The subject of my doctoral thesis is the newspaper Bácsmegyei Napló and its role in the Hungarian literature in Vojvodina. The newspaper was published between 1903 and 1941
in Subotica. It played a truly important role from 1920 until it was discontinued in 1941, when it was considered the most important daily newspaper of the Hungarian minority in Vojvodina.
The beginnings of the Hungarian literature in Vojvodina can be traced back to the newspapers that took upon themselves the task of providing literature for the readers, to give
voice to the writers living there and to announce literary competitions to find talent. The Bácsmegyei Napló has not been the subject of any research, even though its literary
supplement, first published in 1928, gave space to a generation of writers who, with few exceptions, did not survive the Second World War, and their work is recorded only in this press organ. In addition to literary works, the newspaper sought to find talented young people
through competitions. Upon selecting the novels to be published in sequels, it was a priority to introduce authors from Vojvodina.
The editorial staff of the Bácsmegyei Napló also published anthologies and volumes, which was a of great importance to the Hungarian culture in Vojvodina in the period between
the two world wars.
The owner and the editor of the newspaper was Ferenc Fenyves; however, his work was overshadowed by his classmate Dezső Kosztolányi. The study of the newspaper is a
good opportunity to focus on his activities as a high school student, a budding journalist and an editor.
The dissertation is accompanied by a bibliography of nine thousand items. This is a list of works published in the literary supplement of the Bácsmegyei Napló, which contains
the works of authors from Vojvodina, still unknown until now, including novels of interest, as well as a list of reprints of the works of Hungarian authors, which can also be important sources of our literary history.
My thesis aims to examine the literary activity of a forgotten press organ, revealing hitherto unknown data on literary history.