Szymborska, Dukaj, Tokarczuk – new translations of Polish books

This three-day series of meetings for publishers from Poland and abroad is organized by the Wytwórnia publishing house in collaboration with the Book Institute and is part of the Mały Koneser Festival and Children’s Book Publishers Fair.

We invite curators to participate in the competition to develop a comprehensive concept and oversee the curation of an exhibition presenting Polish children's literature and illustrations. The exhibition will be realized during the Bologna Children's Book Fair in 2027 as part of Poland's presence as the guest of honour.

The Publishing Proposals Program is aimed at Polish publishers and agents who wish to present Polish publishing proposals abroad. Under this program, the Book Institute finances up to 15 pages of a publishing presentation in a foreign language. A minimum of 2/3 of the total must consist of a sample translation of the book into a foreign language.

Among the new translations recently published abroad, special attention should be paid to the Bulgarian translation of Olga Tokarczuk's ‘The Books of Jacob,’ translated by Krum Krumov and published by ICU.

Thanks to the ©Poland Translation Programme, several new translations of Polish books have recently been published abroad. Among them, noteworthy are a series of translations into Slovak, as well as the translation of Halina Poświatowska’s Wiersze wybrane, published by Báltica Editorial and translated by Xavier Farré and José María Faraldo.

Recently, the edition of ‘Complete Poems’ by Wisława Szymborska was published in Taiwan, translated into traditional Chinese by Wei-Yun Lin-Górecka. The premiere took place on Saturday, December 20, in Taipei.