The Polish Book Institute

A translation of the collection of novellas Na drodze (“On the Way”) by Maria Konopnicka has been published in North Macedonia. The publication of the book was supported by the Book Institute as part of the ©POLAND Translation Programme.

The book was translated into Macedonian by Ilija Trajkovski. The translation was published by the Martina Commerce publishing house.

"On the Way" is a collection of Maria Konopnicka's novellas that have permanently entered the history of Polish literature and are known to generations of readers who read them as required school reading. The collection includes such texts as Dym (“Smoke”), Nasza szkapa (“Our Jade”), and Mendel Gdański (“Mendel of Gdansk”). Konopnicka's novellas - just like the works of Bolesław Prus, Eliza Orzeszkowa, or Henryk Sienkiewicz - are among the most outstanding works of Polish positivist novellas. The author was masterful in both capturing the beauty of intimate situations and describing the complex social processes characteristic of her time.