Building Bridges: The Conrad Festival in Kraków
The Feminist Press's Lauren Hook sends a dispatch from Kraków's annual Conrad Festival, reflecting particularly on the inspiring women writers she met there.
Poland
Poland – PEN Transmissions
Playing Vietnamese
For PEN Atlas this week Mariusz Szczygieł writes about the strange case of a Vietnamese literary prodigy in the Czech Republic who proved that fact is stranger than fiction
Once I Was a Dog
Jacek Hugo-Bader writes about the scavenging life of the journalist for this week's PEN Atlas, and how living down and out in Moscow and Warsaw prepared him for his bicycle and Volvo journeys across Central Asia
Any questions for the author?
Jacek Dehnel writes a taxonomy of the literary event attendee, including 'the star', 'the obsessive', 'the well-meaning person' and 'the fixer', all of whom keep life interesting - and strange - for the travelling author
PEN Atlas Q&A – Hanna Krall, author of Chasing the King of Hearts
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis interviews Hanna Krall, author of Chasing the Kings of Hearts, a book which recreates the Holocaust not as an historical event but as a terrifying shared experience. Her literary reportage about the Holocaust is unparalleled in its power and immediacy and is available in the UK for the first time
Two stories by Sławomir Mrożek
A special dispatch from PEN Atlas this week features two stories by Sławomir Mrożek, the Polish author and cartoonist who died last month, and who will be fondly remembered for his surreal and subversive work
No offence meant
Award-winning translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones experiences extreme reactions to the latest crime novel she has translated on a recent trip to Poland...Here she tells the PEN Atlas of her time in Sandomierz, where she visits the setting of the novel by Zygmunt Miłoszewski.
Tadeusz Różewicz and The Struggle for Poetry
Basia Howard writes about Tadeusz Różewicz, Poland's most translated author
The Wizard and the Ghetto
Antonia Lloyd-Jones tells the story of a Polish hero, Janusz Korczak, the children's author who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto
PEN Atlas Q&A – Artur Domosławski, author of Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Artur Domosławski, author of the controversial and popular biography Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life.
