Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:55:53 +0200https://english.radio.cz/hungarian-modern-classic-translated-roma-dialect-8086006© 2026 Radio Prague International The famous novel "Fatelessness" by Hungary's Nobel-prize winning author, Imre Kertesz, is now also available in the Lovary language, the most widespread dialect among the Roma community in Hungary. The novel is about life in a World War Two concentration camp, and is translated by the renowned Romany poet and compiler of a Lovary-Hungarian dictionary, Gyorgy Rostas Farkas. The translation was launched on Holocaust Memorial Day. At around 12 million the Roma are the biggest minority in the enlarged Europe, and the Lovary dialect is so widely spoken, that the Hungarian Minister for Equal Opportunities, Katalin Levai, recently proposed in Brussels that it become an official EU language. Petra Hajdu of Radio Budapest talked to Katalin Levai. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/kertesz_imre.jpg?timestamp=1590292769 https://english.radio.cz/hungarian-modern-classic-translated-roma-dialect-8086006 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9