Institute of Light

Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk; IBL) is a scientific institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences based in the Staszic Palace in Warsaw, established on 24 July 1948. The Institute carries out documentation and editorial projects including “Polska Bibliografia Literacka” (“Polish Literary Bibliography”), “Słownik Polszczyzny XVI wieku” (“Dictionary of the 16th Century Polish Language”), “Słownik Współczesnych Pisarzy i Badaczy Literatury” (“Dictionary of Contemporary Writers and Literary Researchers”), “Biblioteka Pisarzy Staropolskich” (“Library of Old Polish Writers”) and “Biblioteka Pisarzy Polskiego Oświecenia” (“Library of Writers of the Polish Enlightenment”), as well as the editions of the writings of Jan Kochanowski, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński and Eliza Orzeszkowa. The institute runs a library, which has manuscripts of Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Maria Konopnicka, Jan Kasprowicz, Witold Gombrowicz and Czesław Miłosz, and an archive. The Department of Contemporary Literature Documentation of the institute issued an online biographical dictionary, Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury XX i XXI wieku. Grzegorz Marzec has been serving as institute's director since 1 April 2022.