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31.10.2022

Bedside table #78. Łukasz Barys: I want to write books that won’t be a seasonal fad

Łukasz Barys, prose writer and poet, winner of the 'Polityka' Passport Award for his debut novel Kości, które nosisz w kieszeni (“Bones You Carry in Your Pocket”), talks about his new book due to be published soon, reveals when he feels like playing shepherd, he also talks about the writers he is inspired by, hipster debuts, and his latest reading delights.

27.10.2022

Tags: ©POLAND Translation Programme, Emilia Dziubak, Polly Lawson, Przemysław Wechterowicz, translation

"Na zawsze przyjaciele" by Przemysław Wechterowicz and Emilia Dziubak translated into English

A translation of the children's book Na zawsze przyjaciele by Przemysław Wechterowicz and Emilia Dziubak has been published in the UK. The publication of the book translated by Polly Lawson was supported by the Book Institute as part of the ©POLAND Translation Programme.

27.10.2022

Tags: Adam Mickiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Institute in Berlin

Installation “The Romantic" at the Polish Institute in Berlin celebrating the Year of Polish Romanticism

Since 18^th October, the multimedia installation 'The Romantic' has been on display at the Polish Institute in Berlin. The project of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute is part of the celebrations of the Year of Polish Romanticism and it honours the 200^th anniversary of the first edition of Adam Mickiewicz’s Ballady i romanse (“Ballads and Romances”), considered to be the symbolic beginning of Romanticism in Polish literature.