The Polish Book Institute

A translation of Anna Kańtoch's novel Wiosna zaginionych (“Spring of the Missing”) has been published in Italy. The publication of Raffaella Belletti's translation was supported by the Book Institute as part of the ©POLAND Translation Programme.

Writer Anna Kańtoch, five-time winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, talks about books that have made an impression on her in recent years, militia crime stories read in her childhood, debt to Agatha Christie, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Andrzej Sapkowski, and reveals which masterpiece of Polish literature she was not able to struggle through.