Salon of Poetry in Seattle presents the first poetry evening in Polish this year Poezja łączy ludzi. The program includes reading poems by members of the Salon as well as by members of the audience: please prepare your favorite poem supporting motto of this pandemic event: poetry connects people. As usual for the Salon meetings, music will be complementing poetry – local pianist Marzena Szlaga will play Debussy’s Clair de Lune and Beethoven’s Adagio Cantabile
This new literature book club in Seattle is for readers who’d like to discuss Polish literature in English. The book for this meeting is Choukas by Zofia Nałkowska published in 1927. Choucas is a French bird name for jackdaw, in Polish kawka; the name is used symbolically for people and their sometimes strange behavior. The books examines the role of minorities in different societies and situations through its different characters and is set in Swiss
The Polish Literature Club is a new book club in Seattle for people who’d like to read and discuss Polish literature in English (yes!), organized by indomitable Paulina Phung. The book to discuss at this meeting is Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski, a controversial 1948 book about moral dilemmas of anti-communist resistance in 1945 Poland that was made into the world famous movie by Andrzej Wajda in 1958. Andrzejewski (1909-1983) was one of the writers
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 crime”. This event is in Polish. More: virtual Polish Book Club September meeting (PL), about the book and the author (PL). Please contact Paulina for the Zoom invite or
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 and Literatures. This award winning book examines how the dilemmas of Ukrainian identity manifested themselves in the literature of the first two decades of Ukraine’s
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 Portuguese and Romanian readers. They will compare and contrast their experiences working with the challenging and dynamic author over the course of her career. The
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 Mortimer Madderdin. The book is a political dystopia set in future Poland ruled by religious fanatics and utterly corrupted elites. This event is in Polish.
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 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
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 town full of mysteries and odd happenings is available on Amazon and at the Polish online bookstores such as Quo Vadis. This event is in