Author meeting: Paweł Reszka

On October 8 (Thursday) at 5:30pm, we invite you to the Library of Knowledge for an author's meeting with Paweł Piotr Reszka. The topic of discussion will be the author's work, with special emphasis on his latest book. In this house it is no longer scary. Reportage on Jews, Poles and Fate” by Paweł Piotr Reszka (published by Agora Publishing House) is an extremely moving and difficult reportage. This is not another purely historical story about World War II. The author writes about specific people and the unimaginable drama that became their part. The main question of this reportage is: what happens to this memory today? How do these traumas and secrets function in Polish and Jewish families today? Does the evil of the ancestors cast a shadow on their descendants, and is there any inevitable fate hanging over these places? About these years of difficult conversations, about fear and an attempt to reckon with the past, we will talk with the author himself.

The meeting will be led by an employee of the Library of Knowledge, Karol Żachowski.

Paweł Piotr Reszka was born in Bydgoszcz. He is a graduate of history at UMCS and postgraduate journalism studies at the University of Warsaw. Reporter of “Large Format”, former journalist and editor of the Lublin branch of “Gazeta Wyborcza”. Author of the books Devil and the Chocolate Tablet (award for Best Book 2015 at the 1st Reportage Festival in Lublin and the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize for Literary Reportage 2015), Płuczki. The seekers of Jewish gold (finalist of the “Nike” Literary Award and the “Gdynia” Literary Award, finalist of the Central European Literary Award “Angelus” and the Grand Press 2020 competition, finalist of the 8th edition of the Teresa Torańska Newsweek Awards), White flakes, golden middle. Family stories, In this house it no longer scares. Reports on Jews, Poles and fate. Author of numerous reports that have appeared in anthologies: 20 years of the new Poland in reportages according to Mariusz Szczygła, Questions that are not asked. 12 reporters. 12 important answers, Hope.

Free admission.