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18.07.2018

Tags: Jarocin Festival 2018

Children’s Space in Jarocin Successful

The Children’s Space at the Jarocin Festival 2018 proved to be a great success. The Book Shop’s stand was visited by almost five hundred people while children and their parents received two hundred reading starter kits.

13.07.2018

Tags: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translation, Zygmunt Miłoszewski

“Priceless” in English!

Two days ago, an English-language edition of Zygmunt Miłoszewski's best-selling novel Priceless had its premiere. The English translation by Antonia Lloyd Jones, this year's winner of the Transatlantic Award, was published by Amazon Crossing, an Amazon Publishing’s translation imprint.

13.07.2018

Tags: Elżbieta Cherezińska, translation

Elżbieta Cherezińska’s novels to be published in the USA!

Tor Books, a part of Macmillan Publishers, acquired the rights to the English-language editions of Elżbieta Cherezińska’s novels Harda (“The Widow Queen”) and Królowa (“The Queen”). In recent years, the writer was actively supported by the Polish Book Institute, which promoted her works in the Books from Poland catalogue in Frankfurt, whereas the writer herself was present at the Institute's stand at the Svět Knihy book fair in Prague. The Widow Queen will be released in January 2021.