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03.07.2018

Professor Wydra’s Great Discovery

In one of the European university libraries, an unknown printed edition of Rozmowa Mistrza Polikarpa ze Śmiercią (Master Polikarp’s Dialogue with Death) from 1542 (Cracow, Maciej Szarfenberg) has been discovered. The discovery was made by Professor Wiesław Wydra from the Institute of Polish Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

28.06.2018

Tags: literature for children, promotion of reading

360 thousands books to be donated to newborns

As part of the campaign "Small Book - Great Man" by the Polish Book Institute, subsequent books will be sent to maternity wards. This time, it will be as many as 360,000 copies of Pierwsze wiersze (First Poems). The new batch of "readers' layettes" for parents and their children has just left the printing house.

26.06.2018

Tags: foreign market, foreign publishers, literature for children, seminar

The 7th edition of the seminar for foreign publishers is over!

Over the past Friday and Saturday, the seventh edition of the seminar for foreign publishers took place in Cracow. The two-day event was devoted to children’s and youth literature. Twenty publishers from around the world had an opportunity to meet Polish editors and illustrators.