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 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 2 3 4 5 6 "Élet és Irodalom". Euro Topics. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- 1 2 Rita M. Csapo-Sweet; Ildiko Kaposi (Spring 1999). "Mass Media in Post-Communist Hungary". International Communications Bulletin 34 (1-2). Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ 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. Retrieved 27 November 2014.