Élet és Irodalom

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

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

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 weekly on Fridays and is based in Budapest.[1]

Élet és Irodalom was one of the independent publications in Hungary in the late 1990s.[2] 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.[2][3]

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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Élet és Irodalom". Euro Topics. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Rita M. Csapo-Sweet; Ildiko Kaposi (Spring 1999). "Mass Media in Post-Communist Hungary". International Communications Bulletin 34 (1-2). Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. Péter Bajomi-Lazar; Ágnes Lampe. "Invisible Journalism? The political impact of investigative journalism in Hungary". Media Transformations. doi:10.7220/2029-865X.09.03. ISSN 2029-865X. Retrieved 27 November 2014.

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