Anna Juhász, a literary curator and Prima Prize–winning cultural organizer, is taking books, reading, and culture on the road across multiple venues and towns in 2026. Her mission: to make literature a communal experience. She brings together the country’s sharpest thinkers and most popular creators to spark shared reflection, insisting that literature is a worldview.
Debrecen: Mihály Fazekas 260
Tue, January 6, 2026, 7:00 PM
CSOKONAI LOUNGE (Csokonai Társalgó): Mihály Fazekas 260 – Anna Juhász’s stage series
Guests:
– János Géczi, poet and visual artist
– István Orosz, graphic artist and animated film director
– Katalin Bódi, literary historian
– Klári Varga, actor, cast member of Mattie the Goose-boy (Lúdas Matyi)
Host-editor: Anna Juhász, the creator behind Hungary’s largest literary series. The evening revisits the legacy of Mihály Fazekas with contemporary voices from poetry, visual arts, theater, and scholarship, drawing a lively line from classic satire to today’s cultural imagination.
Debrecen: The Stag-Boy Epic on Stage
Sat, January 31, 2026, 7:00 PM
Csokonai National Theatre
Miklós H. Vecsei and QJÚB: The Boy Changed into a Stag Crying Out at the Gates of Secrets (A szarvassá változott fiú kiáltozása a titkok kapujából)
Concert-theater performance and literary talk
Ferenc Juhász’s monumental poem unleashes a mythic, visionary journey through human fate, historical tragedy, and the mysteries of creation. The stag transformation—symbol of freedom and escape—holds ruin and rebirth at once. It’s less a text than a total experience, its rhythm and imagery lodging deep in memory. Part one features a literary conversation with writer-poet János Háy, poet János Áfra, and Anna Juhász.
Cast: Bori Hegedűs, Miklós H. Vecsei, Jakab Frimmel, Viktor Paczári, Ábel Mihalik, Huba Ratkóczi. Visuals: Ábel Visky. Director: Miklós H. Vecsei.
Budapest: Géza Bereményi Turns 80
Thu, February 5, 2026, 7:00 PM
MOMkult Theatre Hall, Csörsz Street 18, Budapest 1124
A birthday evening with guest artists, literary and musical performances. Géza Bereményi—Kossuth and Balázs Béla Prize–winning writer, lyricist, screenwriter, and director—turns 80 in January 2026. Author of the iconic Tamás Cseh lyrics, the films Eldorado and The Bridge Man (Hídember), and countless scripts, plays, stories, and novels, he captured the raw realities of the ’70s–’80s and the regime change with sparkling clarity and biting wit. Friends and peers salute him.
Host-editor: Anna Juhász. Participants: Géza Bereményi, Can Togay, András Cseh, Endre Kertész, Miklós H. Vecsei, Huba Ratkóczi, Balázs Szabó, Róbert Hrutka, Dorottya Udvaros, György Cserhalmi.
Organizers reserve the right to change dates and programs.
Dates: 2026.01.06., 2026.01.31., 2026.02.05.
