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January 2025
We talk with Maria Deskur, co-founder and president of the Powszechnego Czytania Foundation, about what reading gives us and our children, about the potential threat to paper books posed by technology, and answer an important question – do Poles read books?
December 2024
About the organizations honored by the United States Library of Congress and the symposium that accompanied the awards ceremony.
November 2024
Ron Charles writes about the Universal Reading Foundation, winner of the Library of Congress Literacy Award, in The Washington, in the Book Club section.
October 2024
A book is an easily accessible, virtually free tool, thanks to which every child has a chance to develop, achieve professional success, be the subject of their own life and a conscious citizen – says Maria Deskur, president of the Universal Reading Foundation at culture.pl.
September 2024
Republic
The Universal Reading Foundation has become the first Polish organization to receive the 2024 Library of Congress Literacy Award.
September 2024
Polish Radio
The publication "Reading school as a condition of equal opportunities for every child" prepared by Reading Poland is a reflection on the entire life of books in schools. The details were discussed in "Poranek Dwójki" by Maria Deskur, president of the Universal Reading Foundation.
May 2024
Polish Radio 24
The #TataTeżCzyta2024 campaign, organized by the Powszechnego Czytania Foundation and Tatarak publishing house, has been launched. Its main goal is to encourage men, especially fathers and guardians, to read to children.
April 23, 2024
Republic
Maria Deskur: A society that reads is more emotionally and mentally stable.
March 22, 2024
Republic
Rzeczpospolita about the “Reading Poland” initiative and the declaration of the city of Zabrze, which was the first in Poland to sign a commitment by officials to work on readership.
February 22, 2024
Literary Office
The Future of Reading. Who Will Read Books and Participate in Literary Life? Maria Deskur's Voice in the "The Future of Literature" Debate.
October 12, 2023
BOOKLIPS
An article on the BOOKLIPS portal devoted to the Book on Prescription program implemented by FPC.
September 2023
An article in Creative Europe Magazine devoted to the Dad Also Reads campaign.
September 5, 2023
Maria Deskur, president of FPC: "The paradoxes of reading, or why a simple topic is complicated..." pp. 20-25
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Awards and distinctions awarded to the Foundation
