| WYDAWNICTWO LITERACKIE was founded in 1953, and for over half a century has been creating and promoting the most interesting literary phenomena and the most outstanding writers from Poland and abroad. Among the writers affiliated with the publishing house are Nobel-Prize winners Orhan Pamuk, Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz and Nadine Gordimer, as well as such important figures as: Janusz Anderman, Włodzimierz Bolecki, Przemysław Czapliński, Jacek Dukaj, Aleksander Fiut, Witold Gombrowicz, Zbigniew Herbert, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Marek S.Huberath, Maria Janion, Jerzy Jarzębski, Ryszard Kapuściński, Jan Kott, Stanisław Lem, Ewa Lipska, Jerzy Pilch, Tadeusz Różewicz, Marian Stala, Jan Józef Szczepański, Dorota Terakowska, Olga Tokarczuk, Jan Twardowski, Jerzy Sosnowski, Teresa Walas, Karol Wojtyła, Adam Zagajewski and many others.
Its name has been associated with literary publications for many years, including Polish and foreign titles, essays, memoirs, conversations with writers, and more recently educational titles as well: dictionaries, lexicons, and textbooks for humanities courses and learning foreign languages.
Wydawnictwo Literackie is constantly expanding its foreign fiction list, whose authors include Lisa Appignanesi, John Banville, Lluis-Anton Baulenas, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Bernhard, Jorge Luis Borges, Didier van Cauwelaert, Susanna Clarke, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Joel Egloff, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, T.S.Eliot, Carlos Fuentes, Jason Goodwin, Nick Hornby, Ivan Klima, David Mitchell, Garth Nix, Ian Ogilvy, Bulat Okudzhava, Sylvia Plath, Octavo Paz, Matthew Pearl, Gonzague Saint Bris, Philippe Segur, Graham Swift, John Updike, Michel Vittoz and Virginia Woolf.
Wydawnictwo Literackie has confirmed its position thanks to its well-known editorial undertakings, including editions of the classic works of Polish literature and the greatest contemporary writers, both from Poland and abroad.
Bilingual series
Literary Texts
The Library of "Young Poland" Poetry
Couples Series
German Language Writers Series
Monographs |
