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The Warsaw Book Fair is just around the corner!

The second edition of the Warsaw Book Fair will be held on 12–15 May 2011 in the Palace of Culture and Science. As many as 568 companies will participate as exhibitors. This year the fair will have a much richer programme of accompanying events. Apart from exhibitors from Poland, there will be representatives of the book market from Armenia, Australia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, India, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. The Warsaw Book Fair is organised by the company Targi Książki, established in 2010 by publishers and the trade fair company Murator EXPO.

 

The Fair
In comparison to the last year’s edition, the 2nd Warsaw Book Fair will occupy a much larger exhibition area and will now include the Lower and Upper Lobby of the Congress Hall. Almost all participants of the last years’ Fair have decided to come back this year, but there will also be important debuts. Among the newcomers at the Warsaw Book Fair there will be: from Poland – Arkady, Drukarnia Opolgraf, HELION, Iskry, PLATON, Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, the University of Silesia, the University of Rzeszów, W.A.B, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, from Germany – the Frankfurt Book Fair with a collective stand of 30 German publishers and Klopotek & Partner GmbH; Greece will be represented by the company DigiBooks4All; Sweden – by the publishing house Berhs Förlag AB. There will also be representatives of the Czech Republic (the printing house Graspo), the Taipei International Book Fair with a group of Taiwanese publishers, the Moscow Book Fair with a representation of Russian publishers, BIEF (Bureau international de l'édition française) with French publishers, as well as the Australian Publishers Association with a representation of Australian publishers.

 

Nominations, Awards, Commendations
Many prestigious literary award ceremonies will he held at this year’s Warsaw Book Fair and many important nominations and commendations will be announced there:
 

• 1. Nominations to the Literary Award GDYNIA (the city of Gdynia)
• 2. Nominations to the Literary Award NIKE (Gazeta Wyborcza and Fundacja Agory)
• 3. 51st edition of the Competition for the Most Beautiful Books of the Year, under honorary patronage of the First Lady of the Republic of Poland Anna Komorowska (Polish Book Publishers Association)
• 4. Nominations and the award ceremony of the Publishing-Bookselling Season Award IKAR (Polish Book Publishers Association)
• 5. Magellan Award – Competition for the “Best Tourist Publications” (Biblioteka Analiz sp. z o.o.)
• 6. Competition for the Best Children’s Book “Przecinek i kropka” (EMPIK)
• 7. Jerzy and Hanna Kuryłowicz Award for young translators (Sponsor: Andrzej Kuryłowicz)
• 8. Meetings with the nominees to the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage (the award has been established by the City Council of the Capital City of Warsaw. The competition is co-organised by Gazeta Wyborcza, and Mrs. Alicja Kapuścińska is its honorary patron)
• 9. Award of the Polish Cultural Foundation for the promotion of Polish books abroad
• 10. Announcement of the rules of the competition “Zaczarowany Ołówek” for publishers and authors of children’s books organised by “Contur” Creators Association and Studio Se-Ma-For
• 11. Announcement of the topic of this year’s competition from the cycle Rising `44 in Comics (Warsaw Rising Museum) and promotion of the anthology of comic strips Morowe panny – meeting with the winners.

Forum of New Technologies and Other Events for Professionals
As it was during the last year’s edition, new technologies play an important role at the 2nd Warsaw Book Fair. On the exhibition floor (PKiN level 4), companies offering audiobooks, e-book readers, and other related services will be presenting their products in one sector. There will also be a demonstration area nearby for direct presentation and promotion of products – the Forum of New Technologies – or an e-forum. The following companies will be presenting their products and services there: Inpingo, Virtulalo, Save up, (Thursday, 12 may), Bookoteka.pl, Klopotek, Digibooks4all, Asbis (Friday, 13 may), Azymut, Towarzystwo Literackie Ligatur (Saturday, 14 May), xbook.pl (Sunday, 15 May).
 

