Jan Michalski
{{Short description|Polish/Swiss/French book publisher}}
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Jan Michalski (1953–2002) was a Polish/Swiss/French book publisher who, along with Vera Michalski-Hoffmann,{{Cite news |date=2011-03-25 |title=Hoffmann-La Roche Family Pool Loses Voting Majority in Roche |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-03-25/roche-founder-s-family-loses-voting-majority-as-shareholder-leaves-group |access-date=2024-03-29 |work=Bloomberg |language=en}} founded the Jan Michalski Foundation in Montricher, Switzerland{{cite web|title=Vera Michalski PhD 1980 (fr)|url=http://graduateinstitute.ch/alumni/home_alumni/parcours/michalski_fr.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130219212354/http://graduateinstitute.ch/alumni/home_alumni/parcours/michalski_fr.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-19|publisher=Graduate Institute}} which awards the annual Jan Michalski Prize in literature.[http://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/4108/interview-vera-michalski-on-why-she-acquired-delp.html] Interview: Vera Michalski On Why She Acquired Delpire Editions
Publishing
In 1986, Michalski and Vera Michalski-Hoffmann created Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc to publish Slavic writers of novels, short stories, plays and poetry as well as non-fiction essays, documents, personal journals and memoires.{{cite web |title=Historique des Editions Noir sur Blanc |url=http://www.leseditionsnoirsurblanc.fr/historique|publisher=Les Editions Noir sur Blanc}} Noir sur Blanc was
created in Romandy, then in Paris in 1990 and Warsaw in 1991.[https://fondation-janmichalski.com/media/pages/fondation/e01e78ee10-1647430244/020902_article_frederic-pajak_le-temps.pdf] The combats of Jan Michalski Frédéric Pajak at Le Temos One of the first texts published was Proust contre la déchéance, a short essay written by the painter Józef Czapski between 1940 and 1941 when a prisoner in the Starobyelsk camp in the Soviet Union.[https://fondation-janmichalski.com/media/pages/fondation/e01e78ee10-1647430244/020902_article_frederic-pajak_le-temps.pdf] The combats of Jan Michalski Frédéric Pajak at Le Temos
Subsequently, the (now married) couple acquired several publishing houses that were later brought together under the Lausanne-based holding group Libella. The holding now includes Noir sur Blanc, Les Éditions Phébus, Buchet-Chastel and Le Temps Apprivoisé, among others. They published in Polish books by Umberto Eco, Charles Bukowski, Henry Millar, Blaise Cendrars and many others. Polish authors, such as Sławomir Mrożek were translated into French and English and sold in their Librairie Polonaise book store, located on Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris, which still exists. Subsequently, in 2000, they founded the Libella editorial group.[http://lejournaldelaphotographie.com/entries/8573/vera-michalski-by-christian-caujolle] Le journal de la photographie
Jan Michalski Foundation
In 2002, following the premature death of Jan Michalski at age 49, Hoffmann continued the project which resulted in the creation of the Jan Michalski Foundation in 2004. The Jan Michalski Foundation, inaugurated in 2013, offers a large multilingual book library of 80,000 volumes, an auditorium, an exhibition hall, a literary café and cabins used as writing residences. The foundation awards an annual prize, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.
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External links
- [http://www.fondation-janmichalski.com Fondation Jan Michalski]
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