Szacki, Jakub, Geralt i inni. Współczesna polska literatura po nowogrecku – rekonesans
Szacki, Jakub, Geralt et al. Contemporary Polish literature in Modern Greek – a reconnaissance

Author(s): Przemysław Kordos
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Polish literature; Greece; translation; fantasy; poetry
Summary/Abstract: Polish literature still has little presence in Greece: just over a hundred items have been translated in the last hundred years, but only a handful of them persist in the collective memory. In school, Greek children read single poems by Wislawa Szymborska. The works of other Nobel Prize winners are also translated, but – like those of a few novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz – are not reissued. On the other hand, fantasy writers such as Stanisław Lem and Andrzej Sapkowski have a strong position on the publishing market. It also seems that Polish poetry is more popular than prose, and drama is almost absent. The situation has changed radically in the last dozen years or so: the Polish programme supporting translations into foreign languages has caused a kind of boom on the publishing market. Thanks to it, more than 20% of translations have been produced recently, with funding. So one can probably look optimistically to the future.

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