Presentation of a series of books “Poets of the planet” will take place on October 11 in the Library. Masterpieces of the world poetry now are available in Belarusian!
The publisher Dmitri Kolas along with a group of Belarusian literary translators created a poetic series of books “Poets of the planet”.
Eight books have already been published. Works of the most famous poetess of Ancient Greece Sappho, the unrivalled poet of Persian, author of quatrains Omar Khayyám, the bright representative of Italian Enlightenment Petrarch, the king of French poetry Ronsard, the master of sonnets Shakespeare, the great German poet Goethe, the founder of a new poetry Rilke, and the Chilean poetess, the Nobel prize laureate Gabriela Mistral are among them.
The world lyric of different epochs is presented in the best translations of professionals of several generations. Publishing of poetic masterpieces of Baudelaire, Hölderlin, Apollinaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Jan Kochanowski, Keats, Katri Vala is planned. 75 books are awaited.
All editions are of a convenient pocket format and have an original decoration, worked out by Martin Rusetski. Books of a poetic series are targeted at a wide audience, including teachers and pupils, professors and students.
The presentation begins at 16.00 in the gallery “Labyrinth” (3rd floor).
Contact phones: (+375 17) 293 29 80, 293 27 56.
Е-mail: pr@nlb.by
