{"id":5945,"date":"2020-09-22T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2023-02-23T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:48:25","slug":"contemporary-polish-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2020\/09\/22\/contemporary-polish-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Polish Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The history<\/span> of Poland is<\/span> a turbulent one:<\/span>\u00a0it disappeared<\/span> at the end<\/span> of<\/span> the 18th century<\/span>, then it was resurrected after World War I and afterward fell victim to Nazi and Communist\u00a0totalitarian<\/span> regimes.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
Polish literature has often played the role of a guardian<\/span> of the national soul and patriotic values.<\/span> <\/span>Thus<\/span>, while Poland was <\/span>occupied<\/span> by Russia, <\/span>Prussia<\/span> and Austro-Hungary, the <\/span>nation<\/span> <\/span>saw<\/span> the <\/span>birth<\/span> of its <\/span>greatest<\/span> masterpieces, particularly during the XIX <\/span>century Romanticism<\/span>.<\/span><\/span> Many Polish artists and writers<\/span> were exiled in France.<\/span> Novels<\/span> of Adam Mickiewicz<\/span>, Juliusz<\/span> S\u0142owacki<\/span> or Henryk<\/span> Sienkiewicz<\/span> contributed to the awakening<\/span> and construction<\/span> of Polish consciousness.<\/span>
During the 20th century<\/span>\u00a0Poland faced<\/span> Nazi<\/span> and then Soviet totalitarian<\/span> regimes.<\/span>\u00a0Writers<\/span> who did not accept the rules<\/span> of the imposed ideology<\/span> were once again condemned to exile, either physically or spiritually.<\/span> We owe<\/span> to these rebellious minds unique works that convey<\/span> the experience<\/span> of war<\/span>, the horror<\/span> of the camps<\/span> and the resistance<\/span> in the face<\/span> of oppression<\/span>.<\/span> One of the characteristic features of the Polish literature<\/span>, especially between 1945-1989, is<\/span> the division<\/span> to national<\/span> and emigration literature<\/span>.<\/span> Among the writers<\/span> from that period<\/span>, we can mention<\/span> Czes\u0142aw<\/span> Mi\u0142osz<\/span>, Witold<\/span> Gombrowicz<\/span>, Gustaw<\/span> Herling-Grudzi\u0144ski<\/span>, Stanis\u0142aw<\/span> Mro\u017cek<\/span> and Zbigniew<\/span> Herbert.<\/span>

Heir<\/span> to its <\/span>long<\/span> history, the contemporary <\/span>Polish<\/span> <\/span>literature<\/span> is\u00a0<\/span>characterized<\/span> by permanent reinvention, a <\/span>threat<\/span> that can be <\/span>proved<\/span> by the Nobel Prize <\/span>won<\/span> by Olga <\/span>Tokarczuk<\/span> in 2018.<\/span><\/span> Since its creation<\/span> in 1901, six Polish<\/span> writers have received<\/span> this award\u02d0<\/span> Henryk<\/span> Sienkiewicz<\/span> (1905)<\/span>,<\/span> W\u0142adys\u0142aw<\/span> Reymont<\/span> (1924)<\/span>,<\/span> Isaac Bashevis<\/span> Singer (1978, Yiddish)<\/span>,<\/span> Czes\u0142aw<\/span> Mi\u0142osz<\/span> (1980)<\/span>,<\/span> Wis\u0142awa<\/span> Szymborska<\/span> (1996)<\/span> and Olga Tokarczuk (2018)<\/span>.<\/span>

Contemporary Polish<\/span> literature offers<\/span> a wide<\/span> selection of genres<\/span>.<\/span> It has been recognized and translated into many languages<\/span>.<\/span> We encourage<\/span> you to discover<\/span> books<\/span> from Wies\u0142aw<\/span> My\u015bliwski<\/span>, Andrzej<\/span> Stasiuk<\/span>, Szczepan<\/span> Twardoch<\/span>, Dorota<\/span> Mas\u0142owska<\/span>, Andrzej<\/span> Sapkowski<\/span>, Mariusz<\/span> Szczygie\u0142<\/span>, Zygmunt<\/span> Mi\u0142oszewski<\/span> and many others<\/span>.<\/span> Here<\/span> is<\/span> the non-exhaustive list of new<\/span> releases as well as some classics translated into English<\/span> and available in Belgium.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olga TOKARCZUK<\/b>, NOBEL Prize in Literature 2018<\/p>\n

