When : 26th September 2012 - 6:30pm
Where : Toxteth Community Library
Price : Free
Merseyside Polonia, a Liverpool based organisation creating links between Polish and British culture is launching the definitive biography of one of the most significant journalists of the twentieth century with the author : Artur Domoslawski and award wining translator of the book Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
The event is hosted by Merseyside Polonia and organised in partnership with Verso - the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world as well as supported by the Polish Cultural Institute, Wspólnota Polska and English PEN's Writers in Translation programme. Now in to its seventh year, the programme aims to celebrate books of outstanding literary value, dedication to free speech and inter-cultural understanding.
This event is a part of series of events oragnised in a few major cities in the UK over September 2012. Please see details here :http://www.versobooks.com/events
The Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapuściński, reporting from such varied locations as postcolonial Africa, revolutionary Iran, the military dictatorships of Latin America and Soviet Russia, was one of the most influential eyewitness journalists of the twentieth century. During the Cold War, he was a dauntless investigator as well as a towering literary talent and his books founded the new genre of ‘literary reportage’. It was an achievement that brought him global renown, not to mention the uninvited attentions of the CIA.
In his major new biography of Ryszard Kapuściński, Artur Domoslawski shines new light on the personal relationships of this intensely charismatic, highly private man, and the intractable issue at the heart of Kapuściński’s life and work: the question of where journalism ends and literature begins.
Artur Domosławski writes on international politics for the weekly review Polityka and for the Polish edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, and for two decades reported for the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. In 2010 he received Poland's prestigious Journalist of the Year award. A Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2005–6, he is the author of five books, and is currently working on a book about contemporary Latin America.
Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a an award-wininng translator of Polish literature, and author. Her published translations include fiction by several of Poland’s leading contemporary novelists, including The Last Supper by Paweł Huelle and The Night Wanderers by Wojciech Jagielski, reportage about the child victims of the Lord’s Resistance Army and the events in Uganda which led to its emergence – and of course Artur Domoslawski's biography, Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life.
There will be time for questions and discussion with the author and the translator as well as a chance to buy books and get them signed by the author!
Thanks to the supporters this event is FREE of charge.
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