Julia Sherwood writes in Asymptote about the Visegrad Café project of Éva Karádi and Szilvia Szarka:

“During the happier months when Covid restrictions were relaxed or lifted, organizers of another Central European literary project managed to pull off an ambitious programme of twelve events between June and November. Showcasing writers from the four “Visegrad countries” (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia), Visegrad Café was conceived by literary organizers Éva Karádi and Szilvia Szarka with Wilhelm Droste of the Budapest-based Három Holló/Drei Raben (Three Crows) Foundation to celebrate the coffeehouse culture of Central Europe through readings and discussions. Held in literary cafés in Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Kraków, Prague, and Štúrovo on the Danube, on the Slovak and Hungarian border, and organized in conjunction with local literary festivals and institutions, the discussions aimed to raise the awareness among the locals of the literatures of the other countries. Each event featured four leading writers discussing their own and each other’s work. The participating writers included Sylvie Richterová, Irena Dousková, and Vojtěch Němec, as well as past Asymptote contributors Radka Denemarková and Dora Kaprálová from the Czech Republic. Poland was represented by Lidia Amejko, Maciej Topolski, Magdalena Grzebałkowska, and past contributor Marcin Wicha. Slovakia was represented by Karol Chmel, Katarína Kucbelová, Silvester Lavrík, Pavol Rankov, Veronika Šikulová, and past Asymptote contributor Jana Beňová; and Hungary by Pál Závada, Viktor Horváth, László Garaczi, Ildikó Noémi Nagy, Judit Szaniszló, Gábor Németh, Virág Erdős, and Edina Szvoren.”

The full version of the text can we read on the website of Asymptote.