PWN’s contacts with foreign publishers, which became possible only after 1956, have borne fruit not only in the form of Polish editions of the world’s scientific literature, but also of numerous foreign editions of books written by Polish scholars.

Until the 1990s joint editions by PWN and western publishers were very widespread. As a result of PWN’s cooperation with the following publishing houses: Academic Press, Elsevier, Horwood, INRA, Kluwer, Macmillan, Nijhoff, North Holland, Oxford University Press, Pergamon Press, Plenum, Reidel, Springer and VCH, over 500 co-editions appeared on the market. The publications in the fields of mathematics, nature and engineering were the most popular, while the humanities were considerably less present on the market.

In the years between 1958 and 2004, PWN signed over 600 contracts licensing foreign rights to publishers from all over the World. Among the most frequently translated were such authors as: Andrzej Paczkowski, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Roman Ingarden, Witold Kula, Kazimierz Kuratowski and Hugo Steinhaus, to name only but a few. Some of the works that PWN licensed appeared in several foreign languages i.e. The History of Six Concepts by Władysław Tatarkiewicz. So far the book has been published in English, German, Chinese (in Taiwan), Hungarian, Italian (5 editions), Korean, Romanian, Russian, Spanish (9 editions) and Ukrainian. more »

This was made possibly also due to the Polish Book Institute’s offering translation subsidies in The translation program whose aim is to support foreign editions of Polish literature and humanities. The program was created when Poland became the guest of honor during the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2000. So far over 200 books have received subsidies from the Institute, including several titles from PWN. Should you like to learn more about our publications please feel free to contact our Foreign Rights Department at the contact details listed below or browse our 2007 Rights Guide and the 2008 Rights Guide (7 679 KB, PDF) in pdf format attached herewith. For your convenience, the catalogue is also available in Word format, with a division into categories, on the right hand side of this page

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Our contact details:

FOREIGN RIGHTS DEPARTMENT
Mr. Tomasz Berezinski
Foreign Rights Manager
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Polish Scientific Publishers PWN
ul. Postępu 18
02-676 Warsaw
Poland
tel.:+48 22 69 54 180
fax:+48 22 69 54 288
Tomasz.Berezinski@pwn.com.pl
international@pwn.com.pl

BOOK ORDERS:
Ms. Mariola Rostkowska
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Polish Scientific Publishers PWN
ul. Postępu 18
02-676 Warsaw
Poland
tel.:+48 22 69 54 174
fax:+48 22 69 54 288
international@pwn.com.pl
mariola.rostkowska@pwn.com.pl