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Evenings with Polish Reporters V: Phenomenon: Polish Literary Reporting

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: October 26, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Presentation of the book Fenomén: Polská literární reportáž (Phenomenon: Polish Literary Reporting, Karolinum, 2016), the first publication of Polish literary reporting for Czech readers and the result of a conference and debate of the same title that took place last year. The title explores the genre’s history and present and features interviews with leading Polish reporters. 

The book is presented by its co-authors, Igor Borkowski, a professor at the University of Wroclaw, and Polish Studies expert Michala Benešová. A discussion between Ewa Winnicka and Petra Procházková on migration in contemporary Europe, both between individual states and from outside, will follow.

Another meeting in a joint discussion series held in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague in which we explore the phenomenon of the Polish school of literary reporting and its most notable contemporary representatives.

Ewa Winnicka

Polish reporter who previously worked at the daily Gazeta Wyborcza and currently writes for the weekly Polityka. Among her achievements is the book Angole (The Brits, 2014), a collection of reports on the wave of Polish migration to the UK, where in the last decade over 700,000 have gone for work. Winnicka recorded dozens of stories, from successful City managers to disillusioned rubbish sorters with no futures.

Petra Procházková

Lidové noviny reporter, war correspondent and the author of the reportage novel Frišta (2004) and other prose straddling documentary and literary fiction. Procházková is primarily focused on the countries of the former Soviet Union but also travels to crisis spots throughout the world. In 2015 she mapped the journey of a group of Syrian refugees, travelling with them from Turkey to Greece.

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