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The Book Institute supports the publication of the second volume of an anthology of Polish poetry translations into Serbian
The second volume of an anthology of translations of Polish poetry by Grzegorz Łatuszyński has been published in Serbia. The creation of the anthology entitled “Сто савремених пољских песника: Књига друга” (“One hundred contemporary Polish poets: Book Two”) was supported by the Book Institute under the ©POLAND Translation Programme.
Grzegorz Łatuszyński's anthology was published in Serbia by the Mali Nemo publishing house.
Grzegorz Łatuszyński was an eminent Slavist, translator, poet and prose writer who died in 2020. He was a tireless promoter of Polish culture in the Balkans and of Balkan culture - especially Balkan poetry - in Poland. In 2019, the President of the Republic of Serbia awarded him the Gold Medal for Merit. He has translated poems by more than 130 poets into Serbian and Croatian, including: Witold Wirpsza, Stanisław Swen Czachorowski, Anna Kamieńska, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Tadeusz Różewicz, Julia Hartwig, Tymoteusz Karpowicz, Tadeusz Borowski, Miron Białoszewski, Wisława Szymborska, Zbigniew Herbert, Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Halina Poświatowska, Edward Stachura, Ryszard Krynicki, Ewa Lipska, Bohdan Zadura, Rafał Wojaczek, Adam Zagajewski, Stanisław Barańczak, Andrzej Sosnowski and Tadeusz Dąbrowski.
The first volume of the anthology “Сто савремених пољских песника” was published in Serbia in 2019.