Péter Nádas (1942) is one of the greatest masters of prose of our era, many of whose works have been translated into English. His monumental Book of Memories (1986, trans. 1997) has been described as a novel of consciousness transposed into the Socialist universe. His latest volume in English is a collection of short stories and essays entitled Fire and Knowledge (2007). János Térey (1970) is arguably the most prolific and dynamic creative artist in Hungarian literature today. His energy and drive have repeatedly proved able to bring up to date and breathe new life into poetic genres that were forgotten and believed dead. His Nibelung Residential Park (2004) is a modern remake of Wagner’s Ring cycle; his Table Music (2008) is a bourgeois parlour drama set among the members of Budapest’s high society. László Garaczi (1956) established his status in the 80s as one of the most radical exponents of new Hungarian prose and an iconic figure of Budapest nightlife. His latest novel MetaXa (2006) mimics the rambling, incoherent, tormented mind of a patient at a psychiatric ward, in an extraordinarily disciplined text. His play Plasma (2008) is currently performed in three theaters in Budapest. Zsófia Bán (1957) is a writer of essays and reviews on literature, art and visual culture. Her first work of fiction, Night School: A Reader for Adults (2007), is a volume of short stories that ironically imitates the genre and appearance of a school reader, accompanied by mock illustrations and a punch line of questions or assignments.
Eszter Babarczy (1966) is chiefly known in Hungary as a political commentator and analyst, but lately she started writing literary pieces after being approached by the editor of a 2008 collection of short stories and essays on the female body (Thirsty Oasis). These pieces were described as exceptionally honest, poetically brutal, written with the intimate knowledge of a woman but the mind of a man. | 
