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Mrożek archive in Switzerland

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Peter Gentle 24.07.2013 08:34
A large body of literary manuscripts, letters and documents of Sławomir Mrozek, Poland’s internationally-renowned playwright, is on display at the newly-opened Writing and Literature Centre of the Maison de ‘Ecriture in Montricher, near Geneva.

The centre is run by the Jan Michalski Foundation, which was created in 2004 by Vera Michalski in memory of her husband.

The publishing house Noir sur Blanc, which the husband-and-wife team founded in 1986, has been the sole publisher of Mrożek’s works since its inception.

Mrożek has developed a close friendship with the Michalkis and decided to bequeath his entire archives to the Jan Michalski Foundation.

Its library is to hold over 80, 000 books and magazines, both in their original language and in translation. As of September the library will be open to writers and scholars, as well as, on selected days, to the general public.

The Dziennik Polski daily, published in Kraków, where Mrożek lived for many years, wrote recently that it is a pity that the writer’s archive have been deposited outside Poland.

“The Jagiellonian Library in Krakow or the National Library in Warsaw would no doubt be a fitting place for Mrożek’s personal archives but evidently the writer’s wish was to have them located outside Poland. But then, no one in Poland has approached him with such a proposal,” the daily wrote.

Now eighty three year-old, Mrożek lives in Nice. He is among Poland’s most often translated authors. His best-known plays are The Tango, The Emigres, The Ambassador, The Slaughterhouse and Love in the Crimea. (mk)

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