The contest for the curatorial concept of the exhibition of Polish children’s books and illustrations has been resolved

On March 10 one of the most important book fairs in the publishing world, London Book Fair, opens. The Book Institute, as every year, is organising the Polish stand to enable domestic publishers and literary agencies to make business contacts and sell rights.

The competitive rounds of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage’s programmes, administered by the Book Institute, are over. For the programmes “Magazines,” “Literature,” “Partnership for the Book,” and “Promotion of Reading,” 2,090 applications were submitted, of which 469 received funding totaling PLN 19,252,695.

The Book Institute has selected additional publications to receive funding from the Other Traditions programme. Out of 57 proposals submitted by publishers between January 14, 2026, and February 15, 2026, 35 were accepted. Support totaling over PLN 770,000 will be awarded to twenty publishers in total.

At the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026, further translations of Polish books appeared abroad, including the Bulgarian edition of Ewa Lipska’s 'Wariacje Geldbergowskie', Henryk Sienkiewicz’s 'W pustyni i w puszczy' in Mongolian, and Stanisław Lem’s 'Powrót z Gwiazd' in Spanish.

On Sunday, 8 February, the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), one of the largest trade fairs in Southeast Asia, came to an end. For the fifth time, the Book Institute, in cooperation with the Polish Office in Taipei, organized a Polish stand. The event was visited by 570,000 readers and featured around 500 exhibitors.

Submissions for the first call of the ©POLAND Translation Programme in 2026 take place from 5 February to 31 March. This year, we are pleased to be introducing a new IT system for submitting applications to the Copyright Poland Translation Programme.