Szabó L?rinc Foreign Language Library

Director of the Library?: Erika Pálfi

Do you work on the 1st floor of the former Doleschall Mansion monument building? Szabó L?rinc Library is available to users as a foreign language library, including a collection of nationalities.
There are more than 70,000 documents in the library. In addition to books, periodicals, language books and dictionaries, modern tools for language learning can also be used and borrowed: educational kits, language audio material.
In a separate section were placed foreign language books, picture dictionaries and storybooks for children.
In addition to the world languages, the rich selection of the library also helps to get to know the languages of many Central European and more distant countries.
Foreign language is important, especially English, German and French.

A Szabó L?rinc Account Library Depository Loud Library for the blind and visually impaired, borrow works of fiction and entertainment recorded on audio cassettes at the headquarters of the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired. It contains 16,000 audiobooks. The audio library has state-of-the-art computers with special software. The Hungarian-speaking screen reader program makes the text appearing on the screen audible.
Address: 3525 Miskolc, Jókai Mór u. 18.

Opening hours:

Tuesday-Thursday: 9.00-13.00

About our eponym
The library is named after the native of Miskolc, who remained in close contact with his native city even after his childhood spent here.
Exquisite essayist and critic; The scope of his studies ranges from the classics of world literature through Hungarian masters and contemporaries to issues of lyric theory. My translating life encompasses several literary genres.
L?rinc Szabó is one of the most outstanding figures in the history of Hungarian translation, for him regular translation work meant not only knowledge and joy, but also a source of bread-making. From the ancient composers to his contemporaries, he translated the works of almost every significant artist into Hungarian. (Translations on the Internet »)
He received the Attila József Prize in 1954 and the Kossuth Prize in 1957. From 1998 onwards the the Digital Literary Academy He became a posthumous member. The city of Miskolc named its literary prize after him.
The bronze portrait of Miklós Borsos was inaugurated on 7 August 1980 as the first public sculpture of L?rinc Szabó in the library bearing his name, then in another building. After the move, it was reopened in 1995 in the library's courtyard.
In the interior, Anikó Pusztáné Létay summons the eponymous poet to a terracotta port part.

About our programs
In the main hall there are regular lectures, book presentations, writer-reader meetings.
Our language clubs are open to language learners or those wishing to practise, and are free of charge for registered readers. In honor of Gábor Doleschall, the former owner of the building, a medicinal herb garden was established in the courtyard.

Our permanent programs

Every Tuesday at 3 p.m.
English Conversation Club
Driving: Dora Hultai

Every Thursday at 4 p.m.
French Conversation Club
Driving: Eva P. Kováts

Every Friday at 5 p.m.
German Conversation Club
Driving: Tünde of Türkiye

Every Week at 4 p.m.
Spanish Conversation Club
Driving: Maria Huszovszky of Hungary