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,<\/i><\/b> Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019<\/p>\n

Flights<\/i><\/b>, <\/i>Olga Tokarczuk (author), Jennifer Croft (translator), Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018<\/p>\n

The Books of Jacob<\/i><\/b>, Olga Tokarczuk (author), Jennifer Croft (translator), Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Primeval and Other Times,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Olga Tokarczuk (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

House of Day, House of Night – Writings from an Unbound Europe<\/i><\/b>, Olga Tokarczuk (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Northwestern University Press\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

MEDIA REVIEW<\/p>\n

[A] delight to read–wonderfully inventive and by turns comic, tragic and wise. Tokarczuk’s prose is simple and unadorned. She tells her stories with a natural fluency that easily accommodates the hopes, drudgery and absurdities of the world she is describing. Real lives mingle with the imagined, dreams with day, past with the present in an entirely plausible way. \u2014<\/em>\u00a0The Observer<\/b><\/p>\n

Fiction\/ Non-fiction:<\/b><\/p>\n

The King of Warsaw<\/i><\/b>, Szczepan Twardoch (author), Sean Gasper Bye (translator), Amazon Publishing<\/p>\n

Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski: A Life<\/i><\/b>, Artur Domos\u0142awski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Verso Books<\/p>\n

Stone Upon Stone <\/i><\/b>Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski (author), Bill Johnston (translator), Publisher: Archipelago Books<\/p>\n

How To Feed A Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks<\/i><\/b>, Witold Szablowski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs Mohr Goes Missing<\/i><\/b>, Maryla Szymiczkowa (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher \u00a0Oneworld Publications\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

MEDIA REVIEWS<\/p>\n

An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime. \u2014<\/em>\u00a0Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 winner of the Man Booker International prize<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a delicious read.<\/em> \u2014\u00a0Michal Rusinek<\/b><\/p>\n

Charming and moreish…this is a tale that conjures up the delightful books of Dorothy L Sayers and is the perfect diversion for annoying commutes<\/em>. \u2014\u00a0Stylist top books for March<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Grain of Truth<\/i><\/b> Zygmunt Mi\u0142oszewski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Bitter Lemon Press<\/p>\n

Entanglement <\/i><\/b>Zygmunt Mi\u0142oszewski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Bitter Lemon Press<\/p>\n

Milosz: A Biography<\/i><\/b>, Andrzej Franaszek (author), Aleksandra Parker (editor and translator), Michael Parker (editor and translator) Harvard University Press\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

MEDIA REVIEWS<\/p>\n

[A] magnificent biography…Milosz: A Biography will reframe our picture of the poet in a way that will last–devastatingly human, flawed, ferociously strong-willed, living with a daemon that never left him, even into his nineties.<\/em> \u2014 Cynthia Haven in\u00a0Times Literary Supplement\u00a0<\/b>(04\/21\/2017)<\/p>\n

Franaszek’s intelligent and comprehensive biography should be read in conjunction with Milosz’s New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001.Together they provide a detailed and at times startling portrait, not only of one of the most fascinating and significant poets of the past hundred years but of what it was like to be alive, curious, politically engaged, and spiritually conflicted in the 20th century<\/em>. \u2014Troy Jollimore in\u00a0Washington Post<\/b>\u00a0(04\/21\/2017)<\/p>\n

Poetry:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Here <\/i><\/b>Wis\u0142awa Szymborska (author), Clare Cavanagh and Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak (translators), Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<\/p>\n

Selected Poems of Adam Zagajewski<\/i><\/b>, Adam Zagajewski (author) Publisher: Faber & Faber\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004,<\/i><\/b> Czeslaw Milosz (author) Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980, Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Still Life with a Bridle<\/i><\/b>, Zbigniew Herbert (author) Publisher: Notting Hill Editions<\/p>\n

Fantasy:<\/b><\/p>\n

The Witcher\u00a0 <\/span>– The Last Wish, <\/i><\/b>Andrzej Sapkowski (author), Danusia Stok (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Witcher – Blood of Elves<\/i><\/b>, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), Danusia Stok (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

