Polish institutions in Brussels were invited to participate in the National Reading campaign – Polish Novellas, organized by the Polish School – Daskalia and the Polish Library in Leuven.
To read, novels chosen by the Presidential Couple, from Romanticism to the interwar period, representatives of science, diplomacy and European institutions were invited. Among them were: Dr. Ewa Synowiec, Director of Trade at the European Commission; HE Artur Orzechowski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Kingdom of Belgium; dr Alicja Gęścińska, philosopher, writer; Monika Pruska, director of Polish School in Antwerp; prof. Jan Dierick, coordinator of the Polish section of the University of KU Leuven; prof. dr Kris van Heuckelom, Polish philologist at the University of KU Leuven; Agnieszka Walter-Drop, director general in the European Parliament and prof. Małgorzata Molęda-Zdziech, director of the Polish Science Contact Agency PolSCA, who read “The Plowing” of Władysław Reymont.
This year’s full reading list included the following books:
Good lady – Eliza Orzeszkowa;
Smoke – Maria Konopnicka
Barrel organ – Bolesław Prus
My father joins the firefighters (from the collection: Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą) – Bruno Schulz
Plowing – Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Ravens and crows will peck us … – Stefan Żeromski
Sachem – Henryk Sienkiewicz
Sawa (from the cycle: Souvenirs of Soplica) – Henryk Rzewuski
The Polish School-Daskalia in Leuven has prepared a film from this event, which we share below:
