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S3E10 and all video recordings are available on our YouTube<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Encounters with Polish Literature<\/strong> is a video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host David A. Goldfarb<\/strong> will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series<\/a><\/strong> and the timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski<\/strong>, novelist, essayist, and playwright, was born in 1932 in the village of Dwikozy in southeastern Poland, near the city of Sandomierz.  He is the leading figure of the \u201cpeasant current\u201d in postwar Polish literature, elevating the language of the countryside to the measure of the epic, recounting the clash of old ways with the forces of war, history, and technological progress.  His early novel The Palace<\/em> (1970), in which a shepherd explores the palace of his master following a bombing during an unspecified war, appeared in an English translation by Ursula Phillips in 1991 and was made into a film.His magisterial novel, Stone Upon Stone<\/em> translated by Bill Johnston in 2011, is considered a masterwork of Polish postwar literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an era of writers much better known outside of Poland, he is the only writer to have twice won Poland\u2019s highest literary award, the NIKE Prize, in 1996 for The Horizon<\/em> and in 2006 for A Treatise on Shelling Beans<\/em> also translated by Bill Johnston for Archipelago.  In 2011 he received the Golden Sceptre award for lifetime achievement in the arts joining such luminaries as Stanis\u0142aw Lem, Roman Pola\u0144ski, S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek, composers Wojciech Kilar and Krysztof Penderecki, and poet Tadeusz R\u00f3\u017cewicz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this episode, we look mainly at Stone upon Stone<\/em> and the next novel that Bill Johnston is translating for Archipelago, Needle\u2019s Eye<\/em>, published originally in 2018 and due out in English in the next year, which is My\u015bliwski\u2019s most experimental work from the point of view of narrative. In addition to the author\u2019s familiar combination of wisdom and images of everyday life in the Communist period, the novel offers some raucous satire. We cover a number of issues pertaining to the process of translation, what it is like to work with the author and what it is like to work with Jill Schoolman, publisher and editor in chief at Archipelago Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski in English Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Needle\u2019s Eye<\/strong><\/em>.<\/a> Tr. Bill Johnston. New York: Archipelago Books, forthcoming 2024.
The Palace<\/strong>.<\/a> <\/em>Tr. Ursula Phillips. London: Peter Owen, 1991.
Stone upon Stone<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em>Tr. Bill Johnston. New York: Archipelago Books, 2013.
A Treatise on Shelling Beans<\/a><\/strong>. <\/em>Tr. Bill Johnston. New York: Archipelago Books, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bill Johnston<\/strong> has published over forty book-length translations from the Polish, including Adam Mickiewicz\u2019s Pan Tadeusz<\/em> (Archipelago Books, 2018), which won the National Translation Award in Poetry, and for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship; Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski\u2019s Stone Upon Stone<\/em> (Archipelago Books, 2010), which received the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award, as well as the same author\u2019s A Treatise on Shelling Beans<\/em> (Archipelago Books, 2013), shortlisted for the National Translation Award; Tomasz R\u00f3\u017cycki\u2019s Twelve Stations<\/em> (Zephyr Press 2015), awarded the Found in Translation Award; and Julia Fiedorczuk\u2019s Psalms<\/em> (University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming), the runner-up for the inaugural Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. Johnston\u2019s translation of Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski\u2019s 2018 novel Needle\u2019s Eye<\/em> (Ucho igielne) is in press with Archipelago Books. Johnston is at present engaged in a translation of Maria D\u0105browska\u2019s 1932-34 novel cycle The Nights and the Days<\/em> (Noce i dnie<\/em>). He teaches literary translation at Indiana University, where he is currently Michael Henry Heim Chair in Central and East European Letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lead image: Courtesy Znak, from writer\u2019s private archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bio image: Courtesy of Bill Johnston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bartek Remisko, Executive Producer<\/em>
David A. Goldfarb, Host & Producer <\/em>
Natalia Iyudin, Producer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New York: Archipelago Books, 2010.\nBill Johnston has published over forty book-length translations from the Polish, including Adam Mickiewicz\u2019s Pan Tadeusz (Archipelago Books, 2018), which won the National Translation Award in Poetry, and for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship; Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski\u2019s Stone Upon Stone (Archipelago Books, 2010), which received the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award, as well as the same author\u2019s A Treatise on Shelling Beans (Archipelago Books, 2013), shortlisted for the National Translation Award; Tomasz R\u00f3\u017cycki\u2019s Twelve Stations (Zephyr Press 2015), awarded the Found in Translation Award; and Julia Fiedorczuk\u2019s Psalms (University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming), the runner-up for the inaugural Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. Johnston\u2019s translation of Wies\u0142aw My\u015bliwski\u2019s 2018 novel Needle\u2019s Eye (Ucho igielne) is in press with Archipelago Books. Johnston is at present engaged in a translation of Maria D\u0105browska\u2019s 1932-34 novel cycle The Nights and the Days (Noce i dnie). He teaches literary translation at Indiana University, where he is currently Michael Henry Heim Chair in Central and East European Letters.\nLead image: Courtesy Znak, from writer\u2019s private archives\nBio image: Courtesy of Bill Johnston.\nBartek Remisko, Executive ProducerDavid A. 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