Élet és Irodalom

Élet és Irodalom (also known as ÉS; meaning Life and Literature in English) is a weekly Hungarian magazine about literature and politics.

Élet és Irodalom

Editor	Zoltán Kovács
Categories	Literary magazine Political magazine
Frequency	Weekly
First issue	15 March 1957 (1957-03-15)
Country	Hungary
Based in	Budapest
Language	Hungarian
Website	Élet és Irodalom
ISSN	0424-8848
OCLC	1567785

History and profile

Élet és Irodalom was first published as a literary magazine on 15 March 1957.[1] In the 1960s its content expanded to include issues of public life in addition to literature.[1] The magazine is published on Fridays and is based in Budapest.[1] It is regarded as, "the premier weekly of the Hungarian liberal literati."[2]

Élet és Irodalom was one of the independent publications in Hungary in the late 1990s.[3] The magazine is considered a postmodernist and politically left liberal[1] periodical, politically close to the left-wing parties such as Hungarian Socialist Party and Alliance of Free Democrats. The magazine offers investigative reports about the scandals occurred in the country.[3][4]

In the 1980s, the circulation of Élet és Irodalom was nearly 120,000 copies.[1] It was 27,000 copies in 2007.[1]

References

1. "Élet és Irodalom". Euro Topics. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
2. Molnár, V. (2016) Civil society, radicalism and the rediscovery of mythic nationalism. Nations and Nationalism, 22: 165–185. doi: 10.1111/nana.12126.
3. Rita M. Csapo-Sweet; Ildiko Kaposi (Spring 1999). "Mass Media in Post-Communist Hungary". International Communications Bulletin. 34 (1–2). Retrieved 27 December 2014.
4. Péter Bajomi-Lazar; Ágnes Lampe. "Invisible Journalism? The political impact of investigative journalism in Hungary" (PDF). Media Transformations. doi:10.7220/2029-865X.09.03. ISSN 2029-865X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.

External links

• Élet és Irodalom website