Magvető is a Hungarian book publishing company based in

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. It primarily publishes domestic and international works of literary fiction.

History

Magvető was established in 1955 as a publisher of the Magyar Írók Szövetsége (now the

Hungarian Writers' Association The Hungarian Writers Union (also known as The Free Union of Hungarian Writers) was founded in 1945 at the end of World War II. Initially the union was intended to be an organizational body through which the interests of writers in Hungary could be ...

). Its main task was to publish contemporary Hungarian fiction and classical Hungarian literature. However, it also published

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works since it was founded. Upon its founding, a special competitive situation was created within the framework of the state socialist system between Magvető and the similar publisher Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó. It soon became apparent that works which differed from the mainstream of literary policy, which provoked political or aesthetic debates, were more likely to be published by Magvető. Such works included

Endre Fejes Endre Fejes (15 September 1923 – 25 August 2015) was a Kossuth Prize and Attila József Prize-winning Hungarian author, and a founding member of the Digital Literary Academy, with his literary works often based on working life. Literary care ...

's '' Rozsdatemető'',

Géza Ottlik Géza Ottlik (9 May 1912 – 9 October 1990) was a Hungarian writer, translator, mathematician, and bridge theorist. According to an American obituary bridge column, he was known in Hungary as "the ultimate authority on Hungarian prose". Bi ...

's '' Hajnali háztetők'' and

Ferenc Sánta Ferenc Sánta (September 4, 1927 – June 6, 2008) was a Hungarian novelist and film screenwriter. He was awarded the ''József Attila Prize'' in 1956 and 1964, and the prestigious ''Kossuth Prize'' in 1973.Iván Mándy Iván Mándy (23 December 1918 in Budapest – 6 October 1995 in Budapest) was a Hungary, Hungarian writer. Biography From 1945 on Mándy worked at the literary revue Újhold. After the Stalinist takeover he became a freelance writer. In 1989 he g ...

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, László Nagy,

Ágnes Nemes Nagy Ágnes Nemes Nagy (January 3, 1922 – August 23, 1991) was a Hungarian poet, writer, educator, and translator. She was born in Budapest and earned a teaching diploma from the University of Budapest. From 1945 to 1953, she was employed by t ...

, Ottó Orbán,

István Örkény István György Örkény (5 April 1912, Budapest – 24 June 1979, Budapest) was a Hungarian writer whose plays and novels often featured grotesque situations. He was a recipient of the Kossuth Prize in 1973. Biography He was born to a wealthy ...

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és Sándor Weöres is. After 1956, the publisher was "confiscated" from the association. Previously, the publisher's own shop, the Magvető bookstore on

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, also distributed the publisher's works. However, after the 1956 change of regime in Socialist Hungary, it merged into the network of the Libri book distribution company.

Management

The founder of Magvető was the secretary of the Writers' Association, Géza Képes, a poet and translator. Képes served as co-director of Magvető with

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also worked as a proofreader on the publisher's first volumes. The founding director had to leave Magvető in 1957 due to his activities during the

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, and was replaced by

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. In 1961, György Kardos became the head of the Magvető. Kardos previously served as a Lieutenant Colonel working in military intelligence for the

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(ÁVH). Kardos is the longest-serving director Magvető, having served for approximately 25 years. During his tenure as its director, Magvető became one of the most successful Hungarian publishing companies of the time. It published the works of many important writers including Berkesi András,

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, ,

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and

. However, it also launched the careers of many young writers who did not have the opportunity to publish elsewhere. Kardos was followed by critic

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and editor Mária Hegedős, respectively, as director of Magvető. In 1993, it transformed into a publishing company (kft.-vé). It was then purchased by Líra és Lant Kereskedelmi Rt. (now Líra Könyv Zrt.) and has been operating independently within the Líra publishing group ever since. From 1995 to 2015,

Géza Morcsányi Géza Morcsányi (28 August 1952 – 4 January 2023) was a Hungarian actor, dramaturg, translator, and university professor. His debut film role was as Endre in the 2017 drama film '' On Body and Soul'', the Hungarian entry for Best Foreign Lang ...

was the head of the publisher. Under Morcsányi's leadership, Magvető became one of the most prestigious Hungarian fiction publishers, where the works of the most prestigious Hungarian authors of the turn of the millennium were published, including

Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...

