New book: "Substancja" by Michał Witkowski

About this event

Michał Witkowski returns to fiction after his prize-winning "Autobiografia" with "Substancja", and he does it with the literary nerve he is known for. Katarzyna Janowska runs the conversation at Nowy Theatre: expect a writer who treats an interview as another kind of performance.

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One of Poland's most provocative novelists launching a long-awaited book, free.

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