International Book Fair Research Articles

Study of Design Trends in Visual Expression of Book Cover Design -Focusing the Seoul International Book Fair’s “Best Book Design in Korea”-

Study of Design Trends in Visual Expression of Book Cover Design -Focusing the Seoul International Book Fair’s “Best Book Design in Korea”-

Export of book products, international book fairs, popularization of language and literature are factors of France's image

The article examines the factors that influence the image of France in the world and allow to conduct a powerful foreign policy and influence international politics. As the main components of this study, attention is focused on the export of book products of the French Republic to the countries of the world, numerous international book fairs and measures to popularize French literature, languages and cultures in the world. The article presents how France implements a planned policy to attract the young generation to reading, and defines the role of various organizations in the preparation and implementation of events aimed at popularizing French culture. It is concluded that the analyzed components of the formation of the image of France, which stimulate the strengthening of the influence of its culture on global socio-economic processes and the nature of interstate relations, are a powerful tool of the country's foreign policy.

Library in the Space of Books and Events of the 36th Moscow International Book Fair

From August 30 to September 3, 2023, the 36th Moscow International Book Fair was held at the Expo Centre Central Exhibition Complex on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment. The Forum brought together participants from various regions of Russia, as well as representatives of 21 countries, including seven countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Germany, China and Iran, and was attended by more than 34 thousand people. The VKontakte social network has become a partner of online broadcasts and the official MIBF network. More than 300 events were held at seven venues. Publishers from Moscow, St. Petersburg and 26 other Russian regions presented their books.The article presents an annual review of the activities of the MIBF: The National competition “Book of the Year — 2023”, the competition of the Russian Library Association “The Best professional Book of the Year”, the 3rd Readers’ Assembly of the Commonwealth, the industry conference “Book Market of Russia — 2023”, the Moscow International Children’s Book Fair. In the event context of the most relevant events for the library industry, libraries’ understanding of their role in the socio-cultural life of society is revealed: achievements and initiatives aimed at preserving heritage, promoting books and reading are noted, new projects, including book publishing, are presented, the results of the participation of the Russian State Library and the publishing house “Pashkov Dom” in the MIBF-2023 are summed up.

Contribuția Bibliotecii „Ștefan cel Mare” din Suceava la afirmarea diversității culturale în Bucovina

The library of the “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava is a library of public law, without legal personality, subordinated to the Rectorate and the Senate of the university, being financed from the university’s budget. The main users are students and teachers, but there is also a growing number of beneficiaries in the community. Within the library there are many cultural activities with openness to the general public of Suceava: the Alma Mater Librorum International Book Fair, the symposium dedicated to the “Librarianʼs Day”, the homage meetings under the generic “The Man and the Book”, the “Mihai Eminescu” Days, the University Days, the reading campaign “I Read, therefore I Live”, “Școala altfel”, “Open Doors Days” etc. The main services offered by our Library are: development, record keeping and organization of collections, interlibrary exchange, cataloguing and indexing of collections, documentary information, designing bibliographic references, keeping and preserving collections, circulation of collection publications, public relations, and librarian loan. The dynamics of the activities of the University Library in Suceava imposed the appearance of the first issue of the libraryʼs magazine: “The contribution of the library to the affirmation of cultural diversity in the Romanian space”. Institutional partnerships are being updated and multiplying significantly from one stage of library development to another and international openness is manifested by the signing of new protocols, participation in programs such as Erasmus or “Eugène Ionesco”, and involvement in bilateral conventions of the university. The entire activity that the university library staff carries out at the highest level of professionalism and vocation is directly reflected in the quality of the activities specific to a library, to which are added the important contribution to the promotion of cultural values in local, regional, and European communities.

Strategies for transnational projection through international book fairs

The following article aims to analyze the projection and representation of literary systems in some of the main international book fairs (IBF) at present, based on theoretical-methodological proposals from the Sociology of Literature and Culture (Bourdieu in ARSS 145, 3–8, 2002; Sapiro Translatio. Le marché de la traduction en France à l’heure de la mondialisation, CNRS Éditions, 2008; Even-Zohar, Polisistemas de Cultura. Laboratorio de investigación de la cultura, 2017). We begin with the hypothesis of considering IBFs as places for the acquisition of capital (literary, cultural, economic and symbolic) and for negotiating struggles for positions of greater or lesser centrality in the transnational literary field and in the world publishing market, and in terms of the image of countries, cultures, or cities. In those IBFs offering the position of Guest of Honor, this becomes a privileged opportunity—for governments, institutions and different actors involved in the book chain—for the international projection of the image of a country, culture, city or literary system. Different strategies for cultural and literary promotion in this worldwide scenario of symbolic goods will be discussed, with special attention to the case of Brazil (contrasted, partly, with that of Spain).

QU Press Dialogue with 2021 Literature Nobel Laureate Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah

ABSTRACT: Nobel laureate Prof. Abdulrazak Gourna was invited by Qatar University Press and warmly welcomed by the audience of the Doha International Book Fair. The long interview focused on the relationship between the author and publisher and responsibilities of the author to represent the concerns of his local culture on a world stage. Here, the significance of translation was apparent as well as direct communication between author and audiences worldwide. His African, Arabic, and Islamic roots contributed to the rich heritage of Prof. Gurnah, whose novels unravel this complexity of identities. The dialogue was enriched by a discussion on how the author as a novelist and academic dealt with postcolonialism and the evil of colonialism. More importantly, how in his original home Zanzibar, different societies, the coastal cultures, the Arab traders, the Indian traders, the Swahili traders, and the people in the interior, negotiated their coexistence peacefully, which ended with the arrival of European colonialism. This led to fragmentation of African societies and in many ways was responsible for the oppression and dictatorship that ravaged the contents.

Marketing Libraries Inside The Cairo International Book Fair

Marketing Libraries Inside The Cairo International Book Fair

Book Diversity and Fireworks of Events: the 35th Moscow International Book Fair

On September 2—5, 2022, the 35th Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF) was held in Moscow at the Gostiny Dvor Exhibition Centre. More than 300 publishers from 28 regions of the Russian Federation presented their books. Representatives from 21 countries, including seven CIS member states, attended the Book Fair program. Within the framework of the 35th MIBF, 344 events took place at 11 sites that were accompanied by various book exhibitions. In the context of the key events for the book industry and librarianship that took place at the 35th MIBF (the National competition “Book of the Year”, the 10th All-Russian competition of the Russian Library Association “Best Professional Book of the Year”, the conference “Russian Book Market — 2022”, the 11th competition of professional skills “Auditor”), the participation of libraries in the cultural life of the society, their achievements and initiatives aimed at promoting books and reading were noted, creative projects, including book publishing, were presented. The article summarizes the results of participation of the Russian State Library (RSL) and the RSL publishing house “Pashkov Dom” in the 35th Moscow International Book Fair.

Proposal of tourist contents for the design of a mobile application in the city of Guayaquil

Tourism is a social phenomenon that consists of the voluntary and temporary displacement of individuals or groups of people, mainly for recreation, rest, culture or health, who move from their usual place of residence to another place where they do not engage in any lucrative or remunerated activity, generating multiple interrelations of social, economic and cultural importance. Thanks to the tourism campaigns that have been promoted by the national government, Ecuador is known as a biodiverse country, with a variety of natural and cultural tourist attractions that attract the attention of visitors, being located on the equator, has favored us to have several regions, which are: Littoral or Coast, Andes or Highlands, Amazon and Galapagos. The city of Guayaquil, considered the economic capital of the country, is located in the Littoral Region, it is the main port of the country; it offers a variety of activities and tourist sites to enjoy the place, among which we can find recreation and leisure sites such as the Simon Bolivar Malecon; it has hosted various fairs, congresses and national and international events, such as the International Orchid Congress, International Book Fair, among others.

Development of the Al-Assad National Library’s Collections under the Circumstances of the Military Conflict in Syria

