24 March 2026

Record-breaking Leipzig Book Fair

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.

Nominations for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis were announced during the event – Miasto tańczącego karpia Mizielińskich was shortlisted (Picturebook category, age 8+). The winner will be revealed at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and all nominations can be found here. Miasto Tańczącego Karpia was published in Germany last year in a translation by Hannah Gemmel (Moritz Verlag) – the publication was supported by the Polish Book Institute under the ©Poland Translation Programme.

Polish authors also took part in the event, including Dorota Masłowska (promotion of Magiczna rana, Rowohlt Verlag, tr. Olaf Kühl), Marta Dzido (promotion of Sezon na truskawki, MaroVerlag, tr. Antje Ritter‑Miller), Julia Fiedorczuk (promotion of Pod słońcem, Transit Buchverlag, tr. Joanna Manc and Lisa Palmes), Adam Wajrak and Tomasz Samojlik (promotion of Detektyw Wróbel i złamane pióro, Edition Helden, tr. Karin Ehrhardt) and Maciej Siembieda (premiere of Katharsis, Polente Verlag, tr. Ewa Krauss).

meeting with Julia Fiedorczuk / photo: Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz, Polish Institute in Leipzig

meeting with Tomasz Samojlik and Adam Wajrak / photo: Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz, Polish Institute in Leipzig

meeting with Dorota Masłowska / photo: Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz, Polish Institute in Leipzig

meeting with Julia Fiedorczuk / photo: Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz, Polish Institute in Leipzig

meeting with Marta Dzido / photo: Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz, Polish Institute in Leipzig

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First round of applications to the ©Poland Translation Programme open until the end of March

This is our most important programme promoting Polish literature worldwide, supporting the publication of Polish books in translations into foreign languages.

20 March 2026

We announce the next publications supported under the Other Traditions programme

The Book Institute has selected additional publications to receive funding from the Other Traditions programme. Out of 61 proposals submitted by publishers between February 11, 2026, and March 10, 2026, 35 were accepted. Support totaling over PLN 580,000 will be awarded to 22 publishers in total.

19 March 2026

Poland at the Leipzig Book Fair 2026

The Leipziger Buchmesse and the accompanying multi-day festival Leipzig Liest are starting. The fair will run from March 19 to 22. The Polish stand was organized by the Book Institute in cooperation with the Leipzig branch of the Polish Institute in Berlin.

19 March 2026

Joanna Czeczott in Banská Bystrica

As part of the seventh edition of the Bliżej Polski (Closer to Poland) programme in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, on Wednesday, March 11, the “Academia Coffee” of the Centre for Polish Language and Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy of Matej Bel University organized an event in cooperation with the Book Institute and the Polish Institute in Bratislava. These institutions once again promoted Polish reportage to the local audience. The guest of the event was Joanna Czeczott, a Polish reporter and political scientist.

17 March 2026

New publications from the Book Institute publishing house

The latest publications from the Book Institute publishing house have been released. Readers can now get their hands on fascinating books about contemporary literature. We present them below.

16 March 2026

Lipski, Tokarczuk, Lem, Honek – new editions of Polish books abroad

In 2026, some new translations of Polish books were published abroad, including the Croatian translation of Leo Lipski's Piotruś, the Italian translation of Szczepan Twardoch’s novel Null, and a selection of poems by Wojciech Bonowicz in English.

13 March 2026

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