Anna Varga Honored with Hungarian Book Award

Society member Anna Varga, who twice received a Carson Fellowship, has been prized with the 2024 Beautiful Hungarian Book Award by the Hungarian Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Association for her 2024 monograph A vadon legeltetése: Fás legelők, erdei legeltetés és pásztorvilág a Bakony és a Balaton vidékén és azon túl (Shepherding the wild: Wood pastures, forest grazing, and pastoralism in the region of Bakony and Balaton in Hungary and beyond), published by Veszprém Megyei Honismereti Egyesület. The award ceremony took place during the opening night of the ninety-sixth Festive Book Week in Budapest in June 2025.