01.02.2021
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02.02.2021
Leipzig Book Fair cancelled for the second year in a row owing to the pandemic
Last year, the Leipzig Book Fair was cancelled a few days before it was due to start. This time, the bad news comes with more notice - this year's edition scheduled for the end of May has also been cancelled, reported the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Friday. The decision was announced by the fair director Oliver Zille.
01.02.2021
Bedside table #53. Marcel Woźniak: The inability to read everything is killing me
Marcel Woźniak, prose writer and biographer of Leopold Tyrmand, speaks about how much Tyrmand-the-legend has in common with reality, about the characters who live with him to this day, and he also reveals that he dreams of riding the bus from one terminal to the other, reading The Count of Monte Christo.
01.02.2021
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki wins the International Poetry Award of the City of Münster
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki's long list of literary achievements has been extended by a prestigious German distinction: the International Poetry Award granted by the city of Münster. The jury awarded the volume Norwids Geliebte, translated by Michael Zdgodzay and Uljana Wolf, which consisted of seventy-seven poems taken mainly from Kochanka Norwida (“Norwid's Lover”), nominated for the Nike Literary Award and published in 2014 by the Biuro Literackie publishing house. The book was published in German in 2019 with the support of the Book Institute’s ©Poland Translation Programme.
01.02.2021
Transatlantyk Award – nominations open
08.01.2021
