Ishbel Szatrawska and Rainer Merkel, winners of the Albrecht Lempp Scholarship for 2026

Next Monday the 63rd edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and the accompanying event, Bologna Book Plus, will begin. A total of 44 Polish exhibitors will be presented at the stands organized by the Book Institute during both events.

Kacper Bartczak was a guest at VERSeFest, the annual International Poetry Festival in Ottawa, which took place March 24–30. During the festival the poet promoted the volume Unsovereign (translated by Mark Tardi), published in Canada by above/ground press.

On March 21 in London, the Ognisko Polskie Literary Festival in London took place. Among the guests were Krystyna Dąbrowska and prose writer Mikołaj Łoziński. The Book Institute supported their participation in the event.

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The Leipziger Buchmesse and the accompanying Leipzig Liest festival have concluded. Both events attracted a record number of visitors – this year 313,000 readers took part. The Polish stand was organised by the Polish Book Institute in cooperation with the Leipzig branch of the Polish Institute in Berlin.

Aleksandra Majdzińska will take part in three events in Spain to promote the Spanish edition of 'Szalom bonjour Odessa'. The tour, held with the support of the Book Institute, is organized primarily by the Polish Institute in Madrid.