The Polish Book Institute

In Slovenia, a translation of the book Nakarmić kamień (“To Feed a Stone”) has recently been published. The book was translated by Janž Snoj. The publication of Bronka Nowicka's work has been supported by the Book Institute as part of the ©POLAND Translation Programme.

The book Nahraniti kamen, which is the title of the Slovenian edition of the book, has been recently published by Kulturno-umetniško društvo Logos publishing house in Ljubljana.

Nike's Award-winning collection of poetic prose, To Feed a Stone is a perpetual exploration of the essence of things. The world presented by Nowicka has not yet grown into secondary meanings, so it particularly affects imagination, creating its own cause and effect sequences and its own logic. The author penetrates the relationships between people and things, questions and undermines the existing hierarchies, balances on the border between the body and the outside world. For the poet, the relationship between man and thing is also a basis to make presence of the dead, remembered and "detained" in objects. It is a strong, fresh debut in Polish literature.