Book launch: Hanna Jankuta, \u201cKonstytucja\u201d (translated from Belarusian by Bohdan Zadura). The event will feature: Hanna Jankuta \u2013 author, Bohdan Zadura \u2013 translator, Jan Burnatowski \u2013 moderator.<\/p>\n
A collection of poems written in the margins of a country\u2019s fundamental law, this book reflects on what law is, what the world does to humans and what humans do to the world, as well as an attempt to juxtapose political dictatorship with the dictatorship of the Anthropocene. It is a poetic record of the history of a person growing up in an authoritarian society and now experiencing their own geological time in exile \u2013 but also a \u201cConstitution of everything\u201d, from the Big Bang to the moment of \u201chere and now\u201d, telling the story of various creatures that once inhabited and still inhabit the planet. In these poems, the Constitution itself has its own narrative; in times of social upheaval, it becomes a \u201cchronicle of catastrophes\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hanna Jankuta<\/strong> \u2013 Belarusian writer, translator, and literary scholar. She is the author of the novel \u201cCzas chwast\u00f3w\u201d (2023), the poetry collections \u201cGeologia\/Konstytucja\u201d (2022) and \u201cNiezawodny spos\u00f3b na duchy\u201d (2025), books for children, and numerous articles and essays on literature and feminism. She translates from English and Polish. She translated into Belarusian Jane Austen\u2019s \u201cDuma i uprzedzenie\u201d, Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s \u201cNie opuszczaj mnie\u201d, and Sally Rooney\u2019s \u201cNormalni ludzie\u201d. She has translated, among others, poetry by Boles\u0142aw Le\u015bmian, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Adam Mickiewicz, Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz, and Wis\u0142awa Szymborska. Recipient of the Maksim Bahdanowicz Debut Prize (2013), the Belarusian Jerzy Giedroyc Prize (2nd place, 2024), and the Ales Adamovich Prize (2024). Scholarship holder of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Gaude Polonia programme in 2012 and 2021. Her works have been translated into Polish, German, Danish, Italian, Latvian, English, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Lithuanian, Hungarian, and other languages. She currently lives in exile.<\/p>\n Bohdan Zadura<\/strong> (born in 1945 in Pu\u0142awy) \u2013 poet, prose writer, literary critic, and translator. He graduated in philosophy from the University of Warsaw. He made his debut in 1962 in the monthly magazine \u201cKamena\u201d. Between 1970 and 1977, he worked at a museum in Kazimierz Dolny; from 1977 to 1987, he was literary director of the Lublin Theatre of Vision and Movement; from 1980 to 2004, he was editor of the literary quarterly \u201cAkcent\u201d; from 1983 to 2004, editor of the literary monthly \u201cTw\u00f3rczo\u015b\u0107\u201d, and from 2004 to 2020, its editor-in-chief. Co-founder and vice-president of the board of the Eastern Cultural Foundation \u201cAkcent\u201d. He translated from English, Russian, Hungarian, and Ukrainian, including works by Yurii Andrukhovych, Andriy Bondar, Andriy Lyubka, and Vasyl Slapchuk. Recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Stanis\u0142aw Pi\u0119tak Prize (1994), the J\u00f3zef Czechowicz Prize (2010), the Silesius Wroc\u0142aw Poetry Award (2011), the Hryhorii Skovoroda International Literary Prize (2014), the C.K. Norwid Prize (2015), the Artistic Award of the City of Lublin (2018), and the Drahom\u00e1n Prize (2022). Named Ambassador of the East (2023). In 2025, he was a finalist for the Ossolineum Prize for the best poetic translation of \u201cAutoportret w postaci pestki awokado\u201d by Julia Cimafiejewa.<\/p>\n Jan Burnatowski<\/strong> (born in 1984 in Sanok). He received his PhD in humanities based on his dissertation \u201cProza Mariana Pankowskiego jako projekt literatury innowacyjnej\u201d (supervisor: Krzysztof Latawiec, PhD habil.). He is academically affiliated with the Pedagogical University of Krakow.<\/p>\n When:<\/strong> July 3, Friday, 17:30-18:30 About the event Book launch: Hanna Jankuta, \u201cKonstytucja\u201d (translated from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"tags":[],"kraj":[],"typ":[130],"typ-pozamuzyczne":[414,153],"mec_category":[272,274,415,125],"class_list":["post-14133","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry","typ-non-musical-event","typ-pozamuzyczne-2026-en","typ-pozamuzyczne-literature","mec_category-03-07-2","mec_category-03-07-en","mec_category-2026-en","mec_category-non-musical-event"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDetails<\/h2>\n
\nWhere:<\/strong> Workshops of Culture, Grodzka 7 \u2013 patio
\nAdmission free<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"