The book to discuss is Tajemnica Domu Helclów by Maryla Szymiczkowa published by Znak in 2018. Maryla Szymiczkowa is the pen name of Jacek Dehnel and Piotr Tarczyński. This fin-de-siècle mystery book has been praised by none other than the Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk as “an ingenious marriage of comedy and
The UW Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures invites you to a discussion of the book Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011 by Maria Rewakowicz. Dr. Rewakowicz teaches Ukrainian literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and is also affiliated with the UW Department of Slavic Languages
The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, City University of New York presents the online conversation A Flight of Tokarczuk Translators that is part of the Translating the Future program. This event will feature 12 of Olga Tokarczuk’s translators bringing her works to English, Japanese, Hindi, Ukrainian, German, Czech, Norwegian, Italian, Brazilian
Polish Book Club invites to the September meeting on Zoom. The book to discuss is Przenajświętsza Rzeczypospolita by Jacek Piekara published by Fabryka Snów in 2018 (first edition 2006). Piekara, 55 is a fantasy and science-fiction writer, nowadays mostly known due to his fantasy series about wizard Arivald and another one about inquisitor
The Polish Cultural Center starts a new book club for people who’d like to read and discuss Polish literature in English (yes!), organized by indomitable Paulina Phung. The book to discuss at the first meeting is Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkowa. Szymiczkowa is the pen name of duo Jacek
Polish Book Club invites to the August meeting on Zoom. The book to discuss is Zimowla by Dominika Słowik published by Wyd. Znak in 2019. Słowik, 32 is an award winning writer; Zimowla is her second book and it won the Polityka Passport Award in literature in 2019. The book about small country