FRANZ, directed by Agnieszka Holland with music by Trupa Trupa, has been selected as Poland’s official submission for the Academy Awards.
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Gillespie Gallery
On September 30, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, together with Randi Ward, will be hosted at the Gillespie Gallery. This will be one of the events held as part of his residency at the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center and George Mason University, as well as the International Translation Festival.
Jurek Hirschberg
The excellent translator Jurek Hirschberg is currently on a writing residency in Tadeusz Konwicki’s Warsaw apartment, where he is translating five books by Grzegorz Kwiatkowski into Swedish.
Festival of International Writers in Translation
American book Crops, in Peter Constantine’s translation, has been selected as one of the featured books at the Festival of International Writers in Translation.
Rebroadcast from the BBC
On August 22 at 10:00 p.m., the Trupa Trupa concert from BBC Radio 6 Music will be rebroadcast by the Third Program of Polish Radio.
Yale Artist in Residence alert

As the Polish Presidency of the EU Council comes to an end, we speak to Grzegorz Kwiatkowski from the band Trupa Trupa about the grand political landscape, intimate private discoveries, and touring the USA during seismic changes.
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski has become a visiting writer at the American Alan Cheuse International Writers Center and George Mason University.
New York Times
For over a decade, the Polish band Trupa Trupa has been unleashing idiosyncratic blasts of psychedelic rock with a sharp post-punk edge, using music as a form of catharsis as well as activism. The group — Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and Wojtek Juchniewicz on vocals and guitar, plus Tomek Pawluczuk on drums — is now gearing up for the release of their new EP, “Mourners,” along with a performance at New York’s Heaven can wait on March 1.
Review of Ohne Orchester – Literatur und Kritik
Als der polnische Dichter Grzegorz Kwiatkowski noch ein Kind ist, macht sein Großvater mit ihm einen Ausflug. Es ist kein Ausflug, an dessen Ende beide freudig an einem Eis schlecken, einen Drachen steigen lassen oder mit erwärmten Herzen ein Zirkuszelt wieder verlassen. Es ist ein Ausflug in die Vergangenheit, an dessen Ende für Grzegorz Kwiatkowski sich die Frage, warum Menschen einander hassen und umbringen, wie ein Ungeheuer über das Himmelszelt spannt.