Literature

New collection of writings by Czesław Miłosz show author’s ‘internal dilemmas’ in the face of totalitarianism

Few writers have captured the dilemmas faced by 20th Century intellectuals caught between fascism and communism as well as Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Ryszard Kornecki/PAP

With 880 pages, “In the Shadow of Totalitarianisms” brings together previously-scattered articles, essays and reviews, inviting Miłosz fans, literary scholars and historians to explore its themes in greater depth.

Tube-way poetry: Polish prose hits the London Underground

London commuters have the chance to read the poetry that helped keep Polish culture alive during the dark days of partition.

Ground breaking biography of Joseph Conrad wins major literary award

The biography explores Conrad’s life and how the changing word he lived in shaped it.

Jailhouse book: The woman who visits prison to read to Poland's hardest criminals

Last year she won the Medal of Saints for ‘caring and helping’ criminals. This year she bagged the Stołek award for best urban project. TFN’s Magda Dercz caught up with the woman whose motto when working with prisoners is: “I do not deal with their past, but with their future.”

Meet Jennifer Croft, the translator who shot to fame after winning this year’s Man Booker International Prize

EXCLUSIVE: TFN catches up with the women behind the award-winning novel Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

When Swirski met Lem: Scholar Peter Swirski talks to TFN about one of the world’s greatest sci-fi writers, the late Stanisław Lem

A Canadian literary critic featured in Canada’s Who’s Who and Amazon's Number 1 Bestseller list, Professor Peter Swirski is the leading scholar on Stanisław Lem

Etgar Keret, the master of storytelling, turns 51

Born to Polish parents on August 20th 1967 in the city of Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, it was his father’s tales of gangsters and prostitutes which inspired the young Keret to greatness.

Kornel Makuszyński: Children’s author with a ‘preacherly’ quality

His children’s story ‘Those Who Stole The Moon’, the film version of which starred the young Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński, was the first in a series of masterpieces. Today marks the 65th anniversary of his death.

'Following I.B. Singer's Traces 2018' festival starts on Monday

Twelve towns in the Lublin region of eastern Poland, which were written about by Nobel Prize winner Izaak Baszewis Singer, will be visited by artists and performers from around the world during the eighth 'Following I.B. Singer's Traces' festival, which starts on Monday.

One of the world’s most influential writers, today marks the 126th anniversary of Bruno Schulz’s birth

Killed by the German Nazis while writing his novel Messiah, the manuscript went missing and is now considered one of the Holy Grails of literature.

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