During the military conflict on going on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria), there was destroyed not only the economic, but also the educational and cultural infrastructure of the country. Thousands of libraries located in northern Syria have completely lost their collections. The number of Arab cultural centres (public libraries) decreased by 60% from 2011 to 2018. They were located in the conflict zones and were destroyed during military operations. Huge damage was caused to the market of publishing industry and the book culture of Syria as a whole.During the tough movement process from war to peace, the preservation of monuments, including writing, remains an important issue for the country and its future. The leading library in Syria is the Al-Assad National Library (NL), which receives legal deposit copy of domestic publications; it is engaged in international book exchange; makes procurements; receives books and manuscripts as donation. Preserving the documentary cultural heritage of the country, the library performs the memorial function, which is much more complicated in the conditions of military conflict and economic crisis.The purpose of the research is to study the impact of the war in Syria on the activities of the Al-Assad National Library, the dynamics of the development of its collections, as well as the formation of strategy for the reconstruction of the countryʼs library system. The author used the methods of comparative analysis in the work and conducted the review of the literature on this topic.In 1988, the Al-Assad National Library’s collections contained 131,931 items. In the 2000s, there was an increase in the number of publications received by the library via legal deposit copy system. Since 2011, the beginning of the terrorist war, which was accompanied by the economic blockade by Western countries, the replenishment of the stock has significantly decreased. From 2012 to 2015, the International Book Fair in Damascus was suspended. At the end of 2020, the total stock of the library amounted to 567,117 information resources in Arabic and foreign languages.Russiaʼs support in restoring peaceful life in Syria is highly appreciated by the Syrian people. The relevance of the study is related to the lack of information in Russian about the development of the national library collections during the war in Syria. Russian universities train Syrian specialists in both library and other branches of science. The Russian language has been introduced into educational programs in Syria, which will further lead to its adoption as a foreign language to replace English language in the Republic.At present, it is necessary to restore all areas of life in Syria, including cultural. The Al-Assad National Library plays a key role in the reform of the library system in the country, the formation of cultural policy through the creation of a stable system of book communication and the embedding of national book culture in the world information space. The Syrian society is forced to take into account political, economic, socio-cultural challenges. It is necessary to expand international cooperation, especially with countries that have maintained friendly relations with Syria.

Research on Copyright Trade in International Book Fair—Based on the Comparative Analysis of Beijing International Book Fair and London International Book Fair

Under the background of “cultural going out”, how can Beijing International Book Fair better develop the copyright trade function of the book fair, determine the functional orientation and accelerate the publication of “going out”. As an international professional book fair with copyright trade as its essence, London International Book Fair should learn from and draw lessons from its characteristic functions and professionalism. This paper studies the opening of copyright trade under the background of “cultural going out”, and puts forward the problems at the current stage of Beijing International Book Fair; Then, focusing on copyright trade, this paper compares and analyzes the similarities and differences between the highlights and characteristics of Beijing International Book Fair and London Book Fair, draws on each other’s strengths to make up for their weaknesses, and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Beijing International Book Fair, so as to discuss the Enlightenment of London International Book Fair to Beijing International Book Fair and publishing industry; secondly, I think about the book fair and digital IP trade in the new era; the last part is the summary of the full text.

Activism in the International Geography of Books: Small Publishing Houses from Argentina at the 2020 Virtual Frankfurt Book Fair

International Book Fairs are vital for the international geography of books and allow the researcher to observe the relations of domination and the defiant practices that shape book production. This article draws on a survey and in‑depth interviews with small publishing houses from Argentina to analyze their participation in the 2020 Virtual Frankfurt Book Fair, and complements this data with an online observation of the fair. While Argentine history is rich with cases of publishers closely related to politics, we pose the question on the forms activism adopts in the twenty‑first century. This analysis engages in current debates on the links between publishing and politics, centers and peripheries, power dynamics, and on how these phenomena shift in the virtual sphere. This participation is theorized as activism practices, i.e. (i) resistance from dominant practices, (ii) an enthusiastic approach to the virtual sphere, and (iii) cooperation and reliance on institutions.

