In December 2019, a translation of Piotr Witt’s book Przedpiekle sławy. Rzecz o Chopinie (”On the Threshold of Fame: Chopin’s First Steps in Paris”) was published in France. The book was translated by Eric Veaux. The publication was supported by the Book Institute as part of the ©POLAND Translation Programme.

Just before a major anniversary of the Katyn massacre, the Czech edition of the classic work of Gulag literature Na nieludzkiej ziemi (“The Inhuman Land”) by Józef Czapski was published. The publication was supported by the Book Institute and the Polish Institute in Prague.

The ten nominees for the second edition of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD) Prize included the English translation of Jacek Dehnel and Piotr Tarczyński’s Tajemnica domu Helclów (“Mrs Mohr Goes Missing”). The book was translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, a winner of last year’s Transatlantic Prize. The book was published with the support of the Polish Book Institute as part of the ©POLAND Translation Programme.