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Banned and restricted books in Hungary
19 titles have been banned or restricted in Hungary, recorded across 19 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
19
Ban events
19
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
6
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embers | Sándor Márai | 1942 | 1 |
| One Sentence About Tyranny | Gyula Illyés | 1950 | 1 |
| The Case Worker | György Konrád | 1969 | 1 |
| My Happy Days in Hell | György Faludy | 1962 | 1 |
| Niki: The Story of a Dog | Tibor Déry | 1956 | 1 |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 1949 | 1 |
| Heartstopper | Alice Oseman | 2018 | 1 |
| A Fairy Tale for Everyone | Boldizsár M. Nagy | — | 1 |
| The Carnival | Béla Hamvas | — | 1 |
| The City Builder | György Konrád | 1977 | 1 |
| A Worker in a Worker's State | Miklós Haraszti | 1975 | 1 |
| The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power | György Konrád, Iván Szelényi | 1979 | 1 |
| The Velvet Prison | Miklós Haraszti | 1981 | 1 |
| The Dukays | Lajos Zilahy | 1949 | 1 |
| Laughable Loves | Milan Kundera | 1969 | 1 |
| The Misery of the Small Eastern European States | István Bibó | 1946 | 1 |
| Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler | 1940 | 1 |
| Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth | 1969 | 1 |
| The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer | 1948 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 15
- Sexual content
- 2
- Immorality
- 1
By decade
1940s4
1950s4
1960s4
1970s4
1980s1
2020s2
Documented bans
All 19 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
A Fairy Tale for Everyone2020
The Velvet Prison1981
The City Builder1977–1989
The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power1974
A Worker in a Worker's State1973
Portnoy's Complaint1970
The Case Worker1969
Laughable Loves1968
My Happy Days in Hell1962
Niki: The Story of a Dog1957
Darkness at Noon1957
One Sentence About Tyranny1950
The Naked and the Dead1950
19841949
Embers1948
The Carnival1948–1989
The Misery of the Small Eastern European States1948
Heartstopper2023
The Dukays1968
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.