From Murambi: The Book of Bones

from Murambi:The Book of Bones Boubacar Boris Diop (bio) Translated from French by Fiona McLaughlin During ninety days in 1994, members of the Hutu majority in Rwanda murdered 800,000 members of the country's Tutsi minority, in one of the swiftest and most brutal genocides of the twentieth century. In Boubacar Boris Diop's novel Murambi: The Book of Bones, "the time, place, and mood of the genocide are created through a concert of voices," Eileen Julien writes in the book's foreword, and readers hear "the thoughts of fictive victims and killers who lived through those terrifying and horrific days." The following is a chapter from the book. f.s. We called him Tonton Antoine. For as far back as I can remember, I always saw him at the house. He was my father's best friend. Actually his only friend, I think. Already, when I was a little girl, I had the feeling that he wasn't like anyone else we knew. He didn't laugh very much, but he loved doing magic tricks with cards. Projecting the shadows of his fingers against a wall, he could also create tortoises or dragonflies. As soon as I saw him arrive, I would rush out to meet him. He would lift me up on his shoulders and run around our place singing, "Marina has an airplane, Tonton Antoine is little Marina's airplane!" I was, I think, one of the few people who could cheer him up. A few days after the events, he came to the house a first time. He and my father talked for a long time in low voices. We knew that he was in charge of several barricades in Kibuye. Nonetheless, he had a sweet face, if a little bit sad, just as I'd known him from my earliest childhood. When he left, my father seemed to be very preoccupied. "Does he know that we're hiding those little ones here?" asked my mother, worried. "No, but he says I should take up my machete like all the other men." "Ah?" "I refused. I can't do that." My mother said nothing. After a while he cried out again: "Yes, I refused!" Two days passed. Tonton Antoine came back. He and my father locked themselves away again in the living room. For the first time in my life I heard Tonton Antoine shout. [End Page 65] After this second meeting, my father started to change. He talked to himself, wandering from one room to another: "Ah! I can't agree to do it, those people have never done anything to me! It's savagery!" The next instant he would say that he had to protect us. If he didn't do anything, the Interahamwe were going to come and kill everyone in the house. The third day, not being able to stand it anymore, he took up his machete. My mother and I wanted to keep him from going out. Then he screamed, "Don't you watch the television? It's like all wars—you kill people and then it's over!" He went to the barricades. They tell us that he handles his machete like a maniac over there. However, when he's back at the house, he goes straight to the little ones' hiding place, he gives them treats and plays with them. Then he retires to his bedroom. Mother and I don't disturb him. When he leaves very early the next morning, we pretend we're asleep. [End Page 66] Boubacar Boris Diop Boubacar Boris Diop was born in Dakar, Senegal, and is a Francophone author of novels, plays, and essays. He was awarded the Senegalese Republic Grand Prize for Les Tambours de la mémoire and the Prix Tropiques for The Knight and His Shadow. His Doomi Golo was the first novel to be translated from Wolof into English. The Zimbabwe International Book Fair listed it as one of the hundred best African books of the twentieth century. In 2022 he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature for Murambi: The Book of Bones. Fiona Mc Laughlin Fiona Mc Laughlin is associate professor of African languages...

A comparative study between international book exhibitions and book festivals

코로나 19로 인해 오랜 역사와 전통을 지닌 국제도서전과 북페스티벌이 연기하거나 취소하는 등 파행을 거듭하게 되었고, 일부 온라인과 오프라인을 겸하거나 규모를 축소해서 그 명맥을 이어나가고 있다. 전 세계적인 팬데믹으로 인해 국제도서전과 북페스티벌이 위축되었으나 출판 산업에서 두 행사는 산업 전체를 견인하는 빅 이벤트다. 따라서 국제도서전 중 대표성을 띤 프랑크푸르트도서전, 볼로냐아동도서전, 베이징국제도서박람회, 서울국제도서전을 분석하고, 북페스티벌은 헤이페스티벌, 파주북소리, 서울와우북페스티벌을 분석해 본다. 이들 분석을 통해 서울국제도서전의 나아가 방향을 제시한다.COVID-19 has led to a series of disruptions, with international book exhibitions and book festivals with a long history and tradition postponed or canceled, and some online and offline or scaled down to continue their reputation. International book exhibitions and book festivals have shrunk due to the global pandemic, but the two events in the publishing industry are big events that drive the entire industry. Therefore, it analyzes the representative Frankfurt Book Fair, Bologna Children s Book Fair, Beijing International Book Fair, and Seoul International Shenzhen, while the Book Festival analyzes the Hey Festival, Paju Book Sound, and Seoul Wow Book Festival. Through these analyses, the further direction of the Seoul International Book Fair is presented.

