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This week our homepage is dedicated to the many cultural connections of Poland and our neighbour Ukraine. We are appalled by the current news and are taking this opportunity to remind readers about the deep links between Poland and Ukraine, and why we are fully behind our Ukrainian brethren during these dark times. Click the image above to see what we have for you.
In our newsletter picks this week, we have chosen four stories about key figures in Polish culture that actually have roots in today’s Ukraine: sci-fi author Stanisław Lem, poet Zuzanna Ginczanka, author Joseph Conrad, and the architect Leszek Władysław Horodecki.
After World War II, Lem never returned to his hometown. But he often referred to Lviv (formerly Lwów) in his books. Which locations were particularly close to the heart of the future author of Solaris?
The name of this Polish architect is little known in Poland, but in Kyiv, the main street is named in his honour. Today, the buildings, churches, train stations and factories that he built are considered as some of the most brilliant architectural monuments in Ukraine and… Iran.
The poet’s birth record was located in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine by poet and translator Natalia Belczenko. In the ledger of a Kiev synagogue for the year 1917, she appears as ‘Birth Number 30’: ‘a daughter, Susanna Polina, born on 9th March’.
The author of The Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, and Lord Jim was born and grew up in partitioned Poland. Yet his literary work is ostensibly devoid of almost any traces of his background. So where should one look for Conrad’s Polishness?
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