Poland set for National Reading Day

“September 3, the first Saturday of the month, and the national reading of Quo Vadis, a beautiful tale of love, a collapsing empire but most of all, of the power of faith that can move mountains,” says President Andrzej Duda in a special video in which both he and First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda read fragments from the novel that brought its author the Nobel prize for literature.

National Reading Day was launched in 2012 by former President Bronisław Komorowski with a national reading of Adam Mickiewicz’s epic poem “Pan Tadeusz”.

The aim was to promote Polish literary classics and the beauty of the spoken word.

This year’s event officially starts this Saturday at 11am in Saski Garden park in Warsaw – with a reading by the President and First Lady.