November 15, 2024 (Friday), 6:00 PM

Meeting in the main hall

🆓 Free admission

🌐 More information: https://bit.ly/czytelnia_smolenski

The meeting is co-organized by Wydawnictwo Czarne

Paweł Smoleński (1959—2023) — reporter, publicist, worked as a journalist for 'Gazeta Wyborcza' since 1989, previously collaborated with underground publications. For 'Israel No Longer Flies,' he received the Beata Pawlak Award in 2006. For 'Wormwood Syrup,' he was nominated for the Kazimierz Moczarski Historical Award in 2018, and for 'Red Snow on Etna,' he was nominated for the readers' award of the monthly 'Kraków i Świat' in the 'Portraits' competition.

He is also a laureate of the Kurt Schork Award, the Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Award, the award from the Lviv magazine 'Ji' – the most important Ukrainian cultural studies journal, and the Premio Kapuściński awarded by the Italian Geographical Society, the Festival della Letteratura di Viaggio, and the family of Ryszard Kapuściński.

We cordially invite you to a conversation about Paweł Smoleński in the second November edition of the POLIN Reading Room. The journalist, writer, and friend will be discussed by Aleksandra Boćkowska, Wojciech Jagielski, and Jarosław Mikołajewski. The conversation will be led by Jakub Halcewicz.