Filip Florian’s Little Fingers Available in Poland

December 15, 2008

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Filip Florian’s novel Little Fingers is now available in bookstores around

Poland

. Published by Czarna in a translation by Szymon Wcisło, Little Fingers joins a collection that has already featured Simona Popescu and Mircea Cărtărescu. Under the able direction of Monika Sznajderman, Czarna specializes in the literature Eastern European literature. The current edition benefits from the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute’s Translation Support Program (TPS). Mr. Wcisło is a member to the talented generation of young Polish translators and a former recipient of a translation scholarship from The Romanian Cultural Institute. Czarna looks forward to publishing Romanian novelist Dan Lungu in the near future.

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