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02.03.2020

Tags: ©POLAND Translation Programme, English, Jakub Żulczyk, Marek Kazmierski, translation

Jakub Żulczyk’s ”Ślepnąc od świateł” in English with the support of the Book Institute

The translation of Jakub Żulczyk's novel Ślepnąc od świateł (“Blinded by the Lights”) will soon be published in Great Britain. The translation by Marek Kazmierski was supported by the Book Institute as part of the ©POLAND Translation Programme.

27.02.2020

Tags: ©POLAND Translation Programme, Czech, Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki, Italian, Jiří Červenka, Marzena Borejczuk, translation

Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki in Czech and Italian with the support of the Book Institute

In 2019, two translations of Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki's books were published. In the Czech Republic came out a collection of short stories Wariat (“Madman”), translated by Jiří Červenka, whereas Marzena Borejczuk introduced Italian readers to the novel Bornholm, Bornholm. The translation of both titles was supported by the Book Institute as part of the ©POLAND Translation Programme.

26.02.2020

Tags: Bedside table, Dominika Słowik

Bedside table #36. Dominika Słowik: I suffer from book FOMO

Dominika Słowik, a prose writer and a recent winner of the Polityka's Passport Award, talks both about her fascination with W.G. Sebald as well as how much emotion reading the Witcher saga once evoked in her. She also talks about reading herstorical books, children's experience of naive reading, her discovering forgotten authors, and why getting to know the authors of one’s favourite books is unnecessary.