Olga Tokarczuk receives the Nobel Prize in Literature
Olga Tokarczuk, Polish writer and activist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
14
10.2019
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POLISH INSTITUTE IN BEIJING EVENT CALENDAR [OCTOBER 2019]
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05
10.2019
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80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War
Eighty years ago, German aggression on Poland started the Second World War. In the early hours of 1 September 1939, troops of the German Reich crossed the Polish-German border. Polish Army put up military resistance and expected the Allies’ reaction. On 3 September 1939, France and the UK declared war on the German Reich but did not take any real military action. Poland’s tragic fate was sealed on 17 September 1939 when the Soviet Union launched the invasion of Poland from the East.
01
09.2019
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