For the first time, the Fair will offer the e-book-cafe – the first polish café with electronic books, where visitors will not only be able to have a cup of excellent coffee, but also will be able to familiarize themselves with modern devices for reading electronic books, such as e-readers with electronic paper (e-ink) technology or tablets and smartphones.

 

The programme also includes many interesting events, such as meetings with authors of e-books, with well-known authors of traditional books, as well as with so called self-publishers, who publish their books on their own. The e-book-cafe is organised by: Bezkartek.pl, DigitalAll.pl and Murator EXPO.
 

As in the previous year, one of the conferences at the Warsaw Book Fair will be dedicated to e-books: Electronic Books – the Future or Everyday Life. The meetings held on Thursday and Friday will be devoted to discussing the changes which took place in the world of electronic books in the last year and which are connected with the technology of producing e-books, the means of reading them and with the attitudes of publishers towards this new market. The speakers will talk about the following topics:
 

• E-Books in Education: what modern technologies are currently being used in schools, what possibilities do they present and what could they change in the following years;
• E-Books and the Law – legal aspects of distribution and processing of e-books, file protection systems in Poland and abroad;
• E-Books in Practice: Electronic books – what e-books are and what they are not, which e-book format is the best and how it is prepared, can we already speak of e-book standards?
• Distribution and Marketing: e-books, as a new type of books, require a different form of advertising and can become its carrier themselves. In this block, the main distributors of electronic books will be presented, as well as new devices for displaying content. Innovative means of promoting e-books will also be discussed;
• E-Books – the Future or Everyday Life. During the discussion moderated by Tomasz Jeleński from Program Trzeci Polskiego Radia, we want to raise such issues as: Do Poles read books? Will electronic versions of books encourage Poles to read more? What affects the popularity of e-books? Why is it that so few digital books are bought in Poland? Is there a need to protect electronic books against copying etc.? Can these protections discourage readers from buying electronic books? Is it worth for publishers to invest in the e-book market?
   

The conference is organised by the companies: eLib.pl, 7bulls.com and Murator EXPO.
 

The Frankfurt Book Fair and the Polish Chamber of Books invite visitors to the conference “Work on a Polish Books in Print Type Database”. Among the participants of the conference are: Brian Green, chief advisor to EDItEUR, Ronald Schild, CEO of MVB GmbH; Piotr Marciszuk, President of the Polish Chamber of Books; Piotr Miodunka, Assistant General Director of the Society of Authors and Publishers “Polska Książka”. The conference will be moderated by Renek Mendruń, Director of the Department of International Standard Numbers, The National Library. The participants of the conference will present the actual benefits for publishers and booksellers \ distributors of the existence of a “Books in Print” type database. They will show how to increase book sales and provide input data for the copyright database. They will briefly present the concept of “Books in Print” type databases and the connection with the ISBN system. Examples from Germany (VLB, Libreka! and bbWIN2011) – illustrating how one can establish well-working databases based on the ISBN system and on good bibliographical data – will be presented in more detail.

 

The Warsaw Book Fair will also be a place for many business meetings of representatives of the book industry: the Polish Chamber of Books and the Polish Chamber of Booksellers will hold their respective general meetings of members, AZYMUT – one of the biggest Polish wholesalers of books will organise a meeting with publishers and distributors from the whole country. The Polish Chamber of Printing will organise a presentation on modern printing technologies.
 

The Theatrical Institute asks teachers to participate in workshops dedicated to inspiring theatrical passions in students. The Polish Librarians Association invites parents and teachers to participate in the panel entitled “Books for the Youngest Readers”. The Children’s Memorial Health Institute will organise a conference dedicated to presenting the advantages of fairy tale therapy and book therapy.
 

