Klub książki zaprasza nowych członków do udziału w dyskusjach. Tematem spotkania czerwcowego jest książka Serce pełne skorpionów Wojciecha Engelkinga, wydana w 2021 r. przez W.A.B. Jest to historia pierwszej wielkiej miłości, która jednak podszyta jest kłamstwem, a w tle jest spisek polityczny z czasów PRL-u. Engelking, 30, jest z wykształcenia prawnikiem, a opublikował już trzy inne powieści. Współpracuje z wieloma czasopismami i tygodnikami jako niezależny publicysta. Jest współautorem podcastu filmowego “Woda w nożu”. More: o
Klub książki zaprasza nowych członków do udziału w dyskusjach. Tematem spotkania majowego jest książka Gorzko, gorzko Joanny Bator, wydana w 2020 r. przez Znak. Jest to wielopokoleniowa, skupiona na kobietach, saga rodzinna osadzona na Górnym Śląsku,. Bator, 64, jest pisarką, eseistką, podróżniczką, specjalistką od antropologii kultury i gender studies. Pochodzi z Wałbrzycha, w którego okolicach często dzieje się akcja jej powieści. Jej najbardziej znane powieści to Piaskowa skała (nominowana do Nike) oraz Ciemno, prawie noc
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Przewóz by Andrzej Stasiuk, published in 2021 by Wyd. Czarne. The book is set in 1941 in the Polish countryside at the Podlasie border between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. This is Stasiuk’s first book after twelve years and is universally praised by critics for its outstanding
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 Poland, Silesia …) and outside (in Czechia, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania …). The author has found and interviewed interesting people who remember the old border
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 Books of Jacob—the astonishing, 900-page volume from Poland’s most well-regarded novelist. This event will be broadcast live on Brookline Booksmith’s Zoom platform. Registering will provide
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 its difficult history of mixed Polish-German heritage while sticking to its Polish roots. Tomasz Słomczyński is a journalist and a writer who devoted himself to
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 her witty and ironic take on different subjects. She started her career at the Polish Radio and made the name for herself as a radio
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 poetry”. It will examine the significance of poetic works for ideas of national community in the face of external oppression, but also for the expression
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 literary lens to a discussion of identity/self of immigrant and ethnic women. What is it that women fiction writers reveal to us about their Polish
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, located in the Nowogródek region, from which the famous poet Adam Mickiewicz hailed, now is part of Belarus. Konwicki (1926-2015) was a writer, screenwriter and
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. Other than that, it is expected to feature the usual: booths with amber and jewelry, arts and crafts, Polish crystals and Boleslawiec pottery as well
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 in exile in Argentina, can be seen as two poles of Polish literary modernism. In a series of two lectures critic, editor, and translator Jaroslaw
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 world that underpins Warsaw – cocaine and other drugs are just a commodity and a lubricant that like money makes the life to go on
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 to the history of literature of the 20th century. At the same time, Myśliwski successfully entered the 21st century and settled there well. What is
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 as the 2018 Nobel Prize winner for literature. She has caught the attention of the English speaking world by winning the 2018 Man Booker International
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 translated into English many works by other Polish poets. As the author of The Captive Mind, a book of essays on politics and postwar Polish intellectuals
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. Significant part of the journey traversed the regions that are not Polish anymore, such as the eastern wall legs that included Stanisławów, Lwów, Równe, Pińsk,
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 life in The Peasants / Chłopi. Nowadays he’s not being read much anymore, with movies being the main vehicle of conveying his books to modern
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 that received some prestigious awards such as Polityka Passport made it to the final round of the top Polish literary awards, the Nike. She was
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 box champion at the same time. The book is available in English as The King of Warsaw. The book is available in English as The King