues, & a couple of books. yr obdt svt
rvb Gobshite Quarterly http://www.gobshitequarterly.com R.V. Branham, Editor 338 NE Roth, Portland OR 97211-1082 USA ph: 503-381-4182 e-: gobq@yahoo.com
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Hey, I’m based in Prague, would love to meet up if you’re passing through. You can reach me at michael@literalab.com and I’ll email you my mailing address. I think I have your email too. Would love to read some issues. – M