European Book Club Reads "Primeval and Other Times"
If I was on last year’s BTBA fiction panel, I would have lobbied hard for Olga Tokarczuk’s Primeval and Other Times, a fascinating book about a small Polish village, its inhabitants, and all that happens to them over the course of the twentieth century. It’s a wonderful book that’s built out of small, ...
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Events To Attend
Our events calendar is a bit empty right now (if you’re hosting—or attending—any interesting events related to international literature, please e-mail us so that we can include it on that calendar to the right . . ), but there are a number of interesting events coming up that might be of ...
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Antonia Lloyd-Jones Receives the Found in Translation Award
It was recently announced that Antonia Lloyd-Jones has received this year’s Found in Translation Award for her translation of Pawel Huelle’s The Last Supper. (Which is available in the UK from Serpent’s Tail, and has a U.S. pub date of December 1, 2009.) Huelle is a big name in Polish literature, and ...
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Mighty Angel in European Book Club
As officially announced at Bacacay, (the official blog of the Polish Cultural Institute in New York) Jerzy Pilch’s The Mighty Angel has been selected as the September title for the European Book Club. It’s an honor to have one of our titles selected for this program, especially since this is the first time the ...
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Bacacay: The Polish Literature Weblog
The Polish Cultural Institute in New York recently launched Bacacay, a new blog with info on Polish literature for English-language readers, translators, reviewers, publishers, and so on. Even though the site is brand new, Bill Martin has done a great job putting together some really interesting, informative posts, such as ...
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Polish Cultural Institute
We don’t post a lot of job info here at Three Percent, but every once in a while when something particularly interesting comes along, I feel like I should pass it on. Well, yesterday afternoon I got this e-mail from the Polish Cultural Institute in New York: It is my pleasure to let you know that the Polish ...
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