MEDIA REVIEWS<\/p>\n

Like Mieville and Gaiman, Sapkowski takes the old and makes it new<\/em>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0FOUNDATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

An incredibly nuanced, well-articulated novel, imbued with a self-assured command of description and brimming with Eastern European folklore<\/em> \u2014\u00a0Starburst on Time of Contempt<\/b><\/p>\n

Delightfully dry humour, mythology brimming with radical creatures and a group of interesting characters<\/em>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Fantasy Book Review<\/b><\/p>\n

One of the best and most interesting fantasy series I’ve ever read<\/em>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Nerds of a Feather<\/b><\/p>\n

There’s lots of imagination on show, the writing has a strong voice, and the Witcher is an entertaining character<\/em> \u2014\u00a0Mark Lawrence<\/b><\/p>\n

The Witcher – Sword of Destiny<\/i><\/b>, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), David French (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Witcher – Time of Contempt<\/i><\/b>, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), David French (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CHILDREN\u2019S BOOK:<\/b><\/p>\n

Maps, <\/i><\/b>Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski (author) Publisher: Templar Publishing\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

MEDIA REVIEWS<\/p>\n

This is a book I coveted as soon as I clapped eyes on it… The illustrations are engrossing with the right amount of detail (avoiding information overkill). It is a book that invites you to brood, browse – and travel.<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Kate Kellaway in\u00a0The Guardian<\/b><\/p>\n

A great first atlas for kids…<\/em> \u2014\u00a0Lonely Planet Traveller<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Under Earth, Under Water, <\/i><\/b>Aleksandra Mizielinski (author, illustrator), Daniel Mizielinski (author, illustrator), Publisher: Templar Publishing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome to Mamoko, <\/i><\/b>Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski (author) Publisher: Templar Publishing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Book of Bees, <\/i><\/b>Piotr Socha (author), Wojciech Grajkowski (author of text) Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

MEDIA REVIEWS<\/p>\n

A beautifully illustrated new book by cartoonist Piotr Socha will delight your children with all things buzzy…It is a brilliant way to educate the younger generation about something very small but very important.<\/em> \u2014\u00a0Absolutely Education Magazine<\/b><\/p>\n

Designed like a coffee table book, yet containing the knowledge of an encyclopedia, and reading like a fun newspaper, this is stunningly executed my top non-fiction book of the year<\/em>. \u2014\u00a0Minerva Reads<\/b><\/p>\n

This glorious book will introduce you to the bee world. It is fantastically illustrated in a cartoonish style that is big, bold and will appeal to all ages of reader. As well as being encyclopedic, it is great fun – featuring recipes and a little bee newspaper, the Daily Buzz. \u2014\u00a0<\/em>Book Trust<\/b><\/p>\n

This A3-sized beautifully illustrated book will quickly become a favourite in any household<\/em>. \u2014\u00a0Countryside<\/b><\/p>\n

The Bee Book is a treasure trove of information just waiting to 'bee’ harvested!<\/em> \u2014\u00a0The Bookbag<\/b><\/p>\n

Charming and educative.<\/em> \u2014\u00a0The Tablet<\/b><\/p>\n

While it is intended for children with most of the illustrations … of a folksy and caricature-type nature, it will readily appeal to adults too<\/em> \u2014\u00a0Beekeeper Quarterly<\/b><\/p>\n

A marvelous, unique picture book about beekeeping that delights everyone who sees it<\/em>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Bees for Development Journal<\/b><\/p>\n

A wonderfully imagined and wittily illustrated compendium … Full of humour … Everything is beautifully explained in detail on a double-page spread for a deeper understanding. Quite magnificent<\/em>. \u2014\u00a0The Society of Authors<\/b><\/p>\n

The Book of Trees, <\/i><\/b>Piotr Socha (author), Wojciech Grajkowski (author of text), Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Oscar Seeks a Friend,\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><\/b>Pawe\u0142 Pawlak (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) Publisher: Lantana Publishing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Greek Myths and Mazes<\/i><\/b>, Jan Bajtlik (author, illustrator), Zosia Krasodomska-Jones (translator), Publisher: Walker Books Ltd\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

King Matt The First<\/i><\/b>, Janusz Korczak (author), Publisher: Vintage Publishing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Miniscule and the Whale<\/i><\/b>, Julian Tuwim (author), Publisher: Book Island Ltd<\/p>\n

