Poles and a Korean
The festival will last from the 1st till the 5th of October in the Nowe Horyzonty Cinema in Wroclaw. Among invited guests there are many authors from Poland, such as Andrzej Stasiuk, Krzysztof Varga, Grażyna Plebanek, Inga Iwasiów, Marek Bieńczyk, Janusz Rudnicki, Andrzej Sosnowski, Dorota Masłowska or Wioletta Grzegorzewska. There will also be writers from abroad. For the first time, the festival will be visited by an author from South Korea - the poet and prose writer Han Kang, Iban Zaldua will arrive from the Basque Country, and fans of Irish prose will listen to Philip Ó Ceallaigh. Apart from that, writers from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein will read fragments of their books.
Representatives of the „Czech Sea” project from the Moře Klidu" Association will talk about an attempt to create a sea in Czech Republic, Justyna Czechowska will present the less popular "adult" works of Tove Jansson, and Szymon Kloska, Marta Jordan and Krzysztof Varga will reflect on short stories by Julio Cortàzar.
During a discussion panel to be held under the project "Transgressions – an international exchange of narratives”, Adriana Prodeus, Anna Herbut, Agnieszka Drotkiewicz, Katarzyna Roj and Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało will talk about private and public transgressions of artists and about crossing the borders in art.
"Nowe Marzy"
This will be the title of an anthology accompanying the Short Story Festival. The premiere of this post-competition anthology will take place on the 1st of October at 5 p.m. in the Księgarnia Hiszpańska bookshop. Editors of the book - Natasza Goerke, Marta Mizuro and Dariusz Sośnicki – will participate in the meeting, and finalists of the competition whose texts have been included in the publication will also read fragments of their stories.
"The twenty authors whose short stories we have selected (from among 450 works submitted for the competition entitled „NOWE MARZY”) present their visions of yesterday, today and tomorrow. In their imagination, they create both the history that they cannot remember and the history that nobody knows yet. But many of them take up an even more difficult challenge by piecing their stories together from elements that can be checked in reality. What they have in common, is the lack of illusions, which leads to the conclusion that any effort to produce an anthology entitled 'Nice and pleasant' in Poland would presumably fail,” write the editors of the anthology in the introduction.
Films by Mrożek, exhibitions and concerts
The festival will begin with an exhibition of drawings by Tomasz Broda, on which the Wroclaw artist presents in his characteristic manner the writers who are taking part in the festival. The vernissage of the exhibition will take place in the Szewska Pasja Gallery at ul. Szewska on Wednesday the 1st of October at 4 p.m.
The program of film shows accompanying the festival is particularly extensive this year. There are reasons to expect that the first Polish cinema show of feature films directed by Sławomir Mrożek will be a unique event. Apart from that, the program includes interpretations of works by Vladimir Nabokov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky or Zofia Nałkowska. Discussions accompanying the shows will be dominated by reflections on doubles, interpretations and differences arising on the borderland of literature and film.
There will be an opportunity to see films such as "Storytelling" by Todd Solondz and “The Double" by Richard Ayoade. On Sunday, the youngest spectators will see “The Witches” by Nicolas Roeg.
The 10th International Short Story Festival is accompanied by concerts. On Saturday at 9 p.m. Mister D will perform – Bartosz Sadulski characterised this band as a “stock composed of Kubota flip-flops, sausage with mayonnaise, Żabka and Biedronka shops, between the shelves of which Dorota Masłowska feels freer than in an antiquarian bookshop with mouldy prose.” On Sunday, we will listen to “Nowe opowieści hiszpańskie” (New Spanish stories) – a project of an outstanding jazzman Marcin Oleś that combines music and micropresentations of new Spanish prose translated and performed by Marta Eloy Cichocka.
Entrance to literary presentations, discussions and meetings with authors is free.
The detailed program and information about entrance passes and tickets to films and concerts are available at: www.opowiadanie.org.
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The International Short Story Festival 2014-2016 is co-financed from the funds of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and from the funds of the City of Wroclaw under the European Capital of Culture 2016 program. The co-organiser of the festival is the Impart 2016 Festival Office.
