THE POLKA PODCAST. Episode 4: Polish Children’s Books
Polish children’s publishing is growing and has a strong focus on striking artistic illustrations, detailed non-fiction, and sensitive real-world topics. Children’s publishing in Poland is expanding....
View ArticleThe Stories We Inherit: Lars Saabye Christensen and Sanda Tomescu Baciu on MY...
Lars Saabye Christensen is one of the defining voices of contemporary Nordic literature and a much-loved author in his native Norway. Best known for his highly acclaimed novels Beatles, The Half...
View ArticleTHE POLKA PODCAST. Episode 3: Polish poetry with Piotr Florczyk and focus on...
The third episode of The Polka Podcast is now available to list on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, but also on YouTube and Amazon Music. Part 1: Polish poetry now Our guest, Piotr Florczyk, is an...
View ArticlePOETRY TRAVELS with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: TO THE LEFT OF THE RISING...
There are times of departureswhen you abandon places likeclock that loses time and headstowards other destinations, whenthe sun unrolls the earth fromclouds that let you face it, graciously,the North...
View ArticleDIE GERMANISTIN: Riveting Forays into German-Language Literature with...
I am delighted to share a translated excerpt from Kaśka Bryla’s latest novel, mein vater der gulag die krähe und ich / ‘my father the gulag the crow and me’ (Residenz, 2025). This extraordinary...
View ArticleTHE POLKA: What’s Riveting in Polish Literature by Anna Blasiak. MARTA...
A disclaimer first – I have just translated an extensive extract from this novel. And, as always happens, translating forced me to read deeply, perhaps more deeply that I would have otherwise. I was...
View ArticleThe Polka Podcast. Episode 2: Polish writers at UK literature festivals and...
The second episode of The Polka Podcast is now available to list on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, but also on YouTube and Amazon Music.Part 1 of the episode focuses on main literature festivals in the UK...
View ArticlePOETRY TRAVELS with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo. An extract from PSALM TO...
1.Saint Sabina of Brzeg, Kolomyia, Sniatyn, Łapy, Tobolsk,whose ID said your place of birth was Sniatyn in the USSR, even though when you were born there was no USSRand the ruler was Tsar Nicholas, a...
View ArticleTHE POLKA: What’s Riveting in Polish Literature by Anna Blasiak. AGNIESZKA...
It’s been a long while since I laughed so much while reading a book, especially a Polish one. Usually when I do, I am forced to explain my laughter to my partner with a quick translation from Polish...
View ArticlePOETRY TRAVELS with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: SKIN by Manon Godet,...
I trust only you.You the words. You the images, the stars. You are the threads we weave with our fingers, so theblood flows from vein to vein. Open the canvas. Make the skin speak. Make my skin speak....
View ArticleDIE GERMANISTIN: Riveting Forays into German-Language Literature by Sheridan...
Charles Lewinsky’s latest novel, A Different Story (Eine andere Geschichte, Diogenes, March 2026), is a masterpiece: a beautifully told narrative from an eminently likeable protagonist that is also a...
View ArticleThe Polka Podcast. Episode 1: Polish literature on the screen
The first episode of The Polka Podcast has landed on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. The conversation delves into the exploration of Polish literature and film. Part one focuses on screen adaptations of...
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THE POLKA: What’s Riveting in Polish Literature with Anna Blasiak. We have news!
The Polka has a new sibling! Yes, you read that right. The marriage of the European Literature Network (ELNet) and the Polish Cultural Institute (PCI), in my role as PCI’s Head of Literature, has...
View ArticlePOETRY TRAVELS with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: TREATISE ON POETRY by...
I would give a lot forthis poem to be a boxof matches, an unshaded lampon the desk, a laundry receipt.This dream makes mea poet By Julian Kornhauser Translated by Piotr Florczyk From i’m half of your...
View ArticleDIE GERMANISTIN: Riveting Forays into German-Language Literature by Sheridan...
On the publication day of her latest book, penelopes sch( )iff, Ulrike Draesner is radiant. The German poet and novelist greets the camera from her Berlin study, surrounded by piles of research on...
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TRAFIKA EUROPE CORNER with Clayton McKee: TWO POEMS by Jim Murdoch
Limerence and the Actress I am, for some at least, an object, a thing, and, grammatically-speaking, I can live with that. Philosophically, maybe not so much. From a psychological perspective, however,...
View ArticleDIE GERMANISTIN: Riveting Forays into German-Language Literature by Guest...
Recently published in English by Moth Books, in a luminous translation by Ruth Martin, Iris Wolff’s Blurred tells the story of four generations in the life of a German-speaking family from Romania....
View ArticlePOETRY TRAVELS with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: THE VISTULA BOULEVARDS AT...
they crept out at dusk from furnishedlairs conformist and narcissisticwhite-collared ratsand slimy reptiles drooling over eachskirt driven bytestosterone after a cold-bloodedhuntthey bit into and...
View ArticleDIE GERMANISTIN: Riveting Forays into German-Language Literature by Guest...
During holiday season I have been exploring Germany virtually, east to the Oder, south to the Danube and west to the Rhine and the Ruhr. This is thanks to two writers, Irina Liebmann and Ingo Schulze,...
View ArticleTHE POLKA: What’s Riveting in Polish Literature by Anna Blasiak. Who is...
Come with me as I enter a flat on the eleventh floor of a high rise apartment building in Olsztyn, a city in east-north of Poland, in the lands of Warmia, a historical and ethnographic region in...
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