The fifteenth edition of the Visegrad Summer School has attracted a significant number of candidates from diverse backgrounds. We have received 258 applications from 33 countries.

Imre Kertész (9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was a Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature.