Péter Zilahy is one of Hungary’s most exciting, diverse writers. Originally a poet, he also writes prose, drama, essays, is a photographer and does live performances. He recently performed a sell-out show on New York’s Broadway. The polyglot author presently lives in Berlin, where he publishes essays in the biggest German papers, but he also writes pieces for The Guardian, The Financial Times and The New York Times. The Last Window Giraffe was first published in 1998, and has since been translated into more than 20 languages. It’s won multiple awards, as well as having been adapted into an interactive CD-ROM and a live stage performance. The Last Window Giraffe describes the world of the seventies and eighties in a playful form. It is a book of a whole generation and is based on a children's dictionary which was entitled Window-Giraffe (Ablak-Zsiráf, Ablak=Window being the first item and Zsiráf=Giraffe being the last item in this A to Z). It is also a great book if you want to know more about Hungary and Hungarians and offers an insight into a world behind the Iron Curtain that you don’t need to come at armed with a prior knowledge of the region’s history. The book also describes the events of the Carnival-like protest of Belgrade 1996-97 as being symbolic of all protests in its courage and absurdity. The Last Window Giraffe is a lexicon of what's been left out. Join us for a bit of reading, a bit of performance. Anything could happen, from A-to-Z. at Discover Budapest/Treehugger Dan’s Lazar u. 16, Free Entry http://www.zilahy.net/