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The paper attempts to outline the reception of Zbigniew Herbert’s oeuvre in Hungary by presenting both common and divergent places in the reading strategies of the Polish poet’s works adopted by Hungarian critics and writers. Since his literary output gained there significant popularity, one of the article’s goals is to retrace the story of his wide fame among reading public and to point out the role of his literary works in moulding political consciousness. It also contains a description of Herbert’s relations with some key figures of cultural life in the aforementioned country, including such outstanding authors like László Nagy and Sándor Kányádi. Some of Zbigniew Herbert’s poems directly refer to real people and events, therefore the knowledge of context turns out to be essential in the interpretation process.