The publishing house Fundacja Zeszyty Literackie will invite librarians to workshops devoted to the works by Czesław Miłosz. A conference dedicated to this poet will be organised by IBL PAN Publishing and the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University. Apart from that, there will be: a conference on copyright issues (Biblioteka Analiz sp. z o.o.), a conference on the current problems of the bookselling market (Wiadomości Księgarskie), screening of ambitious Danish films (Danish Cultural Institute). The so called Antiquarians Street will be significantly longer than last year. This year, antiquarians and street sellers of second-hand books will also have the Tereshkova Hall at their disposal. Some of the other attractions are the previously mentioned sector of new technologies, tourist books and academic publications sectors, a collective stand with catholic literature, an extended sector of comics and cheep books in front of the PKiN.

 

Second Edition of the Comic-Book Warsaw Festival
This year, the Comic-Book Warsaw Festival, a true celebration for all enthusiasts of comics, will be held for the first time at the Warsaw Book Fair. On 12–15 May, in the Palace of Culture and Science, fans of comics will have the opportunity to buy the latest albums from the publishers, meet their favourite artists, receive drawn dedications from them, acquire real rarities at collectors’ stands and participate in live drawing competitions.
 

Some of the special guests of the second edition of the Comic-Book Warsaw Festival are: Tony Sandoval (a Mexican artist best known in Poland for the comic books Nocturno and The Corpse and the Sofa; the Festival will include the premiere of the Polish edition of his latest album Les bêtises de xinophixerox) and Alfonso Zapico (Café Budapest – premiere of the Polish edition in April). The programme of the Festival includes also meetings with Polish authors, publishers, autograph sessions and film shows. Among the guests of the Festival there are also the authors of the comic Jeż Jerzy and the creators of its film adaptation, which was released on 8 March.

There will also be a meeting dedicated to the promotion of the anthology of comics “Morowe panny” from the series Powstanie `44 w komiksie. The winners of the competition, the members of the jury, as well as the representatives of the Warsaw Rising Museum and of the publishing house Egmont will participate in a discussion. The album “Morowe panny” contains the awarded and commended comics entered in the 4th edition of the competition for a comic about the Warsaw Rising, organised by the Warsaw Rising Museum. During the meeting, the organisers will also announce the topic of this year’s competition Powstanie `44 w komiksie.
 

It is also during the second edition of the Warsaw Book Fair that the awards of the Polish Comics Association for the best comics and for the best authors of 2010 will be given; the results of the scholarship competition of Sklep Gildia.pl will be presented; the competition “Zaczarowany Ołówek” for the best illustrated children’s book, organised by the “Contur” Creators Association and the famous Studio Se-Ma-For from Łódź, will be announced. The Festival Comic-Book Warsaw is organised by the Polish Comics Association and the “Contur” Creators Association.
 

Saturday – Reportage Day at the Warsaw Book Fair
In Poland, reportage has a long tradition (many Polish writers wrote reportages) and many outstanding representatives (Ksawery Pruszyński, Melchior Wańkowicz, Ryszard Kapuściński, Hanna Krall), due to which it is thriving and constantly developing. The Ryszard Kapuściński Award, which highlights the most interesting books of reportage, is a very important sign for authors, booksellers, readers, as well as Polish and foreign publishers.
 

All Saturday long, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., the Goethe Hall will house a cycle of meetings (one after the other, each lasting an hour and a half each) with the finalists (authors and translators) of this year’s edition of the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage: Wojciech Górecki (moderated by Bartosz Marzec, Rzeczpospolita); Peter Fröberg Idling and the translator of Uśmiech Pol Pota (Pol Pot’s Smile), Mariusz Kalinowski (moderated by Maciej Zaremba, Dagens Nyheter); John Pomfret (moderated by Adam Leszczyński, Gazeta Wyborcza); Svetlana Alexievich (moderated by Agnieszka Graff); Chloe Hooper (moderated by Mateusz Marczewski, the author of Niewidzialni). A panel meeting entitled “The Translator – A Personage of the 21st Century”, will also be held – with the participation of Agnieszka Nowakowska, Jerzy Czech, Jan Halbersztat and Mariusz Klainowski, moderated by a last year’s finalist, Joanna Czudec. On Saturday, the authors will also be signing their books at the stand of Agora.

