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Peepshow
Jacek Dehnel
In "Peepshow" Jacek Dehnel practises the art of ekphrasis, which means describing works of art in words. The works of art in question are old photographs or postcards from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, though there are also a few taken after the Second World War.
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Tiberius Caesar
Jacek Bocheński
This novel about Tiberius completes Jacek Bocheński’s Roman trilogy. The first part, "Divine Juliu"s (1961) and the second, "Naso the Poet" (1967), were read as examples of “Aesopian” literature, which escapes into the language of allusion and the metaphor of historical costume as a way of smuggling unprintable truths past the censor.
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09.02.2010 |
 January 23rd marked the third anniversary of the death of Ryszard Kapuściński, the master of literary reportage and the most outstanding writer among reporters. On this occasion the Capital City of Warsaw and Gazeta Wyborcza have established the Ryszard Kapuściński Award.
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 The Book Institute invites individuals and institutions to nominate candidates for the annual Transatlantic Prize, presented this year for the sixth time. The Transatlantic Prize is awarded by the Book Institute to outstanding ambassador of Polish literature abroad.
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On the strength of a copyright ownership transfer contract of December 24th, 2009, inked between the Ministry of the State Treasury and the Book Institute, copyright ownership for the work of Janusz Korczak, covering his entire oeuvre, has been transferred to the Book Institute in Krakow.
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 "Best European Fiction 2010" is the inaugural installment of what will become an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Published by Dalkey Archive Press and edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist Aleksandar Hemon, the Best European Fiction series will be a window onto what’s happening right now in literary scenes throughout Europe.
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 The Book Institute reminds that 31st of January is the deadline for submitting nominations for Found in Translation Award. The Award was announced 2 years ago by the Polish Book Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute in London, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and W.A.B. Publishing House in Warsaw.
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