Olga Tokarczuk received La storia in un romanzo 2020 award at the Italian Pordenonelegge book festival. The jury emphasised that in her novels, she touches upon the important issues of the modern world, says Wroclaw.pl.
In Spain, a book by Marcin Wicha Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem (“Things I Didn’t Throw Out”), awarded with the Polityka Passport Award and the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award, has just been published. The book was translated by Katarzyna Olszewska Sonnenberg. The publication was supported by the Book Institute as part of the ©POLAND Translation Programme.
This year’s International Book Fair and Svět Knihy Literary Festival in Prague scheduled for May had to be cancelled, but Czech readers were not completely deprived of the opportunity to meet Polish writers whose books have recently been translated into Czech.