Guide to Hungarian literature

Supported by the Embassy of Hungary, the project is published on the website Arzamas and features 30 outstanding Hungarian authors.

The Hungarian literature has travelled a long way to the Russian readers. Each new Hungarian book we had was a stroke of luck. Only in the late 20^th century did we delve into the Hungarian literature.

Oksana Yakimenko, a senior lecturer at SPbU

The Hungarian literature, as Oksana Yakimenko puts it, is a coding system that remain unknown to the Russian readers. The guide features the best authors of the late 19^th-early 20^th centuries: some of them are well known in Russian, some have just been translated.   

“The Hungarian literature is difficult to understand, — said Oksana Yakimenko, — unless you know something about how the country has been evolving throughout the 20^th century that turned out be a time of hardship for Hungary”.

In 2018, SPbU and the University of Pécs signed an agreement in collaboration in language testing to hold ECL. Before that, SPbU and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary had signed a direct agreement on collaboration.

Each article features information about a book, its author, and place in the literature, culture, and history of Hungary.

In 2015, SPbU Rector Nikolay Kropachev and Ambassador of Hungary to the Russian Federation János Balla signed an agreement that opened new opportunities to study the Hungarian language and culture at the University.

St Petersburg University offers a graduate programme in Culture and Arts of Hungary that focuses on literature, arts, philosophy, religion, politics, and history of Hungary.

SPbU also offers an undergraduate programme in Linguistics where students can learn the Hungarian language and culture and a graduate programme in Theory and History of Language and Languages of European Nations that has a field of study Hungarian Language and Translation.