Poetic Autumn: Author's meeting with Antoni Pawlak

Antoni Pawlak has thirty books in his oeuvre, including volumes of poems, documentary prose, journalistic texts and memoirs about Paweł Adamowicz. His last collection of poetry But without absolution was published in 2020 and was honored with the “Wind from the Sea” Literary Award. The author also received the literary prize of the Kościelski Foundation (1983), as well as a silver medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis (2009) and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polish Restitution (2011).

He participated in the August strike in 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard. In martial law, he was interned. From 1989 to 1993 he worked at Gazeta Wyborcza. From 2006 he served as cultural adviser to the President of Gdańsk, and from 2007 to 2017 he was his spokesman.

We invite you to a meeting in which poetry will be intertwined with a conversation about the political life and history of Gdańsk!