Best known as the author of Solaris, Stanisław Lem has been largely forgotten outside of his native Poland. The Year of Lem – which celebrates the centenary of his...
Tag - Polish Literature
Since 1997, the Nike Award, or Nagroda Literacka Nike, has been showcasing the best of Polish literature, with an annual prize pool of 100,000 zloty and a statue...
When most people think Eastern European literature, they think Russian classics. And while there’s every reason in the world to read them, there is also a whole realm of...
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk (pictured above) was on October 10 named the winner of the 2018 Nobel prize for literature. Austrian author Peter Handke, who delivered a...
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke have both won the Nobel prize for literature. To a packed room at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on...