📅 September 15, 2025, 7:00 PM The meeting with the author will be hosted by Justyna Sobolewska. Excerpts from the book will be read by Mariusz Bonaszewski. 📍 Foyer of the New Theatre / New Bookstore Free admission New book: "If Not for Black" by Filip Zawada, Znak Publishing A subversive family saga. A shameless manifesto of voyeurism. The grand return of Filip Zawada. - Róża surprises with comebacks faster than a laser, and her self-confidence could be shared with the entire family. - Trytek, her brother, takes dreams deadly seriously, and it was clear from childhood that he would become a degenerate. - Their parents, Halia and Andrzej, form a couple causing destruction greater than Armageddon. - Grandma Edwarda explains the complexities of life with the subtlety of a cannon. Even Hades can't keep this crew in check. Welcome to the Mraz family. Here, everything works in reverse – as if someone flipped the manual for daily life. Children see more than adults, rules are learned outside the home, and grandmothers can be adopted. Filip Zawada weaves a subversive family saga that unfolds even in the afterlife. It's well known that the best way to get along with family is... after death. Extreme emotions and existential questions mix here with bluntness, absurd humor, and a cocktail of literary tropes. An inimitable novel! Filip Zawada – his prose can be recognized after just a few words. Known for addressing family themes in a unique, bittersweet way. A man familiar with every form of artistic expression: writer, musician, painter, author of award-winning plays. Finalist for the Nike Literary Award 2020 for the novel "I Accidentally Stepped on a Black Cat." Nominated for the Gdynia Literary Award for "Train Dogs" (2012) and "It Was Sunny" (2015). Polish champion in field archery. Justyna Sobolewska – literary critic, writer, and journalist permanently associated with the weekly "Polityka." Author of the essay collection "A Book About Reading" (2012, 2016), the selection of Kornel Filipowicz's stories "My Beloved, Proud Province" (2017), and the biography "Miron, Ilia, Kornel. A Biographical Tale About Kornel Filipowicz" (2020), nominated for the Upper Silesian Literary Award "Juliusz." Co-author of the book "A Hundred. Read It Again" written together with Anna Dziewit Meller (2021). Winner of the PIK Laurel awarded by the Polish Chamber of Books for promoting reading in the category of print media. She chairs the jury of the Warsaw Literary Award and serves on the jury of the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award and the Angelus Central European Literary Award. Illustration of the series: Jarosław Danilenko
