5-day Hay Festival opens in Budapest

The five-day literary and arts Hay Festival opened for the second year in Budapest on Friday. At the opening, US ambassador to Hungary Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis said the 26-year-old festival has become very popular in the United States, and the Budapest event has three American guests this year. Among them are bestselling novelist Nicole Krauss and investigative journalist Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame. Also featuring in Budapest are mathematician Marcus du Sautoy and literary translator George Szirtes.