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Albert Tezla, An Introductory Bibliography to the Study of Hungarian Literature (1964), and Hungarian Authors: A Bibliographical Handbook (1970), are annotated sources on items available from major U.S. and European book collections. Antal Szerb, Magyar irodalomtörténet, 6th ed. (1978), is an informative history, an earlier edition of which is available also in a German translation: Ungarische Literaturgeschichte, 2 vol. (1975). An exhaustive historical coverage is provided in István Sötér (ed.), A magyar irodalom története, 6 vol. (1964–66). Béla Pomogáts, Az újabb magyar irodalom, 1945–1981 (1982), is an informative critical study of 20th-century literature. In English, see D. Mervyn Jones, Five Hungarian Writers (1966), which gives a detailed analysis of the works of the writers Miklós Zrínyi, Kelemen Mikes, Mihály Vörösmarty, József Eötvös, and Sándor Petőfi. Tibor Klaniczay (ed.), A History of Hungarian Literature (1982; originally published in Hungarian, 1982), provides broad coverage. Lóránt Czigány, The Oxford History of Hungarian Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present (1984), is a comprehensive chronologically arranged work, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.
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- George Gömöri
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Tibor Klaniczay
Director, Institute of Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1984–92.
- Denis Sinor
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| Added a section on 21st-century Nobel Prize winners. | Oct 10, 2025 | ||
| Added a top question and media. | Oct 10, 2025 | ||
| Revised and expanded the Writing after 1945 section. | Jun 05, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Hungarian Literature. | Aug 06, 2010 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Hungarian Literature. | Aug 06, 2010 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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