Kjell Westö and Tommi Kinnunen the interesting Finnish authors at the International Book Festival Budapest

The International Book Festival Budapest will be organized in the heart of the Hungarian capital between 23rd and 26th of April. This year the two Finnish authors visiting the festival will be Tommi Kinnunen, whose first book Where Four Roads Meet has been praised in Finland, and Kjell Westö who has been awarded with the Nordic Council Literature Prize as well as with Finland’s most prestigious literature prize Finlandia.

The center of the events at the International Book Festival Budapest is Millenáris event center at address Kis Rókus street 16-20.

Schedule of the Finnish authors at the book festival:

Friday 24th of April

10 – 11.30     
Development strategies, progress and regression in the recent past and present of Europe panel discussion
Európa Pont, Millenáris event center, Lövöház street 35., language: English

- Participants: Kjell Westö (Finland), Pavel Vilikovský (Slovakia), Alfonso Cruz (Portugal), György Dalos (Hungary), Noémi Szécsi (Hungary), Konrád György (Hungary) and Imre Barna (chair, Hungary)

14.30 – 16    
Development and inequalities in personal and social relations panel discussion
Európa Pont, Millenáris event center, Lövöház street 35., language: English

- Participants: Tommi Kinnunen (Finland), Iselin C. Hermann (Denmark), Sylwia Chutnik (Poland), Elisabeth van Nimegen (The Netherlands), Karin Peschka (Austria), Fabio Deotto (Italy), Réka Mán-Várhegyi (Hungary),
ja Anna Gács (chair, Hungary)

20 – 21       
Indie Booksellers’ Night
Tommi Kinnunen, how to debute in the literature world, languages: Finnish, Hungarian
Fuga, Petőfi Sándor utca 5., Budapest

Saturday 25th of April

11 – 12   
Book launch of Hungarian translations to Kjell Westö’s Mirage 38 (Hägring 38) and Where We Once Went (Där vi en gång gått)
Szabó Magda hall, Millenáris event center, Kis Rókus street 16-20

- Presenters: Katalin Mezey and Péter Váradi
- Participants: Kjell Westö, translators Béla Jávorszky and Péter Papolczky, interpreter Ildikó Haris and actors Balázs Lázár and Mariann Tallián
- Organizers: Írók Alapítványa – Széphalom and L’Harmattan Publishing

12.10       
Book signing with Kjell Westö
Nordic countries´stand B4, Millenáris event center, Kis Rókus street 16-20

16 – 17.30   
European First Novel Festival
Panel discussion, 90 min., language: English        
Ervin Lazar Hall, D-building, Millenáris event center, Kis Rókus street 16-20

- Participants: Tommi Kinnunen (Finland), Bouke Billiet (Belgium), Dora Čechova, (Czech Republic), Fabio Deotto (Italy), Franz Friedrich (Germany), Davorin Lenko (Slovenia), Karin Peschka (Austria), Bruno Viera Amaral (Portugal) and Tomáš Varga (Slovakia)