Tree of the Year

Tysiącletni dąb będzie reprezentował Wielką Brytanię w europejskim konkursie na drzewo roku 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kljUgD0lZqo

 Now the Allerton Oak in Liverpool has been voted England’s tree of the year and Britain’s representative for a European-wide competition.

The 1,000-year-old oak in Calderstones park, Allerton, won 34% of the vote in the Woodland trust contest , beating other impressive trees, including a 200-year-old sycamore growing on the wall of Colchester castle and an oak with limbs like a triffid on the Isle of Wight.   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/23/liverpools-1000-year-old-oak-is-englands-tree-of-the-year

Nobel Prizes in Literature.

Miło poczytać po angielsku, co inni piszą o sukcesie Olgi Tokarczuk.

• Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austria's Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.Two winners were named - one for 2019 and one for 2018 - because the prize was not awarded last year.https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49976107
• Ms Tokarczuk, whose books have been lyrically translated into English by Jennifer Croft and Antonia Lloyd-Jones, was lauded for her “narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”. In 2018 she won the Man Booker International prize for “Flights”, a literary dreamscape that focused on travel, history and jetlag.https://www.economist.com/prospero/2019/10/10/nobel-prizes-in-literature-olga-tokarczuk-and-peter-handke
• Tokarczuk, a literary star in Europe was named the winner of last year's prize, while the 2019 award went to the influential and controversial Handke.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/olga-tokarczuk-peter-handke-win-nobel-literature-prizes-191004144319697.html

Możemy też zapoznać się z życiorysem noblistki :

• Olga Tokarczuk was born 1962 in Sulechów in Poland, and lives in Wrocław. Her parents were teachers and her father also functioned as school librarian. In the library she read pretty much everything she could get hold of and it was here that she developed her literary appetite. After studies in psychology at the University of Warsaw she made her debut as a fiction writer 1993 with Podróz ludzi Księgi (“The Journey of the Book-People”)......https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2018/bio-bibliography/

Leniwi zamiast czytać mogą pooglądać:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hljliIHQnJU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XOvcel2BDw