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
EditorZoltán Kovács
CategoriesLiterary magazine
Political magazine
FrequencyWeekly
First issue15 March 1957; 67 years ago (1957-03-15)
CountryHungary
Based inBudapest
LanguageHungarian
WebsiteÉlet és Irodalom
ISSN0424-8848
OCLC1567785

History and profile edit

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 edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Élet és Irodalom". Euro Topics. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. ^ Molnár, Virág (January 2016). "Civil society, radicalism and the rediscovery of mythic nationalism". Nations and Nationalism. 22 (1): 165–185. doi:10.1111/nana.12126.
  3. ^ a b Rita M. Csapo-Sweet; Ildiko Kaposi (Spring 1999). "Mass Media in Post-Communist Hungary". International Communications Bulletin. 34 (1–2). Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  4. ^ Péter Bajomi-Lazar; Ágnes Lampe (2013). "Invisible Journalism? The political impact of investigative journalism in Hungary". Media Transformations. 9. doi:10.7220/2029-865X.09.03. hdl:20.500.12259/31460.

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