{"id":981,"date":"2013-04-26T13:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/?p=981"},"modified":"2013-05-06T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T09:20:15","slug":"invitation-to-the-meeting-with-marek-stokowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishpolishsociety.ie\/events\/invitation-to-the-meeting-with-marek-stokowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to the meeting with Marek Stokowski"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSunday 12th May, 6pm-8pm (Polish House) – Evening with the Author- the event organized together with the Polish Embassy. Our special guest will be Mr Marek Stokowski, Polish writer and poet, a curator for the Malbork Castle Museum. There will be a presentation of Mr Stokowski’s latest book Stroiciel lasu (The Forest Tuner). The event will be mainly in Polish with live translation into English. <\/p>\n

Meeting in Cork organized by Polish Embassy in Dublin and Centrum Wsparcia i Integracji \u201eTogether-Razem , 8 th May from 6pm to 8 pm, The Gresham Metropole, MacCurtain Street, Cork.
\nMeeting in Limerick organized by Polish Embassy in Dublin and Festiwal Sztuki Polskiej ,10 th May from 6 pm to 8 pm , St. Michael\u2019s Church Tower, Denmark Street, Limerick<\/p>\n

NOTE ON THE WRITER<\/p>\n

Marek Stokowski, born in 1957, in Warsaw, Poland, Graduated from the University of Warsaw, Department of the History of Polish Language and Literature.<\/p>\n

Postgraduate diploma from the University of Warsaw in the field of museum education.<\/p>\n

Since 1983 – a curator working for Malbork Castle Museum. In 2009 he participated in the International Programme for Film Professionals at the Andrzej Wajda School in Warsaw.<\/p>\n

He is a member of the Association of Polish Writers, and author of the following fiction and educational books:<\/p>\n

* Dzie\u0144 nad ciemna rzeka (A Day on the Dark River), a book of poems, Lublin 1996<\/p>\n

* Sny dla doros\u0142ych i dla dzieci (Dreams for Grownups and Children), humorous mini-stories, Gdansk 1998<\/p>\n

* Krzy\u017cacy, ich pa\u0144stwo i zamki (The Teutonic Knights, Their Monastic State and Castles), Wroclaw 2002<\/p>\n

* Legendy i opowie\u015bci zamku Malbork (Legends and Tales of Malbork Castle) Gda\u0144sk 2002 and 2005,<\/p>\n

* Ksi\u0119ga zamk\u00f3w pa\u0144stwa krzy\u017cackiego w Prusach (A Book of the Teutonic Order State\u2019s Castles in Prussia) – a large photo-album and journey through 16chosen Teutonic castles, Wena, W\u0142oc\u0142awek 2003<\/p>\n

* B\u0142azen (The Fool), a historic novel, Gdansk, 2004<\/p>\n

* Zamek Malbork (Malbork Castle), a guidebook to Mafbork Castle, four language versions, HotSpot Guide, Hamburg 2004<\/p>\n

* Noc tajemnic (The Night of Secrets), an adventurous-educational novel, Exter, Gdansk 2005<\/p>\n

*Samo-loty (Airplanes), a contemporary novel, Wydawnictwo Santorski & CO, Warszawa 2005<\/p>\n

* Zamek Gniew (Gniew Castle), a guidebook to Gniew Castle, three language versions, TopSpot Guide, Hamburg 2007<\/p>\n

* Krzy\u017cacy w kilku s\u0142owach (The Teutonic Knights Briefly), Wydawnictwo Turystyczne, Krakow 2008<\/p>\n

* Stroiciel lasu (The Forest Tuner), a contemporary novel, Multico, Warszawa 2010<\/p>\n

NOTE ON THE FOREST TUNER<\/p>\n

A dog\u2019s tale about a man.<\/p>\n

The early 1990s. M \u2013 the main character from \u201cAirplanes\u201d, the previous novel by Stokowski \u2013 is awoken from a long coma. He tries to under\u00adstand, why he has returned to the Earth.<\/p>\n

After some months of treatment in a hospital and a longer stay in a nursing-home M leaves Warsaw and settles down in deep forests in North Poland.<\/p>\n

There, accompanied with his dog, he passionately treks in the woodland, and gradually regains his physical and spiritual strength.<\/p>\n

He becomes a forest tuner, someone who harmonizes trees and places that sound out of tune.<\/p>\n

Deeply immersed in the forest M does not care for trees only. He tries to help a seriously ill girl, and finds his love.<\/p>\n

He also fights againsf people who \u2013 for decades \u2013 have destroyed the harmony of the world and served the death.<\/p>\n

An unexpected volte in the tale\u2019s final makes readers doubt, whether the dog brought them to the geographical north or perhaps some\u00adwhere else.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Forest Tuner\u201d is a novel about Poland after the political change in 1989, however the serious matters are told in a humorous way.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a book about friendship, saving power of silence, need of remem\u00adbrance, and the enormous force of laughter and dreams. It\u2019s also an apology of telling strange stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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