Seminars for foreign publishers

As part of this cyclical event, the Book Institute presents the most interesting phenomena on the Polish publishing market to guests from around the world.

The Book Institute’s task is, in part, to promote Polish literature abroad. We make every effort to help books by Polish authors appear in other languages, to cross cultural borders. We have plenty of tools to make this aim a reality. One is the Publishers’ Seminar, to which we invite representatives of foreign publishing houses to get acquainted with the books Poland has on offer. The exchange is bilateral: our guests get information on Polish literature, we collect information on foreign publishing trends.

So far ten seminars have been held, with the participation of:

• 1-4 June 2006 / devoted to Polish literature

Actes Sud (France), Fayard (France), Grasset (France), Salamandra (Spain), Tusquets Editores (Spain), De Geus (Holland), Claassen (Germany), DTV (Germany), DVA (Germany), S. Fischer (Germany), Albert Bonniers Förlag (Sweden), Norstedts and Prisma (Sweden), Archipelago Books (USA), Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency (USA), Dalkey Archive Press (USA), FSG (USA), Grove Atlantic (USA), New Directions (USA), Arcadia Books (Great Britain), Harvill Press (Great Britain), Macmillan (Great Britain), Portobello Books (Great Britain), Random House (Great Britain), Saggiatore (Italy).

• 14 -17 June 2007 / devoted to Polish literature

Inter Zona Editora (Argentina), Christian Bourgois (France), Les Editions Noir sur Blanc / Buchet Chastel (France), Stock (France), Lumen (Spain), Mondadori (Spain), Ahuzat Bait (Israel), Aliyat Hagag (Israel), Am Oved (Israel), Hakkibutz Hameuchad (Israel), Kinneret Zmora (Israel), Modan (Israel), Schocken (Israel), Xargol Books (Israel), Yedioth Books (Israel), C.H. Beck (Germany), Hanser (Germany), Kiepenheuer & Witsch (Germany), S. Fischer (Germany), Schöffling& Co. (Germany), Suhrkamp (Germany), Arcade Publishing Inc. (USA), Arcade Publishing Inc. (USA), Chatto & Windus (Great Britain), Serpent’s Tail (Great Britain), Edizioni E/O (Italy), Einaudi (Italy), Neri Pozza Bloom (Italy).

• 5-8 June 2008 / devoted to children’s and young adult literature

Picus Verlag (Austria), Baobab (Czechia), Albin Michel (France), Editions du Rouergue (France), Editions Thierry Magnier (France), Milan (France), Seuil (France), Kalandraka Editora (Spain), Carl Hanser Verlag (Germany), Moritz Verlag (Germany), Patmos Verlagshaus (Germany), Verlagsgruppe Oetinger (Germany), books&rights (Switzerland), La Joie de Lire (Switzerland), Alfabeta (Sweden), Andersen Press (Great Britain), Caterpillar Press (Great Britain), Random House Children’s Publishing UK (Great Britain), Winged Chariot (Great Britain), Salani (Italy).

• 24-27 June 2012 / devoted to Polish literature

Forlaget Sisyfos (Denmark), Rod&Co (Denmark), Acantilado (Spain), Alfaguara (Spain), Galaxia Gutenberg (Spain), Querido (Holland), Van Gennep (Holland), Pratilipi (Indie), Oceano (Mexico), btb Verlag (Germany), Piper (Germany), Rowohlt (Germany), PaxForlag (Norway), Natur och Kultur (Sweden), Farrar Straus Giroux (USA), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (USA), W. W. Norton (USA), Europa (Hungary), Magveto (Hungary), Comma Press (Great Britain), Dedalus (Great Britain), Harvill (Great Britain), Feltrinelli (Italy), Nottetempo (Italy), Voland (Italy).

• 11-14 June 2015 / devoted to Polish literature

Editora 34 (Brazil), Estação Liberdade (Brazil), Record (Brazil), SINICUS (China), Like (Finland), Rayo Verde (Spain), Zubaan Books (India), Biblioasis (Canada), Alfaguara/Objectiva (Portugal), Booktailors (Portugal), Kalligram (Slovakia/Hungary), Bence (Turkey), Kalem Agency (Turkey), Siren (Turkey), Archipelago (USA), New Vessel Press (USA), New York Review Books (USA), Penguin Random House (USA), Restless Books (USA), Periscope (Great Britain), Peter Owen Publishers (Great Britain), Scribe (Great Britain), Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Great Britain).

• 23-24 June 2016 / devoted to Polish literature

Fourth Estate, Harvill Secker (Great Britain), Maclehose Press (Great Britain), Pushkin Press (Great Britain), Simon and Schuster (USA), Portobello Books, Hodder & Stoughton (Great Britain)

• 21-22 June 2018 / devoted to children’s and young adult literature

Pastel (Belgium), Daylight, Phoenix Juvenile And Children’s Publishing (China), Actes Sud, La Martiniere (France), Patakis (Greece), Tara Books (India), Siruella (Spain), Querido (Holland), Sang (Korea), Gestenberg, Gestalten (Germany), Kompas Gid, Pink Giraffe (Russia), Host (Slovakia), Red House (Turkey), Urbino (Ukraine), Lira (Hungary), Walker Books (Great Britain), Rizzoli/Mondadori (Italy).

• 14-15 June 2019 / addressed to publishers from German-speaking countries

Paul Zsolnay (Austria), Kampa (Switzerland), Suhrkamp, edition.fotoTAPETA, Secession Verlag für Literatur, KLAK, Berlin Verlag in der Piper Verlag, Heyne, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Ullstein, Wallstein, Schöningh (Germany)

• 19-20 June 2024 / addressed to publishers from Spanish-speaking countries

Sexto Piso, Fondo de la Cultura Económica and Editorial Océano (Mexico), interZona (Argentina), Una Casa de cartón z Chile, and nine publishing houses from Spain: Alianza, Edhasa, Lumen, Anagrama, Alianza, Tusquets, Temporal, Impedimienta and la Caja Books

• 12-14 June 2025 / devoted to Polish literature and non-fiction

Manshorat Al-Jamal/Alkamel Verlag (Lebanon/Iraq/UAE), Siltala Publishing (Finland), Turbine (Denmark), Rámus (Sweden), Verlag Klaus Wagenbach (Germany), Die Andere Bibliothek/Aufbau (Germany), Marsilio Editori (Italy), Scribe (Australia), Open Letter Books (USA), Yedioth Books Ltd. (Israel), Prosak Forlag (Sweden), Metaichmio Publications (Greece), Columbia University Press (USA), MTO Press (USA), Les Argonautes Éditeur (France), Koppernik (Holland) and Absynt (Czechia/Slovakia).