On Friday May 26, Filip Springer, author of History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town, will appear at Hay Festival.
For twenty-nine years Hay Festival has brought together writers from around the world to debate and share stories at its festival in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. Hay celebrates great writing from poets and scientists, lyricists and comedians, novelists and environmentalists, and the power of great ideas to transform our way of thinking. We believe the exchange of views and meeting of minds that our festivals create inspire revelations personal, political and educational. Hay is, in Bill Clinton's phrase, "The Woodstock of the mind." Hay Festival was founded around a kitchen table in 1987 and continues to attract the most exciting writers, filmmakers, comedians, politicians and musicians to inspire, delight and entertain. For ten days in May, Hay is full of stories, ideas, laughter and music.
When: Friday, May 26, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Where: Cube, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, United Kingdom
Tickets: £7.30
By Filip Springer
Translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye
Winner of Asymptote Journal’s 2016 Close Approximations Translation Contest and Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize, History of a Disappearance is the fascinating true story of a small mining town in the southwest of Poland that, after seven centuries of history, disappeared.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061157
Publication date: Apr 4, 2017