Category: No category

Weronika Ciura from Jagiellonian University wrote a bachelor’s thesis titled “A multimodal experience of poetry. About the poetry and works of Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and the “Trupa Trupa” group.”

This is the cover of a new novel by the great American writer Jeff VanderMeer (you might know the film adaptation of his book “Annihilation” starring Natalie Portman).

“Green Border,” directed by Agnieszka Holland and featuring music by Trupa Trupa, has just hit US cinemas. The film has received great reviews from major publications including The New York Times, Vulture, Rolling Stone, NPR, and Time.

Grzegorz Kwiatkowski will be a guest at the international 29th edition of the “Transport Literacki” festival, organized by his publisher, Biuro Literackie.

Some time ago, I informed you about an important article in The Guardian concerning tens of thousands of shoes rotting in the forest near the Stutthof concentration camp museum. Kate Connolly wrote a report on this scandalous situation. After the publication of the text, Kate and I had a Zoom conversation with Manfred Goldberg, a man who was a prisoner in this camp and who saw the piles of shoes with his own eyes.

Good news from Oddbjørn Hansen: “You are now part of the collections of The National Library of Norway.”

The excellent text by Kate Connolly about abandoned shoes in Sztutowo also appeared in the Guardian Weekly magazine, which publishes a selection of the most interesting and important texts from this journal. The author of the following photos is Bartosz Bańka.

Grzegorz Kwiatkowski has been nominated for the Splendor Gedanensis award for his book “Zagadka.

In Poland, History, Politics and Memory Remain Deeply and Painfully Intertwined. A visit to Jewish and cultural sites across Poland reveals a country looking to move on from eight years of populist rule that turned the Holocaust into a political minefield.

At the foot of a pine tree, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski bent to touch the black, moist shapes nestling amid the fungi and leaf mulch. “I’ve been monitoring this area now since 2015, and always hope I won’t stumble upon anything any more and that one day the entire area will have been cleared,” he said. This, however, was not that day.