Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts

The Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts (, ) was created in 1992 as an academy associated yet independent from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It is intended to be the national academy of artists and writers, who could be elected to the HAS until the 1949 reforms. The president is Károly Makk, film director. Earlier it was László Dobszay (resignedLemond a Széchenyi Irodalmi és Művészeti Akadémia két vezetője, MTI on April 20, 2011).

Notable members Eva Haldimann, swiss literary critic and translator from Hungarian into German Gyula Csapó, composer László Dobszay, music historian Miklós Jancsó, film director Zoltán Jeney, composer Ferenc Juhász, poet Károly Klimó, painter, graphic Zoltán Kocsis, pianist-conductor György Konrád, writer György Kurtág, composer Dora Maurer, visual artist Péter Nádas, writer György Spiró, writer István Szabó, film director Magda Szabó, writer László Vidovszky, composer

See also Hungarian Academy of Arts (Magyar Művészeti Akadémia)

References

External links homepage of the Széchenyi Academy