Locomotive<\/i><\/b>, Julian Tuwim (author) Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Thus, while Poland was occupied by Russia, Prussia and Austro-Hungary, the nation saw the birth of its greatest masterpieces, particularly during the XIX century Romanticism. Many Polish artists and writers were exiled in France. Novels of Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz S\u0142owacki or Henryk Sienkiewicz contributed to the awakening and construction of Polish consciousness.During the 20th century\u00a0Poland faced Nazi and then Soviet totalitarian regimes.\u00a0Writers who did not accept the rules of the imposed ideology were once again condemned to exile, either physically or spiritually. We owe to these rebellious minds unique works that convey the experience of war, the horror of the camps and the resistance in the face of oppression. One of the characteristic features of the Polish literature, especially between 1945-1989, is the division to national and emigration literature. Among the writers from that period, we can mention Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz, Witold Gombrowicz, Gustaw Herling-Grudzi\u0144ski, Stanis\u0142aw Mro\u017cek and Zbigniew Herbert.Heir to its long history, the contemporary Polish literature is\u00a0characterized by permanent reinvention, a threat that can be proved by the Nobel Prize won by Olga Tokarczuk in 2018. Since its creation in 1901, six Polish writers have received this award\u02d0 Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905), W\u0142adys\u0142aw Reymont (1924), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978, Yiddish), Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz (1980), Wis\u0142awa Szymborska (1996) and Olga Tokarczuk (2018).Contemporary Polish literature offers a wide selection of genres. It has been recognized and translated into many languages. We encourage you to discover books from Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski, Andrzej Stasiuk, Szczepan Twardoch, Dorota Mas\u0142owska, Andrzej Sapkowski, Mariusz Szczygie\u0142, Zygmunt Mi\u0142oszewski and many others. Here is the non-exhaustive list of new releases as well as some classics translated into English and available in Belgium.\\nOlga TOKARCZUK, NOBEL Prize in Literature 2018\\nDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions\u00a0\\nShortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019\\nFlights, Olga Tokarczuk (author), Jennifer Croft (translator), Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions\u00a0\\nWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018\\nThe Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk (author), Jennifer Croft (translator), Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions\u00a0\\nPrimeval and Other Times,\u00a0Olga Tokarczuk (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press\u00a0\\nHouse of Day, House of Night - Writings from an Unbound Europe, Olga Tokarczuk (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Northwestern University Press\u00a0\\nMEDIA REVIEW\\n[A] delight to read--wonderfully inventive and by turns comic, tragic and wise. Tokarczuk's prose is simple and unadorned. She tells her stories with a natural fluency that easily accommodates the hopes, drudgery and absurdities of the world she is describing. Real lives mingle with the imagined, dreams with day, past with the present in an entirely plausible way. \u2014\u00a0The Observer\\nFiction\/ Non-fiction:\\nThe King of Warsaw, Szczepan Twardoch (author), Sean Gasper Bye (translator), Amazon Publishing\\nRyszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski: A Life, Artur Domos\u0142awski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Verso Books\\nStone Upon Stone Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski (author), Bill Johnston (translator), Publisher: Archipelago Books\\nHow To Feed A Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks, Witold Szablowski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc\u00a0\\nMrs Mohr Goes Missing, Maryla Szymiczkowa (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher \u00a0Oneworld Publications\u00a0\\nMEDIA REVIEWS\\nAn ingenious marriage of comedy and crime. \u2014\u00a0Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 winner of the Man Booker International prize\u00a0\\nThis is a delicious read. \u2014\u00a0Michal Rusinek\\nCharming and moreish...this is a tale that conjures up the delightful books of Dorothy L Sayers and is the perfect diversion for annoying commutes. \u2014\u00a0Stylist top books for March\u00a0\\nA Grain of Truth Zygmunt Mi\u0142oszewski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Bitter Lemon Press\\nEntanglement Zygmunt Mi\u0142oszewski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Bitter Lemon Press\\nMilosz: A Biography, Andrzej Franaszek (author), Aleksandra Parker (editor and translator), Michael Parker (editor and translator) Harvard University Press\u00a0\\nMEDIA REVIEWS\\n[A] magnificent biography...Milosz: A Biography will reframe our picture of the poet in a way that will