Evenings with Polish Reporters VI: The Assassination from Apricot City
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: November 24, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00
Does Turkey belong to East or West? Are we capable of comprehending its contemporary face? The Polish reporter Witold Szabłowski and the Turkish Studies expert and first Czech ambassador to Turkey Tomáš Laně will discuss a dynamic country where Islam meets Islamophobia, conservatism meets postmodernism and a thirst for Europe meets euro-scepticism.
Witold Szabłowski’s reportage debut The Assassination from Apricot City: Reportage from Turkey met with great success in Poland and internationally and was translated into English, German, Russia and now Czech (Dokořán a Jaroslava Jiskrová – Máj, 2016). Bára Gregorová will introduce the book, which drew on the author’s experience of a yearlong stay in Turkey.
The final gathering this year in a discussion series held by the Polish Institute in Prague and the Václav Havel Library in which we explore the phenomenon of the Polish school of literary reporting and its most notable contemporary representatives.