Anna Maria Sieklucka gets in between Michele Morrone and Simone Sussina at the premiere of their new film, 365 Days: This Day, held at Hotel Warszawa on Tuesday night (April 26) in Warsaw, Poland.
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LONDON -- Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk is among six finalists announced Thursday for the International Booker Prize for fiction in English translation.Tokarczuk’s 18th-century epic “The Books of Jacob” is a favorite to win the award, whose 50,000-pound ($65,000) prize money is split between a book’s author and its translator. She and her translator Jennifer Croft previously won for “Flights” in 2018, the same year Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.“Tomb of Sand” by India’s Geetanjali Shree is also on the shortlist.
The first Hindi-language book to be a finalist, it’s the life-affirming story of a convention-defying 80-year-old woman.The other finalists are crime tale “Elena Knows” by Claudia Piñeiro of Argentina; “Heaven,” the story of a bullied schoolboy by Japan’s Mieko Kawakami; the philosophical novel “A New Name: Septology VI-VII” by Norway’s Jon Fosse; and “Cursed Bunny,” a book of surreal short stories by South Korean writer Bora Chung.The winner will be announced on May 26.The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to a book of fiction in any language that is translated into English and published in the U.K. or Ireland.
Anna Maria Sieklucka gets in between Michele Morrone and Simone Sussina at the premiere of their new film, 365 Days: This Day, held at Hotel Warszawa on Tuesday night (April 26) in Warsaw, Poland.
Good Morning Britain viewers have been left divided as they tuned into the show on Monday. The ITV news programme has undergone a shake-up with Richard Madeley back and hosting in the studio while Susanna Reid reported live from the Polish-Ukrainian border.
Manori Ravindran International EditorWarner Bros. Discovery has set out its long-awaited international leadership team under Gerhard Zeiler.Zeiler, as announced earlier this month, is the newly installed president of international for the merged company, and oversees the global channels business with a “dotted line” to international streaming lead JB Perrette.
An ambulance which departed from Errol in Perthshire to help the injured in Ukraine has arrived safely.
That’s a lot of brisket.
Oliwia Dabrowska was about 3 years old when she became an indelible part of cinema history in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning classic Schindler’s List. As the little girl in the red coat walking through the Krakow Ghetto untouched as its residents are being “liquidated” by German troops, she was not only the only color in the otherwise black-and-white film, she also symbolized much of the film’s complicated dance between hope and hopelessness, violence and compassion, guilt and innocence.
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy has once again returned home.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy, 42, walked through what Ukrainian refugees can expect to see in the Polish town Medyka, while leaving their home country amidst the war with Russia. The dancer showed the different tents with volunteers handing out supplies, including food, clothing and baby products, while also talking about how cold it is for Ukrainians as they arrive in the camp, after their long journey.
K.J. Yossman Netflix are expanding their European presence with a new office in Poland.The office, which is set to open in the country’s capital of Warsaw later this year, will function as a central hub for Netflix’s Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) productions.“The Netflix office in Warsaw is a natural next step for us and will help build long-term cooperation in the region as well as deepen existing ties, creating new opportunities for content creators and producers,” said Larry Tanz, Netflix EMEA’s vice president of original series.
Netflix has opened an office in Poland that will serve as its hub for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
Maksim Chmerkovskiy opened up about why he is back in Europe after fleeing the continent when Russia began its invasion of his homeland Ukraine. The Dancing with the Stars pro, 42, revealed to Good Morning America on Wednesday (March 23) that he is now stationed in Poland to assist refugees of the horrific war after being overcome with guilt for escaping and not staying to help. “I feel guilty. I feel bad. I feel shame. I feel upset,” Maksim explained on the morning show.
Peta Murgatroyd has mixed feelings about Maksim Chmerkovskiy's return to Poland. Chmerkovskiy, who fled to Poland when Russia invaded Ukraine, recently left the U.S.