The year of

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is declared the Year of Stanisław Lem in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

, according to the November 27, 2020 resolution of

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(the

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of the parliament of Poland). It assigned several patrons for the year, so 2021 is to be known as the Stanisław Lem Year, Stefan Wyszyński Year,

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Year,

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (; nom de guerre: Jan Bugaj; 22 January 1921 – 4 August 1944) was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most well known of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets, of whom several ...

Year, Tadeusz Różewicz Year, as well as the

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Year in

."Sejm wybrał patronów roku 2021"
/ref> 2021 is the year of the 100th Stanisław Lem anniversary.

History

A petition dated by March 11, 2020, for the declaration of the Year of Lem was submitted to

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Wydawnictwo Literackie Wydawnictwo Literackie (abbreviated WL, lit. "Literary Press") is a Kraków-based Polish publishing house, which has been referred to as one of Poland's "most respected". Company history Since its foundation in 1953, Wydawnictwo Literackie has b ...

(a major publisher of Stanisław Lem's books), the Kraków Festival Bureau, and the Stanisław Lem Poland of the Future Foundation ( pl, Fundacja Polska Przyszłośći im. Stanisława Lema). President Andrzej Duda was one of the petition's supporters.Rok Stanisława Lema w 2021 roku? Do Sejmu trafiła petycja w tej sprawie
July 30, 2020 On July 11, 2020, a draft resolution was submitted to Sejm, and the final resolution was approved on November 27, 2020.

Activities

The preparations for this celebration have been underway in

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, the city associated with Lem, for several years. These preparations include the establishment of Kraków Centre of Literature and Language "Planet Lem" intended to popularize the works of Lem and to supplement the project "Lem 2021", implemented within the

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program "Kraków is the City of Literature ("Kraków Miasto Literatury"). In 2021

is planning to release a new biography of Lem by Agnieszka Gajewska of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the book ''Lem in PRL'' by Wojciech Orliński about the peripeteias of Lem in

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, as well as new editions of Lem's books. The major event will be the celebration of Lem's birthday (September 12–14) at the . Lem will be the focus of number of regular events, such as Children's Literature Festival and

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Festival, as well as in theaters, musical works, symposia and conferences.""Jego książki były przejawem wolności". Sejm wybrał patrona 2021 roku"
November 28, 2020 More web festivals are announced. For example, the collaboratively developed
StanislawLem Festival 2021 from 28.-31. October 2021

References

External links

Year of Lem websiteYear of Lem website (English)
{{Stanisław Lem, state=collapsed Stanisław Lem 2021 in Poland