, the only Hungarian recipient of the

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. Magvető is a member of the (MKKE). Magvető was presented the MKKE's "Publisher of the Year" award in 2003, 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2013. Dankó utca 4, 2018 Józsefváros

From March 2015 to June 2016, Magvető was led by Krisztián Nyáry, who then continued his work as the creative director of Líra Könyv Zrt. He was succeeded on 1 July 2016 by , formerly Editor-in-Chief, as director of the publisher. The longest-serving employee of the publisher was Györgyi Bezúr, a technical manager who worked continuously at Magvető from 1961 to the end of 2016.

Series and sales

Magvető published ' (1974–1994) and the series of books in the Rakéta Regénytár (popularly abbreviated as ''Ra-Re''; from 1978). Successful book series include ''Világkönyvtár'', ''Magvető Kiskönyvtár'' and ''Új Termés'', which introduces the first-volume poets. Successful book series include ''Világkönyvtár'', ''Magvető Kiskönyvtár'' and ''Új Termés'', which introduces the first-volume poets. Magvető also publishes the ''Gyorsuló idő'' educational series as well as the ' memoirs series. In 1963, Magvető launched ', which has been a defining annual anthology of contemporary poetry ever since. An anthology of the most important Hungarian novellas, entitled ''Körkép'', has been published by Magvető since 1964. Within a decade after its founding, Magvető became one of the most influential Hungarian cultural institutions. In 1966, Magvető published more than two million copies. It continuously increased its output over time and, in 1981, Magvető published 5.4 million books. Today, it published a total of 6.4 million of the entire Hungarian literary book production.

Authors

Among the poets, Ferenc Juhász's collection of poetry entitled ''A virágok hatalma'' was published by Magvető in 1955. Cartoonist Tibor Kaján's book entitled ''Kaján rajzok'' was also published by Magvető in 1955. It also published

's volume of short stories entitled ''A hazudós'' in 1958. In addition to publishing the works of Hungarian writers already recognized by critics and the public audience, Magvető also focuses on publishing the debut works of young talented writers who are early in their careers, and promotes the continued output of these writers. Among others, Magvető publishes the works of Tibor Babiczky, Péter Bognár, Renátó Fehér, Ákos Győrffy, Lili Kemény, Noémi Kiss, Tibor Noé Kiss, , András Maros, Koppány Zsolt Nagy,

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, Csaba Székely, Petra Szőcs,

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, Benedek Totth. The honours the best Hungarian contemporary fiction from the previous year. In 2015, 77 works of fiction were nominated for the 10th anniversary of the AEGON Art Award. Based on the decision of the jury, the works of ten authors advanced to the second round, eight of which were published by Magvető. As of 2020, the award has been won by 11 books published by Magvető since the award's inception in 2006: * 2006 – ''Fogság'' by

György Spiró György (George) Spiró (born 4 April 1946 in Budapest) is a dramatist, novelist and essayist who has emerged as one of post-war Hungary's most prominent literary figures. He is a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts. Life ...

* 2007 – ''Visszaút az időben'' by

Zsuzsa Rakovszky Zsuzsa Rakovszky (born 4 December 1950) is a Hungarian translator and writer. Her surname also appears as Rakovsky. She was born in Sopron and earned a teaching certificate in Hungarian and English from the School of English and American Studi ...

* 2008 – ''Asztalizene'' by János Térey * 2009 – ''Önkéntes vak. Versek, 2006–2007'' by Tamás Jónás * 2011 – ''Esti'' by

Péter Esterházy Péter Esterházy (14 April 1950 – 14 July 2016) was a Hungarian writer. He was one of the best known Hungarian and Central European writers of his era. He has been called a "leading figure of 20th century Hungarian literature", his books being ...

* 2012 – ''Mellettem elférsz'' by Krisztián Grecsó * 2014 – ''Boldog észak. Aimé Billion mesél'' by Árpád Kun * 2016 – ''Távozó fa. Versek, 2005–2014'' by Imre Oravecz * 2017 – ''

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming ''Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming'' ( hu, Báró Wenckheim hazatér) is a 2016 novel by László Krasznahorkai. Originally published in Hungarian by Magvető, it was later translated to English by Ottilie Mulzet and published in 2019 by New Direc ...