 

The Fair for Children
This year, the Warsaw Book Fair has made extraordinary preparations for the youngest readers. To publishers of children’s books we offer a special arrangement (adapted to the demands of the little readers) in the Trojka Hall – the centre of the sector with children’s books. We will also organise a children’s playroom, where parents will be able to leave their children in the care of professional nursery school teachers. The Fair will also house the final of the campaign Fairy Tales for Tomek, organised by The Children’s Memorial Health Institute. The campaign is an initiative on behalf of the six-year-old Tomek, who was poisoned by mushrooms in August 2010. In response to the campaign announced by the Institute, a few hundred fairy tales written for the sick boy were sent from all over the world. At the Fair, visitors will also be able to see an exhibition with the works of the little patients of the Institute.
 

The Fair will also have a special programme of accompanying events for children. During the four days of the Fair, the Sienkiewicz Hall will house, among others, the TEATRANKI theatre workshops for pre-school children and primary school children organised by the Theatrical Institute, as well as art workshops and meetings with popular authors. EMPIK will conduct workshops on books also known as the “Przecinek i kropka” Lessons, during which children will learn the history of the alphabet, script and printing, as well as the process of making books. Animators will present and describe various types of books to the participants and will read fragments of selected publications. The Slovac Institute will invite the youngest visitors of the Fair to meetings with Slovak animation. The meetings and attractions for children held on Thursday and Friday are for organised pre-school and school groups, while on Saturday and Sunday we welcome children with their parents and carers.

 

Exhibitions, Meetings with Authors
On the occasion of the jubilee of Nohdan Butenko, we will present an exhibition showing the works of this outstanding Polish graphic artist – BUTENKO-PINXIT. Apart from that, several other exhibitions will also be presented at the Warsaw Book Fair. These are: the exhibition “Photographers Talk”, which presents the works and statements of 25 respected masters of photography (ROSIKON PRESS), “Widoki z ziemi. Podróże poety" about Czesław Miłosz (BOSZ Publishing); “Stefan Kisielewski 1911–1991” by Małgorzata Gąsiorowska (PWM), “Sweden – Landscapes of Crime Fiction” (Embassy of Sweden in Warsaw and the Danish Cultural Institute), the exhibition of posters by Piotr Młodożeniec from the literary festival “Manifestacje Poetyckie”, “Cyrillic – a new alphabet of the European Union” (Bulgarian Cultural Institute), “Papcio Chmiel at Grunwald” (Comic-Book Warsaw Festival), “The Beauty of Ink Paintings” (National Palace Museum, Taiwan), the exhibition after the competition 17th International Biennial of Children and Young People Graphic Art (Slovak Institute), the exhibition of works by the little patients of The Children’s Memorial Health Institute “Ilustracja do mojej ulubionej bajki”.
 

As usual, the halls of the Palace of Culture and Science will house many meetings of Authors with their Readers. As for now, more than 300 Authors will be coming to the Fair.

 

The Warsaw Book Fair During the Night of Museums
For the first time, the Warsaw Book Fair will be a part of the initiative the Night of Museums.

