24 November 2017 Friday
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Lecture Hall 1.43, Faculty of Philology UG
Q&A session with Katarzyna Tubylewicz – Moraliści. Jak Szwedzi uczą się na błędach i inne historie [Moralists. How the Swedes Learn from Their Mistakes and Other Stories] – led by Krystyna Weiher-Sitkiewicz
Katarzyna Tubylewicz
A writer, cultural scholar, and a translator from Swedish. The author of novels „Własne miejsca” [“Your Own Places”], „Rówieśniczki” [“Peers”] and „Ostatnia powieść Marcela” [“Marcel’s Last Novel”], as well as the editor of the celebrated anthology „Szwecja czyta. Polska czyta” [“Sweden Reads. Poland Reads”]. In 2017 she published a new book, entitled Moraliści. Jak Szwedzi uczą się na błędach i inne historie [Moralists. How the Swedes Learn from Their Mistakes and Other Stories]. It is a collection of interviews and reports revolving around the topic of Sweden as a multicultural society. She taught Polish culture at Stockholm University and from 2006 to 2012 she was the head of Polish Institute in Stockholm. As a publicist, she collaborates with “Krytyka Polityczna” and “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
Moraliści. Jak Szwedzi uczą się na błędach i inne historie [Moralists. How the Swedes Learn from Their Mistakes and Other Stories]
For years, Sweden was an unmatched model of a modern and secularized welfare state. It was a myth. If it had not existed, it would have to be invented.
Lately however, Scandinavia has suffered the same problems as the rest of Europe. Among the people featured in Tubylewicz’s books there are many ordinary people with extraordinary experiences. Tubylewicz interviews as well some famous and opinion-forming Swedes, such as a writer Elisabeth Asbrink, Bishop Eva Brunne or a reporter Niklas Orrenius.