Giorgio Pressburger - Hungarian-born Italian writer, journalist, literary translator, dramatist, director, former director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest.
Thanks to the donation of Italian film director Mauro Caputo, the institution has been enriched with a diverse legacy, including film documents, photographs and personal items. The Imre Kertész Institute, operated since January 2017 by the Public Foundation for the Research of Central and Eastern European History and Society, manages, in addition to the works of our Nobel Prize-winning author, Arthur Koestler, Petri György and János Pilinszky, as well as the entire estate of János Sziveri. The aim of the Institute is to collect, process and publish the author's legacies and unpublished works, the literary materials about the authors, and to dignify the memory of the authors.
Source ujsagmuzeum.hu/Michael Powell (left) and Imre Pressburger. They made a wonderful couple./illustration
The Imre Kertész Institute has now been enriched with a selected part of the oeuvre of Giorgio Pressburger (1937–2017) thanks to a donation from the Italian film director Mauro Caputo, who based the short story of the Hungarian-born author on the works A fehér közök törvénde and A Müncheni óra, among others, but shot a film about Pressburger's adventurous life. also entitled Message to the Century.
Source: kultura.hu
An extremely versatile writer who never forgot his attachment to his native country, he carried the fate of Hungarian writers close to his heart and followed their careers. He translated several of Imre Kertész's works into Italian, and he wrote the obituary published in Corriere della Sera, one of the most prestigious Italian daily newspapers, upon the death of our Nobel Prize-winning writer. The collection of almost 90 items mainly consists of documents, personal items, scripts, photographs, but it also includes Pressburger's awards and certain pieces of his personal library, among other things, the Imre Kertész translation that he once gave to his daughter, as well as the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, which was received by Giorgio Pressburger in October 2002 in recognition of his work for the continuous nurturing and deepening of Hungarian-Italian cultural relations. The Imre Kertész Institute considers it a priority task to take care of the memory of György Pressburger and promote his work as widely as possible.
Source: MTI-OS
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