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This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with award-winning Polish poet and essayist Adam Zagajewski, a man who champions ardour and joy over irony. They talk about his life, work and growing up in postwar Poland.

More in the special series Memory and Myth: The Rebirth of Central Europe this week on Writers and Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Julia Hartwig, one of Poland's most highly respected poets. During the Second World War, she was a member of the underground Home Army and a student of the underground university in Warsaw. Also, Ivan Klíma, the foremost Czech novelist and essayist of his generation. Interned as a child at the Terezin concentration camp, he became one of his country's…