Calendar of Cultural Events

Please verify dates and times with The Kosciuszko Foundation Director of Cultural Affairs
Tom Pniewski -- (212) 734-2130 ext. 214

Saturday May 8 at 5:30 PM

Magdalena Tulli, one of Poland's leading writers, will be honored at a book launch party celebrating her latest book, Dreams and Stone, on Saturday, May 8, at the Kosciuszko Foundation (15 East 65th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues). She will be joined by her translator, Bill Johnston; they will present readings in Polish and English. The event, which begins at 5:30 PM is sponsored by Archipelago Books, which published Dreams and Stones; the Kosciuszko Foundation; the Polish Consulate; and PEN American Center. There is no charge, but reservations are requested, and can be made by calling the Kosciuszko Foundation Office at (212) 734- 2130. A reception and book signing with both writers will follow. To read a selection from Dreams and Stones, visit www.wordswithoutborders.org

Ms. Tulli won Poland's prestigious Koscielski Award in 1995 for Dreams and Stones. Born in 1955, she is a psychologist by training, and a polar explorer by choice. She writes fiction and translates from French and Italian (authors including Marcel Proust, Italo Calvino and Fleur Jaeggy). Ms. Tulli has published three novels, has also won prizes awarded by by the journal of international writing Literatura na Swiecie, and has been nominated for the NIKE award. She lives in Warsaw. In Dreams and Stones,  Magdalena Tulli explores the nature of the city.  The book,  which some critics called a tract and others a prose poem, has no solid plot, but is rather a set of different treatments of the same basic theme, which is Warsaw; it includes features of all the cities in the world, has a real map and a phantom one, and is subject to an external straitjacket as well as centrifugal chaos. The writer conducts a psychoanalysis of the city, exploring its "conscious" and "sub-conscious" in language of great lyricism.  For additional information, call the Foundation at (212) 734-2130.

All events take place at the Foundation House, unless otherwise noted. Programs subject to change. Click here for directions.

Kosciuszko Foundation programs are supported by the Mary F. Koons Charitable Trust, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Tadeusz Solowij Literary Fund, and the KF Cultural Fund.