La letteratura polacca per l’infanzia in Italia (1991-2021)

Abstract

Polish children’s literature is traditionally the least represented sector in the panorama of translated literature in Italy. During the twentieth century, only few works of Polish children’s literature were translated into Italian. However, in the last thirty years - and in the last two decades in particular - the situation has changed radically. This is due both to the increase of cultural and editorial interest in the sector in Italy, and to the increase of the literary and artistic level of Polish production (after a crisis of the 1980s), accompanied in the new millennium by a new promotional policy abroad implemented by public institutions. The most represented sector of Polish children’s literature in Italy today is the picture book.