Jan Michalski

[3] In 1986, Michalski and Vera Michalski-Hoffmann created Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc to publish Slavic writers of novels, short stories, plays and poetry as well as non-fiction essays, documents, personal journals and memoires.

[5] One of the first texts published was Proust contre la déchéance, a short essay written by the painter Józef Czapski between 1940 and 1941 when a prisoner in the Starobyelsk camp in the Soviet Union.

The holding now includes Noir sur Blanc, Les Éditions Phébus, Buchet-Chastel and Le Temps Apprivoisé, among others.

Polish authors, such as Sławomir Mrożek were translated into French and English and sold in their Librairie Polonaise book store, located on Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris, which still exists.

The Jan Michalski Foundation, inaugurated in 2013, offers a large multilingual book library of 80,000 volumes, an auditorium, an exhibition hall, a literary café and cabins used as writing residences.