Address of Publishing House: Year of Foundation: 1993 ISBN: (963) 676 Based in the south-western town of Pécs, Jelenkor {Present Time} publishes mainly contemporary Hungarian literature. It is the exclusive Hungarian publisher of numerous authors - among them Péter Nádas, György Petri, Miklós Mészöly, László F. Földényi, László Darvasi, Endre Kukorelly, László Márton and Lajos Parti Nagy. It also produces editions of contemporary foreign literary and philosophical works in translation. Its series include: Living Literature - a forum for contemporary Hungarian literature, Ars Longa - which covers essays, studies and illustrated monographs on the arts, Dianoia - which presents contemporary Western philosophy (R. Rorty, J. Derrida), Moments of a century - containing memoirs and recollections, Little Europe - a forum for contemporary European literature (from Dinescu through Nooteboom to J-P. Toussaint), and the JAK Literary Translators’ Handbooks - presenting the work of young literary translators.
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