'' by

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* 2019 – ''A Vak Remény'' by Zsuzsa Takács * 2020 – ''Jól láthatóan lógok itt'' by Ádám Nádasdy Magvető publishes the most Hungarian authors from abroad: after Budapest, most Magvető writers were born or raised in

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, Romania.

was Magvető's oldest published author, having published all of his works since the beginning of his career in the 1970s. As of 2015, the oldest active author of Magvető is

, 85, and the youngest is Lili Kemény, 22. Magvető continuously publishes several 20th-century Hungarian classical literature or other major works, including the works of Géza Csáth, Péter Hajnóczy,

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Gyula Krúdy Gyula Krúdy (21 October 1878 – 12 May 1933) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Biography Gyula Krúdy was born in Nyíregyháza, Austria-Hungary. His father was a lawyer and his mother was a maid working for the Krúdy family. His ...

Alexander Lenard Alexander Lenard ( hu, Lénárd Sándor; la, Alexander Lenardus; Budapest, 9 March 1910 – Dona Emma, Brazil, 13 April 1972) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian physician, writer, translator, painter, musician, poet and occasional language instru ...

, Ottó Orbán,

György Petri György Petri (22 December 1943 – 16 July 2000) was a Hungarian poet. Childhood and youth He was born in 1943 to a multi-ethnic family in Budapest. After his father's death he was raised by his mother, grandparents and aunts. According to his ...

, Szilárd Rubin,

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Antal Szerb Antal Szerb (1 May 1901, Budapest – 27 January 1945, Balf) was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the major Hungarian writers of the 20th century. Life and career Szerb was born in 1901 to assimilate ...

and

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. When publishing translations of contemporary works of

, Magvető selects works of the same quality that its readers are accustomed to and expect from in the field of classical and contemporary Hungarian literature. Some major foreign works Magvető has published includes works by

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and

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Magvető Café

On 11 April 2017, Magvető opened a

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named Magvető Café on Dohány Street in Budapest. It serves as a meeting place for authors and readers. Books published by Magvető are sold inside. The café serves coffee, wines and breakfast.

Directors

* Géza Képes and

(1955–1957) *

(1957–1961) * György Kardos (6 October 1961 – 1986) *

(1986–1990) * Mária Hegedős (1990–1993) *

(1995–2015) * Krisztián Nyáry (2015–2016) * Anna Dávid (2016–)

Book series

* Gyorsuló idő (English, "Accelerating Time") –

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series (since 1975) * Harminc év (English, "Thirty Years") – the most significant works of post-

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Hungarian literature Hungarian literature is the body of written works primarily produced in Hungarian,

(up to 1980, jointly with Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó) * Időmérték (English, "Timeline") * Körkép (English, "Panorama") – anthology of novellas * Magvető Kiskönyvtár (English, "Magvető Small Library") * Magvető novellárium (English, "Magvető Short Story") * Magvető Remekírók (English, "Magvető Great Writers") *

Magvető Zsebkönyvtár Magvető is a Hungarian book publishing company based in Budapest. It primarily publishes domestic and international works of literary fiction. History Magvető was established in 1955 as a publisher of the Magyar Írók Szövetsége (now the ...

(English, "Magvető Pocket Library") * Milleniumi Könyvtár (English, "Millennium Library") * Nemzet és emlékezet (English, "Nation and Memory") * (English, "From Idea to Movie") * és Rakéta Regénytár (English, "Rocket Novel Newspaper" and "Rocket Novel") * Rivalda – anthology of plays * Szép versek (English, "Beautiful Poems") – anthology of poetry * Tények és tanúk (English, "Facts and Witnesses") – autobiographies, memoirs * Új Termés (English, "New Crop") – first-volume poetsÚj Termés
worldcat.org. Retrieved 16 February 2021. * Világkönyvtár (English, "World Library") – contemporary works of

Notable publications

Tibor Déry Tibor Déry (18 October 1894 in Budapest – 18 August 1977 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer and poet. He also wrote under the names Tibor Dániel and Pál Verdes. György Lukács praised Dery as being "the greatest depicter of human b ...

