September 1, 2014 - September 14, 2014

FALL/WINTER 2014 SEASON
at the Polish Cultural Institute New York

2014 TRANSATLANTYK PRIZE FOR TRANSLATION
Bill Johnston

May 30, 2014

MAREK HLASKO: REVIVING A LITERARY REBEL
With David Goldfarb, Antonia Lloyd-Jones,
Sal Robinson and Ross Ufberg

May 27, 2014 - May 29, 2014

BOOK LAUNCH AND READING TOUR:
MARIUSZ SZCZYGIEL GOTTLAND
With Mariusz Szczygiel, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator
and Sal Robinson, editor at Melville House Press

TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ
1921 - 2014

May 3, 2014

BROKEN DREAMS IN TWO ACTS: 25 YEARS SINCE THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
Adam Michnik at the 10th Annual
PEN World Voices Festival

April 24, 2014 - April 26, 2014

TOWARDS A NEW DEMOCRATIC CULTURE IN POLAND
Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention

April 4, 2014 - April 8, 2014

GRZEGORZ WRÓBLEWSKI
"Kopenhaga" reading tour

November 15, 2013

2013 FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD
awarded to Antonia Lloyd-Jones

November 12, 2013 - November 17, 2013

NEW LITERATURE FROM EUROPE 2013:
IN TRANSIT
featuring Witold Szablowski

October 17, 2013 - October 18, 2013

THE ORIGINS AND IMPACT
OF WORLD WAR I
An Interdisciplinary Conference

September 27, 2013 - November 3, 2013

Tadeusz Dabrowski
Reading tour and residency at Writers OMI

September 10, 2013

Andrzej Stasiuk
ON THE ROAD TO BABADAG: TRAVELS IN THE OTHER EUROPE
European Book Club Discussion

RECOMMENDED BOOKS 2013

POLAND AT BOOKEXPO AMERICA
With crime novelist Marek Krajewski

May 22, 2013

Founding Culture
The Experience Of Central Europe and The USA

May 4, 2013

DEMOCRACY IS CONTROVERSY PLUS SOLIDARITY
In the Absence of Krzysztof Michalski

April 29, 2013 - May 5, 2013

Agata Tuszynska
at PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature

70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING

VERA GRAN - THE ACCUSED
Book launch tour with author, Agata Tuszynska

February 20, 2013

SMUGGLERS AND SPIES:
The Question of Jewish (non)Support of the 1863 Polish Uprising
Discussion with Prof. Glenn Dynner (Sarah Lawrence College)

January 22, 2013 - February 28, 2013

THE AUSCHWITZ VOLUNTEER
Beyond Bravery
Historian Timothy Snyder (Yale University),
in conversation with Museum Director David G. Marwell

January 22, 2013 - February 18, 2013

THE WORLD KNEW
Jan Karski's Mission for Humanity

Exhibition

November 15, 2012 - November 17, 2012

2012 NEW LITERATURE FROM EUROPE
Artistic Fictions / Fictional Artists

September 27, 2012

Wieslaw Mysliwski
STONE UPON STONE
European Book Club Discussion

2012 FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD
awarded to Joanna Trzeciak

June 5, 2012 - June 7, 2012

Poland at BookExpo America
With author Wilhelm Dichter

April 30, 2012 - May 7, 2012

WOJCIECH JAGIELSKI AT
PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL OF
INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE

2012 FOUND IN TRANSLATION Award
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Deadline: March 15, 2012

WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
Nobel Prize-winning poet
1923-2012

THE YEAR OF JANUSZ KORCZAK

November 15, 2011 - November 20, 2011

CRIME SCENE: EUROPE
The 8th Annual New Literature from Europe Festival
featuring Zygmunt Miloszewski

October 24, 2011 - December 17, 2011

MILOSZ AND AMERICA
Exhibition from the Milosz Papers
With Conference November 4-5, 2011

October 7, 2011 - October 24, 2011

BLACK SQUARE
BY POLISH POET TADEUSZ DABROWSKI

October 2, 2011

FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD, 2011
CLARE CAVANAGH and STANISLAW BARANCZAK, WINNERS

September 30, 2011 - October 3, 2011

AFTER MILOSZ
Polish Poetry In The 20th & 21st Centuries

September 18, 2011 - October 11, 2011

LIBERATURE
POETRY AND BOOK ARTS
COMBINED ON US TOUR

May 25, 2011

Olga Tokarczuk: Primeval and Other Times
European Book Club Discussion

April 25, 2011 - May 1, 2011

PIOTR SOMMER, MYKOLA RYABCHUK,
AND A WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA DOCUMENTARY AT
PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL
OF INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE

March 30, 2011 - April 1, 2011

NONCONFORMISM AND DISSENT
IN THE SOVIET BLOC:
GUIDING LEGACY OR PASSING MEMORY?