last--devastatingly human, flawed, ferociously strong-willed, living with a daemon that never left him, even into his nineties. \u2014 Cynthia Haven in\u00a0Times Literary Supplement\u00a0(04\/21\/2017)\\nFranaszek's intelligent and comprehensive biography should be read in conjunction with Milosz's New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001.Together they provide a detailed and at times startling portrait, not only of one of the most fascinating and significant poets of the past hundred years but of what it was like to be alive, curious, politically engaged, and spiritually conflicted in the 20th century. \u2014Troy Jollimore in\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0(04\/21\/2017)\\nPoetry:\\nHere Wis\u0142awa Szymborska (author), Clare Cavanagh and Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak (translators), Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\\nSelected Poems of Adam Zagajewski, Adam Zagajewski (author) Publisher: Faber & Faber\u00a0\\nCzes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004, Czeslaw Milosz (author) Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980, Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u00a0\\nStill Life with a Bridle, Zbigniew Herbert (author) Publisher: Notting Hill Editions\\nFantasy:\\nThe Witcher\u00a0 - The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), Danusia Stok (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0\\nThe Witcher - Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), Danusia Stok (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0\\nMEDIA REVIEWS\\nLike Mieville and Gaiman, Sapkowski takes the old and makes it new\u00a0\u2014\u00a0FOUNDATION\\nAn incredibly nuanced, well-articulated novel, imbued with a self-assured command of description and brimming with Eastern European folklore \u2014\u00a0Starburst on Time of Contempt\\nDelightfully dry humour, mythology brimming with radical creatures and a group of interesting characters\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Fantasy Book Review\\nOne of the best and most interesting fantasy series I've ever read\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Nerds of a Feather\\nThere's lots of imagination on show, the writing has a strong voice, and the Witcher is an entertaining character \u2014\u00a0Mark Lawrence\\nThe Witcher - Sword of Destiny, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), David French (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0\\nThe Witcher - Time of Contempt, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), David French (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0\\nCHILDREN\u2019S BOOK:\\nMaps, Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski (author) Publisher: Templar Publishing\u00a0\\nMEDIA REVIEWS\\nThis is a book I coveted as soon as I clapped eyes on it... The illustrations are engrossing with the right amount of detail (avoiding information overkill). It is a book that invites you to brood, browse - and travel.\u00a0\u2014 Kate Kellaway in\u00a0The Guardian\\nA great first atlas for kids... \u2014\u00a0Lonely Planet Traveller\u00a0\\nUnder Earth, Under Water, Aleksandra Mizielinski (author, illustrator), Daniel Mizielinski (author, illustrator), Publisher: Templar Publishing\u00a0\\nWelcome to Mamoko, Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski (author) Publisher: Templar Publishing\u00a0\\nThe Book of Bees, Piotr Socha (author), Wojciech Grajkowski (author of text) Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd\u00a0\\nMEDIA REVIEWS\\nA beautifully illustrated new book by cartoonist Piotr Socha will delight your children with all things buzzy...It is a brilliant way to educate the younger generation about something very small but very important. \u2014\u00a0Absolutely Education Magazine\\nDesigned like a coffee table book, yet containing the knowledge of an encyclopedia, and reading like a fun newspaper, this is stunningly executed my top non-fiction book of the year. \u2014\u00a0Minerva Reads\\nThis glorious book will introduce you to the bee world. It is fantastically illustrated in a cartoonish style that is big, bold and will appeal to all ages of reader. As well as being encyclopedic, it is great fun - featuring recipes and a little bee newspaper, the Daily Buzz. \u2014\u00a0Book Trust\\nThis A3-sized beautifully illustrated book will quickly become a favourite in any household. \u2014\u00a0Countryside\\nThe Bee Book is a treasure trove of information just waiting to 'bee' harvested! \u2014\u00a0The Bookbag\\nCharming and educative. \u2014\u00a0The Tablet\\nWhile it is intended for children with most of the illustrations ... of a folksy and caricature-type nature, it will readily appeal to adults too \u2014\u00a0Beekeeper Quarterly\\nA marvelous, unique picture book about beekeeping that delights everyone who sees it\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Bees for Development Journal\\nA wonderfully imagined and wittily illustrated compendium ... Full of humour ... Everything is beautifully explained in detail on a double-page spread for a deeper understanding. 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Thus, while Poland was occupied by Russia, Prussia and Austro-Hungary, the nation saw the birth of its greatest masterpieces, particularly during the XIX century Romanticism. Many Polish artists and writers were exiled in France. Novels of Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz S\u0142owacki or Henryk Sienkiewicz contributed to the awakening and construction of Polish consciousness.During the 20th century\u00a0Poland faced Nazi and then Soviet totalitarian regimes.\u00a0Writers who did not accept the rules of the imposed ideology were once again condemned to exile, either physically or spiritually. We owe to these rebellious minds unique works that convey the experience of war, the horror of the camps and the resistance in the face of oppression. One of the characteristic features of the Polish literature, especially between 1945-1989, is the division to national and emigration literature. Among the writers from that period, we can mention Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz, Witold Gombrowicz, Gustaw Herling-Grudzi\u0144ski, Stanis\u0142aw Mro\u017cek and Zbigniew Herbert.Heir to its long history, the contemporary Polish literature is\u00a0characterized by permanent reinvention, a threat that can be proved by the Nobel Prize won by Olga Tokarczuk in 2018. Since its creation in 1901, six Polish writers have received this award\u02d0 Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905), W\u0142adys\u0142aw Reymont (1924), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978, Yiddish), Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz (1980), Wis\u0142awa Szymborska (1996) and Olga Tokarczuk (2018).Contemporary Polish literature offers a wide selection of genres. It has been recognized and translated into many languages. We encourage you to discover books from Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski, Andrzej Stasiuk, Szczepan Twardoch, Dorota Mas\u0142owska, Andrzej Sapkowski, Mariusz Szczygie\u0142, Zygmunt Mi\u0142oszewski and many others. Here is the non-exhaustive list of new releases as well as some classics translated into English and available in Belgium.\nOlga TOKARCZUK, NOBEL Prize in Literature 2018\nDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions\u00a0\nShortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019\nFlights, Olga Tokarczuk (author), Jennifer Croft (translator), Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions\u00a0\nWinner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018\nThe Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk (author), Jennifer Croft (translator), Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions\u00a0\nPrimeval and Other Times,\u00a0Olga Tokarczuk (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press\u00a0\nHouse of Day, House of Night - Writings from an Unbound Europe, Olga Tokarczuk (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Northwestern University Press\u00a0\nMEDIA REVIEW\n[A] delight to read--wonderfully inventive and by turns comic, tragic and wise. Tokarczuk's prose is simple and unadorned. She tells her stories with a natural fluency that easily accommodates the hopes, drudgery and absurdities of the world she is describing. Real lives mingle with the imagined, dreams with day, past with the present in an entirely plausible way. \u2014\u00a0The Observer\nFiction\/ Non-fiction:\nThe King of Warsaw, Szczepan Twardoch (author), Sean Gasper Bye (translator), Amazon Publishing\nRyszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski: A Life, Artur Domos\u0142awski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Verso Books\nStone Upon Stone Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski (author), Bill Johnston (translator), Publisher: Archipelago Books\nHow To Feed A Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks, Witold Szablowski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc\u00a0\nMrs Mohr Goes Missing, Maryla Szymiczkowa (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Publisher \u00a0Oneworld Publications\u00a0\nMEDIA REVIEWS\nAn ingenious marriage of comedy and crime. \u2014\u00a0Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 winner of the Man Booker International prize\u00a0\nThis is a delicious read. \u2014\u00a0Michal Rusinek\nCharming and moreish...this is a tale that conjures up the delightful books of Dorothy L Sayers and is the perfect diversion for annoying commutes. \u2014\u00a0Stylist top books for March\u00a0\nA Grain of Truth Zygmunt Mi\u0142oszewski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Bitter Lemon Press\nEntanglement Zygmunt Mi\u0142oszewski (author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator), Bitter Lemon Press\nMilosz: A Biography, Andrzej Franaszek (author), Aleksandra Parker (editor and translator), Michael Parker (editor and translator) Harvard University Press\u00a0\nMEDIA REVIEWS\n[A] magnificent biography...Milosz: A Biography will reframe our picture of the poet in a way that will last--devastatingly