The Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts (, ) was created in 1992 as an academy associated yet independent from the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

. It is intended to be the national academy of artists and writers, who could be elected to the HAS until the 1949 reforms. The president is

Károly Makk Károly Makk (December 22, 1925 – August 30, 2017) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Five of his films were nominated for the ''Palme d'Or'' at the Cannes Film Festival; however, he won lesser awards at Cannes and elsewhere. He w ...

, film director. Earlier it was László Dobszay (resignedLemond a Széchenyi Irodalmi és Művészeti Akadémia két vezetője
MTI on April 20, 2011).

Notable members

* Eva Haldimann, swiss literary critic and translator from Hungarian into German * Gyula Csapó, composer * László Dobszay, music historian *

Miklós Jancsó Miklós Jancsó (; 27 September 192131 January 2014) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Jancsó achieved international prominence starting in the mid-1960s with works including ''Szegénylegények, The Round-Up'' ...

, film director *

Zoltán Jeney Zoltán Jeney (4 March 1943 – 28 October 2019) was a Hungarian composer. Jeney was born in Szolnok, Hungary. He first studied piano and attended Pongrácz's composition classes at the Debrecen Secondary Music School, later continuing compositi ...

, composer * Ferenc Juhász, poet * Károly Klimó, painter, graphic *

Zoltán Kocsis Zoltán Kocsis (; 30 May 1952 – 6 November 2016) was a Hungarian pianist, conducting, conductor and composer. Biography Studies Born in Budapest, he began his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conser ...

, pianist-conductor * György Konrád, writer *

György Kurtág György Kurtág (; born 19 February 1926) is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. According to ''Grove Music Online'', with a style that draws on " Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky, his work is c ...

, composer * Dora Maurer, visual artist *

Péter Nádas Péter Nádas (born 14 October 1942) is a Hungarian writer, playwright, and essayist. Biography He was born in Budapest into a Jewish family, the son of László Nádas (originally Nussbaum) and Klára Tauber. After the takeover of the Hung ...

, writer * György Spiró, writer *

István Szabó István Szabó (; born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director. Szabó is one of the most notable Hungary, Hungarian filmmakers and one who has been best known outside the Hungarian language, Hungarian- ...

, film director *

Magda Szabó Magda Szabó (5 October 1917 – 19 November 2007) was a Hungarians, Hungarian novelist. Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the , an online dig ...

, writer *

László Vidovszky László Vidovszky (born Békéscsaba, Hungary, 25 February 1944) is a Hungary, Hungarian composer and pianist. During the 1970s he began composing works in a minimalist music, minimal style. His music has been influential on the music of Györ ...

, composer

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