Orbánland – a new book about Hungary

A Danish journalist has written a new book about Hungary titled Orbánland.

The author, Lasse Skytt, has lived in Hungary for more than five years, working as an independent foreign correspondent based in Budapest and Debrecen. As he was writing the book, gradually Viktor Orbán went from being a Hungarian politician to a European politician, and his ideas spread from Hungary to the rest of Europe and around the world.

“Before I came, I heard so many things about Hungary and Viktor Orbán, and I couldn’t believe everything I read in the mainstream media to be true. So I decided to move here to understand what was really going on. It turned out that I learned as much about the Hungarians as I learned about myself”, he explains.