“Komedia Judyty” and other dramatic works by Siergiej Kowalow | meeting with the author

About

Writer Siergiej Kowalow, author of, among others, the book “Komedia Judyty”, published by Workshops of Culture, will be Irina Lappo’s guest on September 25 during the Lublin Book Fair.

“Komedia Judyty” is a collection of plays by Belarusian playwright and Polish professor Siergiej Kowalow. The book contains eight texts for the stage and for reading, intended for both adults and children. According to one of the book’s translators, Beata Siwek, Kowalow’s work has enormous stage potential, revealing the most pressing problems, fears and longings of contemporary people, national and individual traumas, and universal desires, needs and hopes. It is a body of work in which a hermeneutic interplay with the texts of European culture takes the reader on a fascinating journey into unknown worlds – from which one returns as someone else.

The meeting will be hosted by Dr. hab. Irina Lappo.

The meeting is organized jointly with the Belarusian publishing house Kamunikat.

The book “Komedia Judyty” was published by Wydawnictwo Warsztaty Kultury. It can be purchased for 50 zł on the publisher’s website.

Details

When: September 25, 2026 (Friday), 17:00
Where: Targi Lublin, Dworcowa 11, Pavilion Stage
Admission: tickets required, more information on the Lubelskie Targi Książki website

Participants

Siergiej Kowalow – Belarusian playwright and literary scholar, author of around thirty dramatic works published in several collections. His works have been translated into, among others, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak (including the Zahorje dialect), German and Turkish, and have been staged at numerous Belarusian and foreign theatres. A professor at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, he has lived in Lublin since 1993.

Irina Lappo – theatre scholar, Slavist, translator and ethnolinguist. Her academic interests focus on the theory and history of theatre and drama, theatre reception, ethnolinguistics, and the theory and practice of translation.

About the Publisher

Wydawnictwo Warsztaty Kultury, run by the municipal institution Workshops of Culture in Lublin, is a small, niche publishing house focused on the literature and culture of Central and Eastern European countries. Its publishing activity centres mainly on the “Wschodni Express” series. The series primarily features prose and essays spanning a wide range of genres, as well as poetry. Its authors include some of the most distinguished writers from Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania. The publishing house also takes pride in its collaboration with Bohdan Zadura, one of Poland’s foremost translators of Ukrainian prose and poetry. Among its achievements is the “Angelus” awa