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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor

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Krzysztof Fordoński - The Forsterian Professor - your first source of information about E. M. Forster, chairman of the IEMFS @emforstersociety.bsky.social editor-in-chief of the Polish Journal of English Studies @pjes-pase.bsky.social

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 4d

Who will I meet in Nancy?

Laboratoire IDEA @laboratoireidea.bsky.social · 6d

[ÉVÉNEMENT 🗓️]
La journée d'études "Questionner la pertinence de E. M. Forster, écrivain britannique (1879-1970), auprès des chercheurs actuels" aura lieu le 10 octobre sur le site Libération de Nancy !

Retrouvez le programme de la journée 👉 shorturl.at/QtjmK

Nos activités 👉 idea.univ-lorraine.fr

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 4d

Perhaps somebody would like to submit a paper about A Passage to India?

ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Call for Contributions. Publication and issue: Lea – Quaderni di Lea. Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural and Literary Exchange Between India and Europe, 1870-1947.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 8 June 2026. #essecfp.
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-volumes-...

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#catchofthegay:
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“You can’t help who you fall in love with.”

— E. M. Forster

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 7d

Two very positive reviews from the external reviewers! Now waiting for the funding from the University of Warsaw...

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 8d

It should be Jerome, obviously, but my head is somewhere else after three days of a conference about Neo-latin poetry...

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 8d

My #shelfie for #internationaltranslationday - not too impressive but I am far from done and I have only six out of over fifty movies I have translated. More next year! Promise! #translation #translationday

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 8d

Saint Hieronymus, our saint patron, from the Church Heritage Museum in Vilnius on the International Translation Day. I guess it is time to finish my translation of Where Angels Fear to Tread... #TranslationDay #translation #translators

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 9d

Your Forsterian Professor in the Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski Courtyard of the Vilnius University during BaroCon 2025 conference.

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 11d

And the conference ended with a concert of classical music to the lyrics of Sarbiewski. Aula Parva of the Vilnius University.

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 12d

This is the way to have fun if you are into Sarbiewski! Exhibition at the Vilnius University Library.

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely accidental meeting at St. John - Sarbiewski and Yours Truly.

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 13d

The company I intend to keep for the rest of the week - Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski.

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 13d

Good night from Vilnius!

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 13d

Sarbiewski daily - Jesuit novitiate where Sarbiewski started his career as a member of the Societas.

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 14d

But Britons were descended from Felix Brutus and his companions so we are back to Rome anyway.

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 14d

Discovery of today (and I will have to correct my book... Fortunately, it is now with the reviewers so there is still time) is that there were 81 translations of A Passage to India in 36 languages. Chinese wins hands down! #emforster

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 14d

I am afraid he visited the Sassnach down South. Or was it Felix Brutus?

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 14d

You mean you don't believe in Scota, the beautiful pharao's daughter???

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 14d

Most European nations went through the phase in the Middle Ages. It is like teething, you can't escape it but if you do, boy, you are in trouble!

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 14d

It is high time to learn that Lithuania was established by the Roman refugee Palemon who escaped the reign of terror of his relative Emperor Nero. Lithuania is not outside the Roman Empire, Lithuania IS the Empire!

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 16d

There were at least 400 translations of E. M. Forster's works - books and collections of short stories - between the Swedish translation of A Passage to India in 1925 and the Ukrainian translation of A Room with a View in 2025. More details in my book which has just been sent to the publisher.

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 19d

I will reciprocate talking about Isaac Watts "improving" Sarbiewski.

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 20d

Reception confirmed!

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 22d

New Portuguese language translation of Maurice available for preorders!

Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks!