Evenings with Polish Reporters II: How to Write About National History
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: April 5, 2016, 19:30 – 21:30
Some historical events both unite and divide society. The Warsaw Uprising and the Mašín brothers’ actions are today primarily symbols. How to speak about them?
Magdalena Grzebałkowska and Pavel Kosatík will present their stories of national history while a discussion will focus on what picture of the past reports and essays can deliver and how perceptions of our own history are being transformed today.
Second meeting in the series Evenings with Polish Reporters organised by the Polish Institute in Prague in cooperation with the Václav Havel Library.
Magdalena Grzebałkowska is a Polish writer and reporter. Her book 1945. War and Peace (2015) won the Polish-German Tadeusz Mazowiecki Prize for journalism. She is one of the authors of the anthology of reports and essays We Wanted to Be Free… Stories from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.