A meeting with Masha Gessen, author of “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia” (Prószyński i S-ka), with the participation of translators: Magdalena Iwińska and Hanna Faryna-Paszkiewicz, hosted by William Brand.

Meeting in English, consecutive translation into Polish

Meeting with translators: Marta Cmiel-Bażant, Małgorzata Gierałtowska, Marta Grzybowska and Anna Michalczuk.

Meeting with translators: Marta Cmiel-Bażant, Małgorzata Gierałtowska, Marta Grzybowska and Anna Michalczuk.

APTI’s panel will be dedicated to the situation of literary translators on the Polish book market. The panellists will include: Marek Bieńczyk, writer, translator; Milena Rachid Chehab, editor, Prószyński Media publishing house; Justyna Czechowska, translator, president of the Polish Literary Translators Association; Grażyna Szarszewska, general director, Polish Chamber of Books; Anna Wasilewska, translator, publisher, “Literatura na Świecie”. The meeting will be moderated by Wojciech Gilewski, translator and member of APTI’s Management Board.

Maria Gołębiewska-Bijak, a member of the Polish Literary Translators Association, will be available at the STL stand for questions about the work of a translator and about her own translations.

Graduate of German philology, a passionate translator from Norwegian, a cultural expert, a former German and Norwegian teacher in the Polish-Norwegian Society and at the University of Warsaw. She has translated books by such authors as Ingar Johnsrud, Thomas Reinertsen Berg, Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, Morten A. Strøksnes, Erika Fatland.

Katarzyna Grochola – one of the most popular contemporary writers who changed the face of genre literature in Poland. Constantly inspiring and surprising, she has been gaining hordes of enthusiastic readers for over two decades. She has sold nearly 5 million copies, and each of her novels has been at the top of bestseller lists. She is a winner of numerous awards. Her books have repeatedly received the title of Empik’s Bestsellers in the category of Polish literature, most recently for her novel "Przeznaczeni" published in 2016. Her popularity is best evidenced by the National Library's report for the years 2000-2017, where she was listed in the top three of the most frequently read Polish authors along Henryk Sienkiewicz and Adam Mickiewicz.

The meeting will be moderated by Jerzy Kisielewski.

Hosted by Remigiusz Grzela. 

Partner of the event: Karakter

Meeting with translators: Marta Cmiel-Bażant, Małgorzata Gierałtowska, Marta Grzybowska and Anna Michalczuk.

Julia Fiedorczuk in conversation with the authors of short-listed translations: Barbara Gutowska-Nowak (“This is London…” by Ben Judah), Mariusz Kalinowski (“A House with Two Turrets” by Maciej Zaremba Bielawski), Hanna Pustuła-Lewicka (“Street of Eternal Happiness” by Rob Schmitz), Katarzyna Tubylewicz (“Shootings in Copenhagen” by Niklas Orrenius).

During this event award will be presented in the “Translators of the world” Student Competition for a review of a translation.

Partners of the event: Embassy of Sweden in Warsaw, British Embassy in Warsaw, British Council, The Society of Authors ZAiKS, Literary Translators Association, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies of the University of Warsaw, Ryszard Kapuściński Centre for Research and Education

Meeting with Ben Judah (Jagiellonian University Press), with the participation of Barbara Gutowska-Nowak, hosted by Olga Stanisławska.