Illustration Festivals and Book Fairs in the Development of Ukrainian Illustration as a Sector of Creative Industries

The purpose of the article is to clarify the meaning and functions of illustration festivals and book fairs from a socio-cultural perspective, as well as to determine and summarize the level of Ukrainian illustration’s representation in the international space through participation in such events. Research methodology. Empirical method, method of analysis and synthesis were applied. Journalistic materials on international events containing locations for the presentation of illustrative works and professional communication between illustrators were subject to analysis. Scientific novelty. The article considers the theoretical aspects’ importance of professional exhibitions of illustrators at international book fairs, competitions and festivals in the field of illustration for the development of this sector of creative industries. It is determined that these events are a powerful socio-cultural phenomenon and an effective platform for social communication between the main players in the sector. The events also perform a compensatory and motivating function for both professional environments and ordinary viewers of illustration, and their festivity and positive public response increase the illustration importance as a creative industries’ sector among the population. Also, for the first time, the article synthesizes factual data on the awards and prizes of Ukrainian illustrators, which exist in separate news publications, in the chronology of each event. It turned out that the most attractive for the participation of Ukrainian illustrators is The Illustrators Exhibition – Bologna Children’s Book Fair, as the chronology of achievements at this event is the longest and largest. The most successful illustrators in terms of international awards are Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv («Agrafka»creative workshop). Conclusions. Over the last decade, Ukrainian illustration has been actively asserting itself internationally. The works created in 2010 correspond to world trends and attract the attention of foreign colleagues, publishers and critics. In recent years, the promotion and PR of illustrators have reached a much higher level, which increases the publicity of Ukraine’s achievements and strengthens the prestige of the sector in the public. The constant worldwide recognition of a narrow circle of Ukrainian illustrators in the presence of many talented authors raises the question of forming a culture of Ukrainian illustrators’ professional ambitions, when presenting themselves in international competitions and festivals, submitting their work should be understood as part of professional activity. The presentation of Ukrainian illustration in such events can be interpreted as a tool of cultural diplomacy of Ukraine in the international space.

Books and Events: Trends, Projects, Achievements in the Light of the 34th Moscow International Book Fair

The leading event for the library and publishing sector — the 34th Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF) — took place on September 24—27, 2021 at the Central Exhibition Complex “Expocentre”. The forum was held in a “hybrid format”, foreign participants joined the events online. There were announced the winners of the National competition “Book of the Year — 2021” and the 9th Competition of the Russian Library Association “The Best Professional Book of the Year — 2021”.The business program of the MIBF contained sectoral conferences and round tables devoted to the insight of state of the book industry. The 2nd International Conference “The World Book Industry in new realities: new technologies, new challenges, new prospects”, the sectoral conference “The Russian Book Market — 2021”, the round table “Books in the city” took place at the Fair. The MIBF outlined the vectors of the development of modern culture, creative industries and creative entrepreneurship in the context of books; prospects for the development of new formats for the reorganization of territories and the formation of a stable local identity; intersection points of interests of citizens, local and federal authorities, business and cultural institutions. The article summed up the overall results of the MIBF.

Mathematics in the interwar period in Central-Eastern Europe. The report on an international research project for the years 2018–2020

In the article, we will show the main important results of the international research project The impact of WWI on the formation and transformation of the scientific life of the mathematical community. It was supported by the Czech Science Foundation for the years 2018–2020 and brought together ten scientists from five countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, USA, and Ukraine) and used the collaboration with historians of mathematics and mathematicians from many other European countries. We will discuss our motivation for the creation of the project, our methodological and professional preparations which profited from the international composition of the team and its longtime collaborations, profound specializations and experiences of the team members, and their deep and long-term studies of many archival sources and basic published works. We will present our choice of the general research trends, our definition of the scientific questions, and our determination of the main topics of our studies. We will describe our most important results (books, articles, visiting lectures, presentations at national and international conferences, seminars and book fairs, exhibitions, popularizations of the results between students, teachers, mathematicians, historians of sciences, and people who love mathematics and its history). We will analyze the new benefit that the project created for the future, for example, good platforms for future international research and cooperation, the discovery of many new interesting research questions, problems, and plans.

