Wojciech Jagielski – a journalist of PAP (Polish Press Agency), a journalist of Gazeta Wyborcza from 1991 to 2012, currently again employed by PAP. He specializes in Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

He published five books: "A good place to die" ("Dobre miejsce do umierania", 1994), "Prayer for Rain" ("Modlitwa o deszcz", 2002; nominated for the Nike Literary Award and winner of the Józef Tischner Award), "Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya" ("Wieże z kamienia", 2004), "The Night Wanderers: Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army" ("Nocni wędrowcy", 2009) and "Trębacz z Tembisy".

Winner of multiple awards, such as: Polish Journalists Association (1995, the so-called Polish Pulitzer), Dariusz Fikus Award (2002), and the golden badge for his merit to the Polish Press Agency (2005). Although he is frequently compared to Ryszard Kapuściński, he has followed his own path as a writer from the very beginning.

The meeting will be moderated by Szymon Kloska.

Are the Czechs really “pepiki”? A meeting with Czech translators on their perspective of the Czech literature, culture and history. Panellists: Olga Czernikow, Katarzyna Dudzic-Grabińska, Renata Putzlacher, Julia Różewicz, Leszek Engelking, Andrzej Jagodziński and others. The meeting will be moderated by Lucie Zakopalová from the Polish Institute in Prague.

Partner of the event – Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury (the Mazovian Institute of Culture)

Methodological workshop for French language teachers.

Developing strategies for learning and teaching in groups with advanced language skills using the COSMOPOLITE course as an example. How can you improve your language skills by working with the new FOCUS and EN CONTEXTE publications?

Hanna Jankowska is one of the members of the Polish Literary Translators Association (STL) who will be available at the STL stand for questions about the work of a translator and about her own translations. Graduate of oriental studies and postgraduate studies in political sciences at the University of Warsaw. She worked as a translator at Polish and Arab diplomatic missions in Tripoli and Warsaw. She has collaborated with such publishers as: PIW, W.A.B., Muza and Czarne. She translates essays, non-fiction books and documentary films from English. Her translations from Arabic are examples of contemporary prose, those from Russian are feature films and TV shows. She received an award from the Association of Polish Translators for her translation of Samuel Huntington's “Clash of Civilizations” in 1997.

We invite you to a meeting with the award-winning Romanian writer Cristian Teodorescu and the translator Radosław Janowska-Lascar. The discussions will be led by Marcin Wilk

Cristian Teodorescu, the author of Medgidia (Amaltea 2016, translated by Radosława Janowska-Lascar), is famous for his colorful way of telling stories. He constructs his heroes with warmth and tenderness, and his books are seasoned with a large dose of humor and a pinch of irony.

The discussions will focus on this year's Polish launching of "The book of the cat" (Amaltea 2019, translated by Radosława Janowska-Lascar). The narrator of the novel is a one-eyed cat, taken in by the writer. The cat's look at the world, though limited as a result of an accident, becomes a pretext to consider family, friendship and the modern world relationships. A book not only for lovers of meowing pets!

The author's previous book, Medgidia qualified for the finals of the ANGELUS Central European Literary Award in 2016.

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