Alongside the Warsaw International Book Fair and the Book Trade Fair in Krakow, the Wroclaw Good Book Promotion is a significant and highly valued promotional and trade event whose primary aim is to popularize good books, i.e. those that represent quality in substantive, literary, artistic, and design terms.

The winner of the National Best Book of the Year Competition for the "Pioro Fredry /Pen of Fredro" is the Wydawnictwo BOSZ publishing house for its album "Zielniki / Herbaria" with autographs of Wislawa Szymborska's verses illustrated by Elka Holowenko-Matuszewska.

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For the last twelve years, some of the best Polish publishers have been meeting in Wroclaw during the first week of December for the Wroclawskie Promocje Dobrych Ksiazek / Wroclaw Good Book Promotion. Alongside the Warsaw International Book Fair (more about 2003 edition...) and the Book Trade Fair in Krakow (more about 2003 edition...), the Wroclaw Good Book Promotion is a significant and highly valued promotional and trade event whose primary aim is to popularize good books, i.e. those that represent quality in substantive, literary, artistic, and design terms.

A handful of prestigious Wroclaw-based publishing houses have organized the Promotion in the past.

The event is both respected and popular among readers, a fact confirmed by the number of visitors it draws. Today they total more than twelve thousand people from Wroclaw and Lower Silesia.

Each year the Wroclaw Good Book Promotion hosts a number of exceptional Polish writers and columnists, who come to the city to meet with the public and discuss literature with their readers. Until now the Promotion's guests included: Czeslaw Milosz, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, Jerzy Pilch, Olga Tokarczuk, Katarzyna Grochola, Malgorzata Musierowicz, Krzysztof Varga, ks. Jan Twardowski, Jacek Zakowski, Wieslaw Mysliwski, Janusz Glowacki, Krystyna Siesicka, Daniel Passent, Tomasz Wolek, prof. Jan Miodek, Lech Janerka, Dorota Terakowska, prof. Jerzy Bralczyk, Tomasz Piatek, Irek Grin.

The National Best Book of the Year Competition for the "Pioro Fredry /Pen of Fredro" has been part of the Promotion for twelve years, becoming a fixture of the program. The competition aims to distinguish the best books published in Poland during a given year and to reward their publishers and authors. Books are assessed for their literary and educational value, as well as for edition quality and artistic design. The volumes nominated for competition are evaluated by a special committee made up of exceptional representatives of the academic, literary, and artistic communities of Wroclaw and other cities. Prizes include diplomas and unique artworks by Wroclaw artists, whose awards reference the name of the competition. In 2002, winners received a silver statuette created by Wroclaw-based goldsmith Andrzej Bandkowski.

Upon the event’s conclusion, the organizers make a gift of all the books entered in the competition to needy libraries (e.g. those destroyed in recent flooding). Last year, books submitted for competition were granted to the library of the Polish Institute in Prague.

This year will mark the third time the event will also feature the Dolnosląska Nagroda Literacka / Lower Silesia Literary Award for the most interesting newly published volume. This award is sponsored by the Center of Culture and Art.

Authors of some of the best children’s books have been invited to meet with the youngest readers in the Play Room. There, in a storybook setting and under professional supervision, children will have an opportunity to listen to many stories and see a play mounted especially for them.

Organization:
Osrodek Kultury i Sztuki we Wroclawiu
tel. (48 71) 344 28 64
co-operation:
Wydawnictwo Dolnosląskie i Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych we Wroclawiu

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