Big Read (Hungarian)

Big Read is the Hungarian version of the BBC Big Read.

The Big Read was imported into Hungary under the name "A Nagy Könyv" (lit. "The Big Book") and took place in 2005. [http://www.anagykonyv.hu/] Around 1400 libraries, 500 book shops and 1300 schools participated in the competition in various ways. It proved to be far more popular in Hungary (with a population of 10 million) than in the UK (with a population of 60 million), with 400,000 votes arriving (as opposed to 140,000 votes in the UK competition in the corresponding period).Fact|date=June 2008

Voting for the top 100 began in late February: one was allowed to vote for any novel published in Hungarian. It ended on April 23, when the 50 "foreign" and 50 Hungarian most popular novels were selected.

On June 11, the top 12 novels were chosen in the framework of a television show presented by cultural celebrities. In the next months, 12 short films were made from these novels and screened in television, which competed with each other in pairs.

On December 15, the population selected their ultimate favourite by SMS and phone. The winning novel, which received the title "the most liked novel of Hungary 2005", was the same book as the result of the previous round, "Eclipse of the Crescent Moon". The other two books that participated in the final were "The Paul Street Boys" and "Abigail".

Initial Top 12

# "Eclipse of the Crescent Moon" (literally "Stars of Eger") by Géza Gárdonyi
# "The Paul Street Boys" by Ferenc Molnár
# "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
# "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne
# "The Little Prince" by A. de Saint-Exupéry
# "Abigail" by Magda Szabó
# "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J. K. Rowling
# "Thorn Castle (Tüskevár)" by István Fekete
# "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell
# "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
# "The Man with the Golden Touch (Az arany ember)" by Mór Jókai
# "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez

Final Top 100

# "Eclipse of the Crescent Moon" by Géza Gárdonyi
# "The Paul Street Boys" by Ferenc Molnár
# "Abigail" by Magda Szabó
# "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell
# "The Man with the Golden Touch (Az arany ember)" by Mór Jókai
# "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne
# "The Little Prince" by A. de Saint-Exupéry
# "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
# "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J. K. Rowling
# "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
# "Thorn Castle (Tüskevár)" by István Fekete
# "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
# "Abel Alone" by Áron Tamási
# "The Baron's Sons" by Mór Jókai
# "The Railroad House About To Start" by Sándor Rideg
# "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J. K. Rowling
# "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
# "Be Faithful Unto Death" by Zsigmond Móricz
# "" by István Fekete
# "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
# "Lottie and Lisa" by Erich Kästner
# "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
# "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo
# "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
# "The Funtinel Witch" by Albert Wass
# "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" by J. K. Rowling
# "Fateless" by Imre Kertész
# "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas
# "The Treasure-Hunting Smock" by Ferenc Móra
# "Quo Vadis" by Henryk Sienkiewicz
# "Give Me Back My Mountains" by Albert Wass
# "Embers" by Sándor MáraiSources differ on the order of books ranked 32nd and 33rd.] [http://www.nol.hu/cikk/366224/ Népszabadság Online: Vonzódunk a mesékhez ] ] [ [http://index.hu/kultur/klassz/nk12152/ Index - Az Egri csillagok a kedvenc ] ] [http://www.bookline.hu/control/news?newsid=304 Bookline | Online Áruház ] ]
# "Pansy Violet" by Zsigmond Móricz
# "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
# "St. Peter's Umbrella" by Kálmán Mikszáth
# "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
# "Dirty Fred the Captain" by Jenő Rejtő
# "Slave of the Huns" by Géza Gárdonyi
# "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
# "The Lover of the Sun" by Sándor Dallos
# "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal
# "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
# "Anna Édes" by Dezső Kosztolányi
# "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
# "Thistle" by István Fekete
# "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
# "The 14-Carat Roadster" by Jenő Rejtő
#

"The Golden Brush" by Sándor Dallos
# "Lassie Come Home" by Eric Knight
# "Winnetou" by Karl May
# "Winter Grove" by István Fekete
# "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
# "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway
# "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
# "The Gold Coffin" by Ferenc Móra
# "The Black Town" by Kálmán Mikszáth
# "The Princess Diaries" by Meg Cabot
# "The Toth Family" by István Örkény
# "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
# "Stop Mommy Teresa!" by Zsuzsa Rácz
# "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco
# "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe
# "Death is My Trade" by Robert Merle
# "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown
# "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
# "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek
# "The Young Lions" by Irwin Shaw
# "The Sword and the Scythe" by Albert Wass
# "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett
# "Arch of Triumph" by Erich Maria Remarque
# "School at the Frontier" by Géza Ottlik
# "A Hungarian Nabob" by Mór Jókai
# "This Above All" by Eric Knight
# "Revulsion" by László Németh
# "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
# "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
# "A Journey Round My Skull" by Frigyes Karinthy
# "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
# "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez
# "The Book of Fathers" by Miklós Vámos
# "The Pendragon Legend" by Antal Szerb
# "Just Look at My Time" by Klára Fehér
# "Greg and the Dream-catchers" by Gyula Böszörményi
# "Malevil" by Robert Merle
# "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
# "Für Elise" by Magda Szabó
# "Journey by Moonlight" by Antal Szerb
# "Jadviga's Pillow" by Pál Závada
# "Ida's Novel" by Géza Gárdonyi
# "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann
# "An Old-fashioned Story" by Magda Szabó
# "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera
# "The Door" by Magda Szabó
# "The Confessions of a Haut-Bourgeois" by Sándor Márai
# "The Red Lion" by Mária Szepes
# "Joseph and His Brothers" by Thomas Mann
# "Do Not Be Afraid" by Anna Jókai
# "My Happy Days in Hell" by György Faludy
# "PetePite" by Gábor Nógrádi
# "Celestial Harmonies" by Péter Esterházy

Authors by number of novels in the Top 100

*Four novels: István Fekete, J. K. Rowling, Magda Szabó
*Three novels: Géza Gárdonyi, Ernest Hemingway, Mór Jókai, Albert Wass
*Two novels: Sándor Dallos, Alexandre Dumas, Eric Knight, Thomas Mann, Sándor Márai, Gabriel García Márquez, Robert Merle, Kálmán Mikszáth, Ferenc Móra, Zsigmond Móricz, Jenő Rejtő, Antal Szerb, Leo Tolstoy

References

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/ BBC Big Read website]