Conference with Ewa Wojciak, Henryk Wujec, Anna Frajlich, and others

March 28, 2011

THE TENTH MUSE
Adam Zagajewski introduces
Tomasz Rozycki and Marie Lundquist

March 24, 2011

A POET'S PROSE: THE POETIC VISION
OF ZBIGNIEW HERBERT
WITH EDWARD HIRSCH, CHARLES SIMIC, ALISSA VALLES AND ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

March 23, 2011

Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics:
Russia, Poland, and the West
Evening with National Book Critics Circle Award Winning author Clare Cavanagh

March 21, 2011

A CELEBRATION OF CZESLAW MILOSZ
WITH CLARE CAVANAGH, ROBERT HASS, AND ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

2011 FOUND IN TRANSLATION Award
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Deadline: March 15, 2011

November 14, 2010

Milosz Biedrzycki and Tone Skrjanec

Poetry Reading

November 8, 2010 - November 24, 2010

OLGA TOKARCZUK

North American Tour:
Chicago, Durham, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto

September 27, 2010

DANUTA BORCHARDT wins
2010 FOUND IN TRANSLATION Award

Award Ceremony: University of Illinois at Chicago

September 12, 2010

THE POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE AT
THE 2010 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL

featuring bestselling author and playwright
Dorota Maslowska
and celebrated poet Milosz Biedrzycki

September 10, 2010 - October 7, 2010

DOROTA MASLOWSKA IN RESIDENCE AT LEDIG HOUSE
with appearances @ THE BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
& THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

August 28, 2010 - November 16, 2010

MILOSZ BIEDRZYCKI

POLAND-U.S. ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
EXCHANGE PROGRAM

May 16, 2010

ANDRZEJ STASIUK'S FADO

IN DISCUSSION AT THE EUROPEAN BOOK CLUB

April 30, 2010

ANDRZEJ STASIUK
AT PEN WORLD VOICES

Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible
A Discussion with Jonathan Lethem, Inga Kuznetsova, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk, moderated by Albert Mobilio

April 28, 2010

ANDRZEJ STASIUK
AT PEN WORLD VOICES

Readings from Around the Globe:
Opening Night Extravaganza
with Salman Rushdie, Patti Smith, Mohsin Hamid and others

April 26, 2010 - May 5, 2010


ON THE ROAD
WITH ANDRZEJ STASIUK AND MONIKA SZNAJDERMAN

April 20, 2010

Andrzej Baranski
SEVERAL PEOPLE, LITTLE TIME

A film on the great experimental poet Miron Bialoszewski,
starring Krystyna Janda and Andrzej Hudziak

April 19, 2010

THE SALT OF STRUCTURE:
A CELEBRATION OF MIRON BIALOSZEWSKI

Reading of work by the great Polish experimental poet
+ Issue Launch of Aufgabe Magazine #9

April 14, 2010

ANDRZEJ STASIUK'S BOOK FADO
IN DISCUSSION AT THE EUROPEAN BOOK CLUB

with Martin Riker, Associate Director of Dalkey Archive Press

Michael Kaufman
(1938-2010)

New York Times correspondent in Poland, 1984-1988, author of Mad Dreams, Saving Graces: Poland: a Nation in Conspiracy (1989), a study of the waning years of Communist Poland.

November 10, 2009

THE WALL IN MY HEAD:
WORDS & IMAGES FROM
THE FALL OF THE IRON CURTAIN
book launch and reading with Dorota Maslowska,
Dan Sociu, and Masha Gessen

part of Performing Revolution
in Central and Eastern Europe

November 5, 2009

POLISH POETRY NOW:
Reading and discussion with
Tadeusz Dabrowski, Bozena Keff,
Marzanna Kielar, Tomasz Rozycki
and translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones

November 3, 2009 - November 4, 2009

POLISH POETRY NOW:
Reading and discussion with
Tadeusz Dabrowski, Bozena Keff,
Marzanna Kielar, Tomasz Rozycki
and translators Bill Johnston and Benjamin Paloff

October 25, 2009 - November 20, 2009

Tomasz Rozycki
in residence at the Vermont Studio Center

POLAND-U.S. ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCY PROGRAM

October 6, 2009 - October 7, 2009

AFTER KAPUSCINSKI:
THE ART OF REPORTAGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
A Public Conversation

September 15, 2009

JERZY PILCH'S NOVEL THE MIGHTY ANGEL
IN DISCUSSION AT THE EUROPEAN BOOK CLUB

September 13, 2009

Wieslaw Mysliwski
THE POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE
AT THE 2009 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
BOOTH 79

May 27, 2009

LITERARY REPORTAGE: THE FORENSICS OF CRISIS
An International Conversation with Wojciech Tochman, Francisco Goldman, and Jonathan Brent
moderated by Marcela Valdes

ANTONIA LLOYD-JONES wins
2009 FOUND IN TRANSLATION Award

April 30, 2008

An evening with Diane Ackerman
author of the best-seller The Zookeeper's Wife
to benefit The Museum of the History of Polish Jews