On Saturday 14 May, from 8 p.m., the Kisielewski Hall (entry directly from Plac Defilad, from the east) will house the debate organised by the weekly Kultura Liberalna, the National Centre for Culture and the Warsaw Book Fair and dedicated to the works by Czesław Miłosz and Stefan Kisielewski: MIŁOSZ vs. KISIEL “Poland terrifies me…” / “Brr! …it is both too small and too large”. Miłosz fought the overexuberant patriotic-martyrological tradition, Kisielewski – the absurdities born in the Polish People’s Republic and the Poles’ romantic mythologies. Even though the intellectual lineages of Miłosz and Kisielewski were quite different, as were their political and literary choices, they were equally committed to challenging Polishness. What was the result of this? Did they win, lose, tie? What remains inspiring in the topics persistently picked up by both these writers? Now, twenty years after the fall of Communism, it is worth asking, whether their assessments of the state of the Polish soul are still current. The participants of the debate are: Beata Stasińska, Andrzej Mencwel, Marek A. Cichocki and Piotr Kieżun. The discussion will be moderated by Jarosław Kuisz, the editor-in-chief of Kultura Liberalna. Additionally, the Old Town Cultural Centre invites to the Performance: “Akcja Move”, which will be held in front of the Palace of Culture and Science at 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

 

On Books in a Different Way…
Some extraordinary events promoting reading are also planned at the Fair, such as the fashion show “Reading is a Fashion” (Saturday, 14 May). The competition for young fashion designers which is meant to promote fashion and reading on the Warsaw Book Fair is organised by Verre Studio Fotografii. Specially for this event, students of the International School of Costume and Fashion Design will design creations inspired by “books”. The creations will be made of recyclable materials, paper combined with fabric. There will be a presentation of photographs showing the collections of Eva Minge, Natalia Jaroszewska, Joanna Misztela and other designers, while an exhibition with the photographs by Anna Powierża, a part of the project “Reading is a Fashion”, will be available during the whole Fair. With this project the author wishes to show that reading is as trendy as the clothes presented in the photographs and wants to encourage people to read more often.

The Online Book Fair at www.etargi-ksiazki.waw.pl
The online edition of the Warsaw Book Fair is a very important element of the whole event. The 2nd Online Book Fair will be held on 9–22 May 2011 at the usual URL: www.etargi-ksiazki.waw.pl. The Online Book Fair starts a few days before the “traditional” fair, which – as we hope – will also have a promotional effect in relation to the PKiN edition. Apart from the fact that it lasts longer, the main advantage of the Online Book Fair is its general availability – each and every Internet user can visit it at any given time, with no limitations and without the need to leave home.

 

2nd Warsaw Book Sale
Once again, after the Warsaw Book Fair (21–22 May 2011), the outdoor Warsaw Book Sale will be held in the Rynek Mariensztacki. The second edition of the Sale will have ca. 60 tents with stands for book publishers and Warsaw booksellers. As usual, the participants of the Warsaw Book Fair will have precedence in receiving stands. Additionally, the Sale will have a rich programme of accompanying events provided by the organiser – Stołeczna Estrada.
 

The Warsaw Book Fair will be open on the following days and in the following hours:

• 12 May 2011 (Thursday) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• 13 May 2011 (Friday) from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• 14 May 2011 (Saturday) from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• 15 May 2011 (Sunday) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

A complete programme of accompanying events is available at:

www.targi-ksiazki.waw.pl

 

Ticket prices:

• Regular ticket for one entry 10 PLN
• Discount ticket for one entry 5 PLN
• Family ticket for one entry 18 PLN
• Name ticket for multiple entries for one person 20 PLN

 

Discount tickets:

• Upon presentation of the relevant card:
• Pensioners and senior citizens
• Students to the age of 26

 

Family ticket:

• two adults + 1–3 children to the age of 18
• (children above 12 are asked to present a school ID)

 

Free entry:

• Senior citizens above the age of 70
• Children under 12
• Journalists upon presentation of a press card
• Organised groups of school and pre-school children with their carers after filling the registration form
• Librarians after filling the registration form

 

2nd Warsaw Book Fair 2011

12–15 May 2011, Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw

Organiser: Targi Książki sp. z o.o.

Executive organiser: Murator EXPO sp. z o.o.