human, flawed, ferociously strong-willed, living with a daemon that never left him, even into his nineties. \u2014 Cynthia Haven in\u00a0Times Literary Supplement\u00a0(04\/21\/2017)\nFranaszek's intelligent and comprehensive biography should be read in conjunction with Milosz's New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001.Together they provide a detailed and at times startling portrait, not only of one of the most fascinating and significant poets of the past hundred years but of what it was like to be alive, curious, politically engaged, and spiritually conflicted in the 20th century. \u2014Troy Jollimore in\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0(04\/21\/2017)\nPoetry:\nHere Wis\u0142awa Szymborska (author), Clare Cavanagh and Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak (translators), Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\nSelected Poems of Adam Zagajewski, Adam Zagajewski (author) Publisher: Faber & Faber\u00a0\nCzes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004, Czeslaw Milosz (author) Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980, Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u00a0\nStill Life with a Bridle, Zbigniew Herbert (author) Publisher: Notting Hill Editions\nFantasy:\nThe Witcher\u00a0 - The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), Danusia Stok (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0\nThe Witcher - Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), Danusia Stok (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0\nMEDIA REVIEWS\nLike Mieville and Gaiman, Sapkowski takes the old and makes it new\u00a0\u2014\u00a0FOUNDATION\nAn incredibly nuanced, well-articulated novel, imbued with a self-assured command of description and brimming with Eastern European folklore \u2014\u00a0Starburst on Time of Contempt\nDelightfully dry humour, mythology brimming with radical creatures and a group of interesting characters\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Fantasy Book Review\nOne of the best and most interesting fantasy series I've ever read\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Nerds of a Feather\nThere's lots of imagination on show, the writing has a strong voice, and the Witcher is an entertaining character \u2014\u00a0Mark Lawrence\nThe Witcher - Sword of Destiny, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), David French (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0\nThe Witcher - Time of Contempt, Andrzej Sapkowski (author), David French (translator), Publisher: Orion Publishing Co\u00a0\nCHILDREN\u2019S BOOK:\nMaps, Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski (author) Publisher: Templar Publishing\u00a0\nMEDIA REVIEWS\nThis is a book I coveted as soon as I clapped eyes on it... The illustrations are engrossing with the right amount of detail (avoiding information overkill). It is a book that invites you to brood, browse - and travel.\u00a0\u2014 Kate Kellaway in\u00a0The Guardian\nA great first atlas for kids... \u2014\u00a0Lonely Planet Traveller\u00a0\nUnder Earth, Under Water, Aleksandra Mizielinski (author, illustrator), Daniel Mizielinski (author, illustrator), Publisher: Templar Publishing\u00a0\nWelcome to Mamoko, Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski (author) Publisher: Templar Publishing\u00a0\nThe Book of Bees, Piotr Socha (author), Wojciech Grajkowski (author of text) Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd\u00a0\nMEDIA REVIEWS\nA beautifully illustrated new book by cartoonist Piotr Socha will delight your children with all things buzzy...It is a brilliant way to educate the younger generation about something very small but very important. \u2014\u00a0Absolutely Education Magazine\nDesigned like a coffee table book, yet containing the knowledge of an encyclopedia, and reading like a fun newspaper, this is stunningly executed my top non-fiction book of the year. \u2014\u00a0Minerva Reads\nThis glorious book will introduce you to the bee world. It is fantastically illustrated in a cartoonish style that is big, bold and will appeal to all ages of reader. As well as being encyclopedic, it is great fun - featuring recipes and a little bee newspaper, the Daily Buzz. \u2014\u00a0Book Trust\nThis A3-sized beautifully illustrated book will quickly become a favourite in any household. \u2014\u00a0Countryside\nThe Bee Book is a treasure trove of information just waiting to 'bee' harvested! \u2014\u00a0The Bookbag\nCharming and educative. \u2014\u00a0The Tablet\nWhile it is intended for children with most of the illustrations ... of a folksy and caricature-type nature, it will readily appeal to adults too \u2014\u00a0Beekeeper Quarterly\nA marvelous, unique picture book about beekeeping that delights everyone who sees it\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Bees for Development Journal\nA wonderfully imagined and wittily illustrated compendium ... Full of humour ... Everything is beautifully explained in detail on a double-page spread for a deeper understanding. 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