Joining Edinburgh, Iowa City, and Melbourne, last week Kraków, Poland was named a UNESCO “City of Literature.”  Each year since 2004, UNESCO chooses one city for this designation, based on… Read more »

Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died at her home in Krakow yesterday.  She was 88 years old. According to a New York Times obituary, “Szymborska, a heavy smoker, died in… 1 / Read more »

“At a time when publishers are fixated on writers who can sell 500,000 copies or more,” Drenka Willen “publishes books in translation, where a title that sells 10,000 copies is… Read more »