April 29, 2008 - April 30, 2008

Readings by Magdalena Tulli
Author of flaw, Moving Parts, and Dreams and Stones

April 18, 2008

Bill Johnston
as the recipient of the first
FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD

April 14, 2008

CAFE EUROPA
an Evening of Arts and Letters on the Theme of "Borderlanders"

April 10, 2008 - July 17, 2008

ASTONISHMENTS: SELECTED POEMS OF ANNA KAMIENSKA
edited and translated by Grazyna Drabik & David Curzon, Paraclete Press, July 2007

FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD

September 18, 2007

ASTONISHMENTS: SELECTED POEMS OF ANNA KAMIENSKA
Book launching

April 29, 2007

A TRIBUTE TO RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI
at PEN World Voices Festival

April 27, 2007

Dorota Maslowska
POSTCARDS: CAPTURING PLACE
retrospective

April 10, 2007 - April 11, 2007

Tadeusz Rozewicz
NEW POEMS
book launching

March 15, 2007

A TRIBUTE TO ZBIGNIEW HERBERT

RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI (1932 - 2007)

November 19, 2006

THE POLISH REVIEW

November 12, 2006

Adam Zagajewski, Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska and Tadeusz Rozewicz
PASSION AND WITNESS, A CELEBRATION OF TWENTIETH CENTURY POLISH POETRY

June 4, 2006 - June 10, 2006

50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF JAN LECHON
WARSAW, JUNE 13, 1899 - NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 8, 1956

May 9, 2006

Jerzy Ficowski
poet, Poland's leading authority on the work of Bruno Schulz & the history and culture of the Roma, died at 82

April 26, 2006 - April 29, 2006

Adam Michnik

March 27, 2006

STANISLAW LEM, ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING SCIENCE-FICTION WRITERS, DIED AT THE AGE OF 84

November 20, 2005

BILL JOHNSTON READS FROM HIS TRANSLATION OF MAGDALENA TULLI'S ACCLAIMED NEW NOVEL "MOVING PARTS"
just published by Archipelago Books

October 16, 2005

CONTEMPORARY POLISH AND YIDDISH POETRY

August 10, 2005

POETRY READING

April 22, 2005

TRIBUTE TO CZESLAW MILOSZ
concludes PEN World Voices: The First Annual New York Festival of International Literature

April 1, 2005 - May 31, 2005

Adam Zagajewski
Zagajewski & Hirsch on Milosz; "QUESTION OF HONOR" authors; and Auction benefiting Polish Studies Endowment Fund

February 17, 2005 - February 18, 2005

Adam Zagajewski
A CONVERSATION & THE ANNUAL COPERNICUS LECTURE

December 28, 2004

Susan Sontag
IN MEMORIAM.
JANUARY 16, 1933 - DECEMBER 28, 2004

December 2, 2004

Isaac Bashevis Singer
SINGER ON THE SCREEN:
THE IMAGE OF ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER IN FILM AND TELEVISION
lecture

November 25, 2004 - December 2, 2004

MOI, GOMBROWICZ & WITOLD GOMBROWICZ
docs.

November 18, 2004

Joanna Wiszniewicz
AND YET I STILL HAVE DREAMS:
A STORY OF A CERTAIN LONELINESS
translated and with a foreword by Regina Grol
published by Northwestern University Press

October 22, 2004 - October 23, 2004

Witold Gombrowicz
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CELEBRATING THE THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH

October 1, 2004 - November 30, 2004

Witold Gombrowicz
GOMBROWICZ AUTUMN
program

August 14, 2004

Czeslaw Milosz
Dies at 93 in Krakow

July 25, 2004

Norman Davies
RISING '44 - THE BATTLE FOR WARSAW
60th Anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising

July 11, 2004 - September 5, 2004

Adam Kinaszewski and Isaac Bashevis Singer
WARSAW - LANDSCAPE WITH SINGER
7-part doc. on Isaac Bashevis Singer to mark his July 14 Centennial

April 7, 2003

Henryk Grynberg
DROHOBYCZ, DROHOBYCZ
The Koret Jewish Book Award In Fiction

January 22, 2003 - January 24, 2003

Andrew Nagorski
LAST STOP VIENNA
book launching

January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2004

WITOLD GOMBROWICZ ARCHIVAL INTERNSHIP

November 19, 2002

A TRIBUTE TO BRUNO SCHULZ: 60th ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH

September 24, 2002

Adam Zagajewski
POETRY READING WITH DEREK WALCOTT

March 13, 2002

TRY TO PRAISE THE MUTILATED WORLD. AN EVENING OF CELEBRATION OF CONTEMPORARY POLISH POETRY
Herbert, Milosz, Szymborska, Zagajewski

February 7, 2002

Adam Zagajewski
POETRY READING

December 1, 2001 - January 31, 2002

Witold Szablowski, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Adam Kinaszewski
WARSAW - LANDSCAPE WITH SINGER
7-part doc. on Isaac Bashevis Singer to mark his July 14 Centennial