Azeri books on display in Hungary
Baku, April 16 (AZERTAC). A corner of Azerbaijan initiated by Azerbaijani Embassy in Hungary was organized at the 18th International book festival in Budapest, Hungary.
The festival kicked off under the EU auspices on Thursday opened by Hungarian Natural Resources Minister Miklos Reteli.
More than 100 books of different publishing houses of the country have been exhibited in the corner of Azerbaijan. About 30 books published in Hungarian aroused keen interest among the festival participants.
A part of the books were presented to Hungarian book lovers.
The 18th International Book Festival held with participation of famous writers and poets of the EU countries will last till Monday.
The International Book Festival of Budapest is one of the largest book fairs in Central and Eastern Europe. The festival, held at the end of April, is in 20th largest in the world.
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 honor at the 12th 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.
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