Korunk (meaning Our Age in English) is a Hungarian language monthly cultural-literary-scientific magazine published in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. [1]
Korunk was founded by László Dienes in Cluj-Napoca in 1926. [2] The magazine ceased publication in 1940, [3] and began publication in 1957. [2] In 1929 Gabor Gaal became its editor-in-chief. [2] Ernö Gáll is the long-term editor-in-chief of the magazine who served in the post between 1957 and 1984. [4]
The magazine has a Marxist political stance [3] and progressive literary approach. [2] It is published on a monthly basis. [5]
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