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Małgorzata Lebda’s collection Mer de Glace, translated by Mira Rosenthal, has been shortlisted for the 2026 PEN Heaney Prize. The winner will be announced on December 1, 2026, during a ceremony in Leeds.

More Polish books have been published abroad, among them 'El ave de fuego', a selection of Zuzanna Ginczanka’s poems translated into Spanish by Elżbieta Bortkiewicz, and 'Dzieła wybrane' by Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, introduced to Romanian readers by Constantin Geambașu.

In recent months a number of Polish books have been translated abroad, including, among others, Piotruś by Leo Lipski into Serbian (another recent translation of this novel after Dalibor Blažina’s Croatian version) and Opowiadania wybrane by Kornel Filipowicz into Ukrainian.

At the end of 2025 and in the first months of 2026, further translations of Polish books appeared abroad, including the Romanian edition of Czesław Miłosz’s Rodzinna Europa, Zofia Zaleska’s Zaniechanie in Belarusian, and Ishbel Szatrawska’s Toń in German.

Second round of applications to the ©Poland Translation Programme is open until 15 September

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are pleased to announce that the first call for this year’s ©Poland Translation Programme will commence on 5th February. Applications can be submitted until the end of March.