Around Czapski — meeting with Andrzej Franaszek

Józef Czapski — a man of many dimensions. First of all a painter, but also a writer, a diarist, an art critic, a soldier or a witness to history... A friend. An inspiring, sensitive friend of many people, often distant from him by a generation or two.

In the conversation about Józef Czapski, Prof. Andrzej Franaszek and Dr. Agata Janiak will meet.

Andrzej Franaszek (1971) — literary critic, biographer, lecturer at the University of the National Education Commission in Cracow, laureate of the City of Krakow Award. He has published books: Dark Source. Essay on suffering in the work of Zbigniew Herbert (London, 1998; ed. II: Kraków, 2008), Pass from Hell. 44 sketches about literature and the adventures of the soul (Kraków, 2010); Miłosz. Biography (Kraków, 2011; ed. II: Kraków, 2024; for which he received, among others, the Kościelski Foundation Award, the Nike Readers' Award of “Gazeta Wyborcza”, the Kazimierz Wyka Award and the Prize of the Minister of Culture and National Education); Herbert. Biography, vol. 1-2 (Kraków, 2018) and Gwiazda Piołun. Tales of poetry, travel and friendship (2022). For several years he has been working on a monograph on the life and work of Józef Czapski.

Agata Janiak — Doctor of Humanities in the field of literary studies. PhD on Essay by Józef Czapski. She defended poetics and metaphysics at the University of Wrocław in 2017, her work was distinguished in the Competition for the “Archive of Emigration” Award. Author of the book The One Who Sees. On the literary work of Józef Czapski (2020), editor of the volume Czytać Czapski (2015). Head of the Manuscripts Department at the Ossoliński National Institute.

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