Author(s): L. Patrik BAKA

Title: A MAGYAR IFJÚSÁGI IRODALOM 2020-BAN

Source: P. Baka, A. Mészáros, Sz. Simon, A. Litovkina (eds.): 16th International Conference of J. Selye University. Language and Literacy Sections. Conference Proceedings

ISBN: 978-80-8122-508-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36007/5086.2025.43

Publisher: J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

PY, pages: 2025, 43-62

Published on-line: 2025

Language: hu

Abstract: HUNGARIAN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE IN 2020
The present study discusses Hungarian young adult literature of 2020 with a focus on its decisive works. We analyse works whose authors were nominated for or won The Author of the Young Adult Book of the Year prize: Gergely Huszti’s Mesteralvók viadala [Master- sleeper’s encounter], Tamás Rojik’s Szárazság [Drought], Éva Janikovszky’s Naplóm 1938–1944 [My diary 1938–1944], Fanni Balássy’s Hol is kezdjem [Where do I start] and the prize-winning Ildikó Lipták’s Csak neked akartunk jót [We just wanted good for you]. Within the corpus of the investigated works two strong genre-based tendencies prevail: speculative fiction and the updated girl novel. These narratives, which work with diverse time techniques, highly bear the effects of visual culture and have an intermedial nature at numerous places of the text. A common experience of the works is that the knowledge and references of their narrators do not build on classical (literary), but on popular (film, gamer) culture, which they reflect upon as well. A common novel-poetic feature of the works is the self-reflective nature of the language use of their protagonists, which not only mirrors their characters, but also the peculiarities of their world.

Keywords: Hungarian young adult literature 2020, contemporary girl novel, speculative fiction, intermediality, self-reflective novel-poetics.

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