On the historical and present special literary relations between Belarus and Kazakhstan

Belarus in the XXI century demonstrates a careful and respectful attitude to national literature and culture. The international literary symposium «Writer and Time», which is being held for the seventh year in Minsk during the Minsk International Book Fair, is a platform for exchanging views on topical literary, general civilization issues and is aimed at preserving the spiritual and moral foundations of the development of society and the state. Ethnocultural identity is revealed in the literatures of Belarus and Kazakhstan and the way out into world literature is determined.        The methodology of the article is based on a philological analysis of a literary text in translation. The results of this study are aimed at expanding and deepening the dialogue between the masters of the artistic word of Belarus and Kazakhstan, intensifying literary cooperation, identifying and promoting the most artistically significant works of the two countries. This is undoubtedly facilitated by the functioning of the Internet portal «Consonance: Literature and Journalism of the Commonwealth Countries» (sozvuchie.zviazda.by) based on the publishing house «Zvyazda», which posts new materials about the national literatures of the CIS countries. In the series «Consonance of Hearts» by the publishing house «Zvyazda» a collection of works by Belarusian and Kazakh writers «Knowing No Bounds» has been published, the concept of memory and the modern era are reflected in the published literary texts.        Key words: post-Soviet space, literary translation, criticism, almanac, literary collaboration

Connections of Maghrebin and Sub-Saharan Intellectuals: Trajectories and Representations

Faced with the complex reality of their countries in the grip of multifaceted crises, the intellectuals in the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa are baffled. Indeed, this situation, with a wealth of lessons, ought to challenge them to reflect together on the current upheavals in their societies. Nevertheless, faced with the intricacy of current problems and their heterogeneity, these intellectuals find themselves scattered. Yet, in the past, they were bound by the same objectives. Thus, if the religious elites of the Maghreb had, during the 15th century, forged links with scholars of sub-Saharan Africa, a second wave of intellectuals succeeded them to think about the liberation of Africa and the Pan-African ideal in colonial and post-colonial contexts. However, immediately after this generation disappeared, the one that followed did not resist the disenchantment of the populations and the expansion of Arabism that influenced the formation of a generation of Maghrebin thinkers. With the bankruptcy of the socialist regimes, this hiatus heralded an era of intellectuals crumbling to the point that, with globalisation in the 21st century and the eruption of a plurality of questions, they found themselves helpless in these countries. Apart from a few attempts at building common frameworks for reflection such as those of CODESRIA or the “Esprit Panaf” pavilion at the Algiers International Book Fair, links between intellectuals from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa are rare. Opposed to this type of scholars, mainly Francophone and secularised, a second type of intellectuals, rather Islamised, sharing the same representations, dominate the different spaces of the countries concerned. This paper is an attempt to explore the historical trajectory of these two types of intellectuals and then explain why, in recent decades, such a connection has marked the future of the relationship between the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa.

Regina Wasiak-Taylor – animatorka kultury, dziennikarka, prezes Związku Pisarzy Polskich na Obczyźnie w Londynie

The aim of the article is to present Regina Wasiak-Taylor – a person of many talents, as a journalist, an efficient animator of the cultural life of the Polish diaspora in Great Britain, a president of the Union of Polish Writers Abroad [hereinafter: ZPPnO – Związek Pisarzy Polskich na Obczyźnie]. The following methods have been used: qualitative analysis of the press content, critical analysis of documents, heuristic analysis, interviews. We get to know Mrs Wasiak-Taylor’s scope of activity: involvement in the organisational life of the ZPPnO, in the Pamiętnik Literacki [Literary Memoir] edited in London, practicing socio-cultural journalism and literary criticism, writing scientific articles, popularisation of the emigration’s literary life and Polish ballet, organizing, among others, multimedia theatre and stage programmes – Poetic Scene [Scena Poetycka] at the Polish Social and Cultural Association [POSK – Polski Ośrodek Społeczno-Kulturalny] in London. Also: initiation of the Literary Parlour within the Polish Watchfire at the Exhibition Road, addressed to the Polish and international intelligentsia in London, active participation in international scientific conferences. Regina Wasiak-Taylor conducts editorial work on books. She is the author of readings, laudations, and her own publications: Dzieje Nagrody Literackiej ZPPnO 1951–2011 [The History of the Literary Award of the ZPPnO 1951–2011] (London 2011), Ojczyzna literatura [Literature Fatherland] (London 2013), Alfabet wspomnień Szymona Zaremby. II Rzeczpospolita, II wojna światowa, emigracja [Szymon Zaremba’s Alphabet of Memories, Second Polish Republic, World War II, emigration] (London 2015). She initiates and promotes books by Polish authors and moderates other meetings of literary and scientific circles at the Polish Embassy in London, at the International Book Fair in Warsaw and at literary events in various places.