For the second year in a row, PETERKA & PARTNERS was delighted to be a partner of the event The Polish-Czech Literary Spring 2019 organized by the Czech Centre in Warsaw. The second annual Polish-Czech Literary Spring was focused on the “common memory of both countries”. This bilateral project was held from April to June with several events on Czech and Polish authors, artists, journalists and translators to Polish, in whose works you can find an emphasis on the topic of memory.
In April, we sponsored a reading of a new Polish version, translated by Leszek Engelking, of the famous Czech novel Saturnin. Another reading was devoted to Viola Fisherová, a Czech poet, who could not publish after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The Polish translation was recited by the Polish actress Maja Komorowska.
In May, the film As If We Could Die Today (Jako bychom dnes zemřít měli) was screened, the life story of Catholic priest Josef Toufar, who was tortured to death by the communists. A discussion followed the screening – about the film and the book it was based upon. And in June, there was a reading by the Polish writer Wiesław Myśliwski, whose work has been translated into Czech.
For more detailed information about the events, please see this link (in Polish).
To see some photos of the event, please open this link.