“To the Letter” Poetry Collection by Tomasz Różycki

Translated by Mira Rosenthal. Published by Archipelago Books, January 2024. Frank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love - Różycki's To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair
09 01.2024 Books, Events, Literature

“Queen Cells” Poetry Collection by Małgorzata Lebda

Translated by Ela Wójcik-Leese. Published by Broken Sleep Books, August 2024. Queen Cells recounts – from early spring to another spring – the ‘work in blood’ of one family and one small village: Żeleźnikowa Wielka, in the Beskid Mountains of southern Poland, where Małgorzata Lebda grew up
31 08.2024 Books, Events, Literature

“A Calligraphy of Days” Poetry collection by Krzysztof Siwczyk

Translated by Piotr Florczyk and Alice-Catherine Carls. Verses that oscillate between the turmoil of post-communist Eastern Europe to understated reflections on grief and mortality. Published by Seagull Books, August 2024.
05 08.2024 Books, Events, Literature

“Warsaw Tales”, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones – Published September 2024

An anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city's tumultuous and dramatic history. Selected and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, ed. Helen Constantine. Published by Oxford University Press.
12 09.2024 Books, Events, Literature, News

“Czernovitz – Charmovitz” by Aneta Kamińska

Translated by Anna Blasiak & Bohdan Piasecki, published by Arc Publications, July 2024, the book presents a selection of Kamińska’s own poetry from across the years.
01 07.2024 Books, Events, Literature

A WWII Paratrooper’s Memoir

From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem: A Polish Paratrooper's Epic Wartime Journey by Nicholas Kinloch
30 06.2023 30 06.2024 Books, Events, Literature, News, Resources

Polish books available for loan as part of the Eurotoolbox 2023/24

Dozens of exceptional children's titles available for your school or library
10 09.2023 31 08.2024 Books, Events, Literature, News, Resources

Premiere of the catalogue “Polish Books for Children & Young Adults 2023”

As is tradition, along with the inauguration of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, the Book Institute's catalogue "Polish Books for Children & Young Adults" premieres, presenting excellent Polish books for young audiences that were published last year.

14 03.2023 13 03.2024 Books, Events, Literature, Resources

I Saw a Beautiful Woodpecker: The Diary of a Young Boy at the Outbreak of World War II

by Michał Skibinski, with illustrations by Ala Bankroft.
12 10.2021 Books