The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Wymazana granica, Śladami II Rzeczpospolitej by Tomasz Grzywaczewski, published in 2020 by Wyd. Czarne. The book traces the non-existing borders of Poland from before WWII, both inside of the country now (in Kaszuby, Greater
Third Place Books presents a virtual meeting with Olga Tokarczuk and translator Jennifer Croft discussing The Books of Jacob. Third Place Books partnered with Community Bookstore and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith to welcome Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft for a discussion of their latest book, The
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Kaszëbë by Tomasz Słomczyński, published in 2021 by Wyd. Czarne. The book focuses on the Polish region of Kaszuby, with its own Kashubian language and customs. The region is frequently compared to Silesia for
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Maria Czubaszek. W coś trzeba nie wierzyć by Violetta Ozminkowski, published in 2021 by Prószyński i S-ka. The book is a biography of Maria Czubaszek. She was a satirist, writer, songwriter, screenwriter, known of
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a webinar in the Studying Poland Today series Poland: Imagined Community: Poetry and Poems in Polish Culture by Stanley Bill. The lecture looks at the particular importance of poetry in Polish history, with a focus on the twentieth century and the “Polish school of
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents a webinar The Polish American Woman: Writing Her Self by Prof. Grażyna Kozaczka, based on her book Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction. The author’s intro to the lecture: This talk, Polish American Women: Writing Her Self, will apply a
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Bohiń by Tadeusz Konwicki, first published in 1987. The book based on Konwicki’s family history depicts a forgotten corner of the now lost Polish Lithuania with its people and traditions and complicated history. Bohiń,
The fall bazaar is returning to the Polish Cultural Center at its usual first weekend of November, organized by the Polish Women’s Club. The ladies are playing it safe though due to the pandemic, and this year the Polish bazaar will last only one day, instead of the usual two.
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a webinar Bruno Schulz – Between Reality and the Word by .Jaroslaw Anders. Bruno Schulz, a literary magus and myth maker who perished in the ghetto in his native, beloved Drohobycz, and Witold Gombrowicz, an ironist and intellectual provocateur, who spent most of his life
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Ślepnąc od świateł by Jakub Żulczyk, published in 2018 by Świat Książki. The book is the first person account of the frenzied life of a cocaine dealer and a portrait of the brutal underground
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a lecture Generosity of Narrative: Wiesław Myśliwski by Dr. Agnieszka Kramkowska-Dąbrowska. Wiesław Myśliwski (b. 1932) is one of the few living writers who made their debut more than fifty years ago and, due to the importance of their works published at that time, belong
This local club is for readers who would like to discuss Polish literature in English. The book for the meeting is Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, first published in Poland as Bieguni in 2007 and the book that made her name in the English speaking countries. Tokarczuk is of course famous
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a lecture A Lyrical Poet as a Political Writer: The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz by Prof. Bozena Shallcross and Prof. Andrzej Karcz. Milosz is of course the 1980 Nobel Prize winner for Literature and is known predominantly for his poetry. He has also
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Rowerem przez II RP by Bernard Newman, published in 2021 by Znak Horyzont. Filled with countless anecdotes, photos and personal observations, the book recounts Bernard Newman’s 3,000km route from Gdańsk to Kraków in 1934.
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a lecture Władysław Reymont Through the Prism of Film Adaptations (Andrzej Wajda and Others) by Prof. Tomasz Żukowski. Władysław Reymont (1867-1925), was a famous Polish novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924 for his epic depiction of the rural rhythm of
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a lecture Dorota Maslowska’s Provinces by Prof. Katarzyna Czeczot. Dorota Maslowska, 38 is a novelist, playwright and independent thinker who burst into the Polish literary scene in 2002 with her famous debut novel Snow White and Russian Red / Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Król by Szczepan Twardoch, published in 2016. It paints a political panorama of Warsaw before WWII and of Polish-Jewish relations there with the narrator being an associate to a bloody gangster “king” who is a
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs presents a webinar Huddled in Full Sentences: Poetic Worlds of Ewa Lipska by Jaroslaw Anders. One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Polish poetry, Ewa Lipska’s writing combines the feeling of personal vulnerability, social corrosion, historical perils, and philosophical uncertainties of modern life. Often
PFF Miami presents a movie program celebrating the centennial of the famous Polish sci-fi writer, essayist, philosopher and futurist Stanisław Lem (1921-2006). Perhaps best known worldwide as the author of the 1961 novel, “Solaris,” Stanisław Lem produced dozens upon dozens of novels, stories and essays throughout his nearly 60-year career.
This local club is for readers who would like to discuss Polish literature in English. The book for the meeting is Tango by Sławomir Mrożek, first published in 2006. Tango is a play, and arguably, his most famous one. In his trademark absurd style the play deals with the totalitarianism