Honorary patronage: The President of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski
 

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Patronage:

 

• The Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski
• The Minister of National Education Katarzyna Hall
  
• The Minister of Science and Higher Education Prof. Barbara Kudrycka
  
• The Director of The National Library Dr. Tomasz Makowski
  
• Polish Book Publishers Association
  
• Polish Chamber of Books
  
• Polish Chamber of Press Publishers
  
• Polish Librarians Association
  
• Polish Chamber of Booksellers
  
• Polish Booksellers Association
  
• Polish Chamber of Printing
  
• Catholic Publishers Association
  
• Association of Publishers of Historical Books
  
• University Publishers Association
  
• Association of Polish Writers
  
• Polish Writers’ Union
  
• Polish Association of Translators and Interpreters
  
• Society of Polish Bibliophiles
  
• The Polish Section of IBBY

 

Media patronage:

 

• Telewizja Polska SA (corporate patronage)
  
• Polskie Radio SA (corporate patronage)
  
• Gazeta Wyborcza
  
• Gazeta.pl
  
• VOX FM
  
• Radio ESKA
  
• Radio ESKA Rock
  
• Radio WaWa
  
• Tygodnik Powszechny
  
• Wydawnictwo MURATOR
  
• Magazyn Literacki KSIĄŻKI
  
• Biblioteka Analiz
  
• Wiadomości Księgarskie
  
• Notes Wydawniczy
  
• rynek-ksiazki.pl
  
• Portal Księgarski ksiazka.net.pl
  
• Wydawca
  
• wydawca.com.pl
  
• Amazonka.pl
  
• Merlin.pl
  
• Forum Akademickie

 

Media cooperation:

• Tygodnik Angora
  
• Stolica
  
• Metro
  
• Poradnik Bibliotekarza
  
• Mówią wieki
  
• Gazeta Bezpłatnych Ogłoszeń Oferta
  
• duzeKA.pl
  
• Super Express
  
• Polish Market
  
• Tygodnik Kultura Liberalna
  
• POKA POKA
  
• Do Broni
  
• Modelarstwo

 

Comic-Book Warsaw Festival
Organiser:

 

• Polish Comics Association
  
• and “Contur” Creators Association
  

 

Conference: Electronic Books – the Future or Everyday Life
Co-organisers:

• eLib.pl, 7bulls.com, Murator EXPO

Supporting sponsors:

• Legimi
  
• Spoti.pl
  
• Pressmo.pl
  
• Woblink
  
• Bookoteka.pl
  
• E-media
  
• SaveUp
  

Sponsor of the Exhibitors’ Evening:

• PAPYRUS

 

Patrons and organisers of the events for children:

• Theatrical Institute
• EMPIK
  
• Slovak Institute
  
• Czasdzieci.pl
  
• Miastodzieci.pl
  
• Świerszczyk
  
• Qlturka.pl
  
• Echa Leśne
  
• Radio BAJKA
  
• Radio BABY

 

Cooperation:

• Warsaw Rising Museum
   

Website: www.targi-ksiazki.waw.pl
                 www.etargi-ksiazki.waw.pl

Contact information of the Team responsible for the Warsaw Book Fair:

 

Murator EXPO Sales Department

Teresa Wieczorek
tel.: (22) 829 66 86
mobile: +48 696 452 741
e-mail:

 

Tomasz Sałkowski
tel.: (22) 829 66 69
mobile: +48 602 636 134
e-mail:

 

Murator EXPO Marketing Department

Katarzyna Ostrowska
tel.: (22) 829 66 65
mobile: +48 662 109 574
e-mail:

 

Agnieszka Ziemiańska
tel.: (22) 829 66 96
mobile: +48 660 448 591
e-mail:

 

Katarzyna Piechocka
tel.: (22) 829 66 79
e-mail:

 

Coordinator of the Programme of Accompanying Events
 

Tadeusz Górny
mobile: +48 696 45 33 42, 601 15 30 11
e-mail:

 

Online Book Fair
 

Lilianna Reszka
tel.: (22) 829 66 95
mobile: +48 600 904 002
e-mail: