Poland as the Guest of Honour at the International Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2027. Competition for the curatorial concept of an exhibition showcasing Polish children’s books and illustrations

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.

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.

In May 2025, the Book Institute launched the 'Other Traditions' programme. The goal of this initiative directed at publishers is to support valuable publications that are difficult to release under strictly market conditions. In the first, incomplete year of the program, we funded 91 publications totaling PLN 1,592,818. So far, 42 publishers have benefited from it, and the total print run of the supported publications reached 96,690 copies.

Last Sunday, December 7, the largest book fair in the world after the Frankfurt Book Fair concluded — the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. The Book Institute prepared the Polish program in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Mexico.

The Book Institute invites Polish illustrators to take part in a competition aimed at supporting creators in promoting their work internationally at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, 13–16 April 2026.