: ''Niki: The Story of a Dog'' (1956) *

: ''School at the Frontier'' (1959) *

: ''Rozsdatemető'' (1962) *

Ferenc Sánta Ferenc Sánta (September 4, 1927 – June 6, 2008) was a Hungarian novelist and film screenwriter. He was awarded the ''József Attila Prize'' in 1956 and 1964, and the prestigious ''Kossuth Prize'' in 1973.Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...

: ''

Fatelessness ''Fateless'' or ''Fatelessness'' ( hu, Sorstalanság, ) is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1960 and 1973 and first published in 1975. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story about a 14- ...

''(1975) *

: ''Termelési-regény (kisssregény)'' (1979) *

: '' Satantango'' (1985) * László Krasznahorkai: ''

The Melancholy of Resistance ''The Melancholy of Resistance'' ( hu, Az ellenállás melankóliája) is a 1989 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. The narrative is set in a restless town where a mysterious circus, which exhibits a whale and nothing else, cont ...

'' (1989) * Péter Esterházy: ''Harmonia cælestis'' (2000) *

Attila Bartis Attila Bartis (born 1968) is a Romanian-born Hungarian writer, photographer, dramatist and journalist. He received the Attila József Prize in 2005. His books have been translated into over 20 different languages. In 2001, he published his second ...

: ''

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'' (2001) * László Krasznahorkai: ''

'' (2016) * Zsuzsa Takács: ''A Vak Remény'' (2018)

Notable authors

Zsófia Bán Zsófia Bán (born September 23, 1957, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a writer, literary historian, essayist and art and literature critic. Personal life Zsófia Bán grew up in Rio de Janeiro as the child of Jewish parents. In 1969, she and her fa ...

László Bertók László () is a Hungarian language, Hungarian male given name and surname after the King-Knight Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (1077–1095). It derives from Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav. Other versions are Lessl or Laszly. The name has a histo ...

Ádám Bodor Ádám Bodor (born 22 February 1936 in Cluj) is a Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin. Life and writing Bodor was born in Romania to a staunchly anti-communist father and was himself an anti-communist. In his youth he believed i ...

* Ildikó Boldizsár * Centauri *

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András Cserna-Szabó András () is a Hungarian masculine given name, the Hungarian form of ''Andrew''. Notable people with the name include: * András Ádám-Stolpa (born 1921), Hungarian tennis player * András Adorján (born 1950), Hungarian writer * András Ágosto ...

* László Darvasi * György Dragomán * Virág Erdős *

* László Garaczi *

Krisztián Grecsó Krisztián Grecsó (born 18 May 1976) is a Hungarian writer, poet and editor. Biography Grecsó was born in Szegvár on 18 May 1976. His younger brother, , is a dancer and choreographer. He graduated from the in Csongrád. In 2001, he received ...

* Péter György * Viktor Horváth * Péter Kántor *

István Kemény István () is a Hungarian language equivalent of the name Stephen or Stefan. It may refer to: People with the given name Nobles, palatines and judges royal * Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first ki ...

* András Ferenc Kovács *

Dénes Krusovszky Dénes is a Hungarian male given name, the equivalent of Denis in English and can sometimes stand for or replace the feminine version of Den(n)is, namely ''Denise''. As with many given names, it also transitioned into a surname in the Middle Ages. ...

Árpád Kun Árpád (; 845 – 907) was the head of the confederation of the Magyar tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. He might have been either the sacred king, sacred ruler or ''kende'' of the Hungarians, or their military lea ...

* Júlia Lángh *

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Ádám Nádasdy Ádám Nádasdy (born 15 February 1947) is a Hungarian linguist and poet. He is professor emeritus at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He specializes in po ...

* Ottó Orbán *

Lajos Parti Nagy Lajos Parti Nagy (born Szekszárd, October 12, 1953) is a Kossuth Prize-winning Hungarian poet, playwright, writer, editor, critic, and one of the founding members of the Digital Literary Academy. Biography Nagy spent his childhood at Tolna, ...

* Anna T. Szabó * Balázs Szálinger *

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* László Szilasi *

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* Zsuzsa Takács * Krisztina Tóth *

Dániel Varró Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew language, Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel (given ...

Pál Závada Pál Závada (born 14 December 1954 in Tótkomlós, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to ...

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