Poland at BookExpo America with Author Wilhelm Dichter

Thu May 31 20:38:56 UTC 2012

Dear colleagues,

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**The *Polish Cultural Institute New York* and the *Polish Book
Institute*in Kraków are proud to announce their new effort to bring
Polish literature
to the American public at *BookExpo America* (BEA) by marketing books in
English by Polish authors to US booksellers, promoting and supporting the
translation of Polish literature into English through the (c) POLAND program
and the Found in Translation Award, and facilitating the trade in
international rights between Polish and US publishers. 2012 is proving to
be a banner year for Polish literature in English translation with the
announcement of Wiesław Myśliwski's great modern rural epic, *Stone Upon
Stone *(trans. Bill Johnston, Archipelago Books, 2011), as the winner of
this year's Best Translated Book Award from the Three Percent blog at the
University of Rochester and Amazon.com, and with Tadeusz Różewicz's
collection *Sobbing Superpower* (trans. Joanna Trzeciak, W.W. Norton, 2011)
shortlisted for the international Griffin Poetry Prize (winner to be
announced June 7).

Polish author *Wilhelm Dichter *will read from his autobiographical novels,
*God's Horse and The Atheists' School* (trans. Madeline G. Levine,
Northwestern University Press 2012), both nominated for Poland's
prestigious Nike prize, at the convention and in a public event at the
Polish Consulate General in New York. In spare, precise prose, Dichter
recounts the harrowing tale of a family's Holocaust struggle and their
postwar lives among Poland's political elite.  The author depicts the
tensions between dedicated Jewish Communists and Polish Jews who feared
another seemingly inevitable tragedy, between ideologues and pragmatists,
between Polish patriots and their Soviet masters.  He will be joined at
both readings by Madeline G. Levine, Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures
Emerita (UNC-Chapel Hill) and by Mike Levine, editor of international
literature and literary criticism at Northwestern University Press.

All who are attending BEA this year are invited and encouraged to meet us
at Booth #2451, and those who are in the New York area but will not be
attending BEA are invited to Wilhelm Dichter's reading at the Polish
Consulate the evening of June 6, 2012 at 7 pm (RSVP details below).

*WHAT:  Poland at BookExpo *

*WHEN:*  June 5-7, 2012

*WHERE*:  Booth #2451, Javits Center, 11th Ave. bet 34th and 39th Streets
New York, NY

*ADMISSION*:  http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/Register-Now/

*DIRECTIONS:  *http://www.javitscenter.com/Default.aspx?cmsid=40

*MORE INFORMATION:*
http://www.polishculture-nyc.org<http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/index.cfm?eventId=1970>

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*WHAT:  Wilhelm Dichter reading at BookExpo America **- *with translator,
Prof. Madeline G. Levine, and Editor, Mike Levine, Northwestern University
Press

*WHEN:*  Wednesday, June 6,  2012, 1-1:30 pm

*WHERE*:  Javits Center: Uptown Stage, 11th Ave bet 34th and 39th Streets
New York, NY

*ADMISSION*:  Free with BEA admission.

*DIRECTIONS:  *http://www.javitscenter.com/Default.aspx?cmsid=40

*MORE INFORMATION:*
http://www.polishculture-nyc.org<http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/index.cfm?eventId=1970>

*WHAT:  Wilhelm Dichter: Public reading **- *with translator, Prof.
Madeline G. Levine, and Editor, Mike Levine, Northwestern University Press

*WHEN:*  Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 7 pm

*WHERE*:  Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, 233 Madison Ave. (at
37th St.), New York, NY

*ADMISSION*:  Free and open to the public. RSVP required -
newyork.rsvp at msz.gov.pl

*MORE INFORMATION:*
http://www.polishculture-nyc.org<http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/index.cfm?eventId=1970>
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*The POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE NEW YORK*, established in 2000, is a
diplomatic mission to the United States serving under the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

The Institute's mission is to build, nurture and promote cultural ties
between the United States and Poland by presenting Polish culture to
American audiences and by connecting Polish artists and scholars to
American institutions, introducing them to their professional counterparts
in the United States, and facilitating their participation in contemporary
American culture.

The Institute has been producing and promoting a broad range of cultural
events in theater, music, film, literature, the humanities, and visual
arts. Among its American partners are such distinguished organizations as
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Brooklyn Academy of Music; The
Museum of Modern Art; The Jewish Museum; The PEN American Center; The
Poetry Society of America; National Gallery of Art; Yale University;
Columbia University; Princeton University; Harvard Film Archive; CUNY
Graduate Center; Julliard School of Music; The New Museum; La MaMa E.T.C.;
and many more. Our programs have included American presentations of works
by such luminaries as filmmakers Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy
Skolimowski; writers Czesław Miłosz , Adam Zagajewski and Wisława
Szymborska; composers Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutosławski and Mikołaj
Górecki; theatre directors Krystian Lupa, Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor
and Grzegorz Jarzyna; visual artists Krzysztof Wodiczko, Katarzyna Kozyra,
Artur Żmijewski; and many other important artists, writers, historians,
scholars, musicians, and performers.

www.PolishCulture-NYC.org
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*THE POLISH BOOK INSTITUTE* (Instytut Książki) is a national institution
established in Krakow by the Polish Ministry of Culture in 2004.  The
Institute's basic aims are to popularize books and reading within Poland,
as well as to promote Polish literature worldwide. These aims are
accomplished by:

*           promoting the best Polish books and their authors;

*           educational activities designed to encourage regular book
reading;

*           introducing Polish literature abroad;

*           organizing research visits for translators;

*           increasing the number of translations from Polish into foreign
languages through the (c) POLAND Translation Program; and

*           making information on Polish books and the Polish publishing
market accessible to foreign consumers.

The Polish Book Institute presents Polish books at national and
international book fairs, arranges appearances by Polish writers at
literary festivals, participates in programs designed to promote Polish
culture worldwide, publishes catalogues of "New Books from Poland", runs
study and educational activities, and sets up meetings and seminars for
translators of Polish literature.

http://www.bookinstitute.pl/

-- 
David A. Goldfarb
Curator of Literature and Humanities
Polish Cultural Institute in New York
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4621
New York, NY 10118
tel. 212-239-7300, ext. 3002
fax 212-239-7577
www.polishculture-nyc.org
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http://www.davidagoldfarb.com

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