Regarding your world literature tour's search for recommended reading from Poland (4 April), readers who cannot read Polish but know French and would like to explore the rich literature of Poland past and present are lucky: France has a long history of Polish immigration and that certainly explains the huge number of translations from Polish classic and contemporary authors.
But don't despair! You can still find some English translations of writers who, in my opinion, are absolute musts: Witold Gombrowicz, Bruno Schulz (The Street of Crocodiles), and the recently translated The Doll by Boleslaw Prus, which offers a fascinating panorama of 19th-century Warsaw. For the poets, you will find Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska. You'll even find a few contemporary authors: Andrzej Stasiuk (Nine), Pawel Huelle and Olga Tokarczuk. Mickiewicz and Norwid, 19th-century poets, are still a delight to the ear even in translation. Władysław Reymont drew one of the best pictures of 19th-century peasant life with his masterpiece The Peasants.
But I have to crown Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz for his masterfully crafted short stories (remember The Maids of Wilko, made into a film by Andrzej Wajda?) or his novella Mother Joan of the Angels (possessed nuns – cousins of Huxley's convent hysterics) and Andrzej Kusniewicz's The King of the Two Sicilies, an unforgettable stylistic feat which provides the reader with a quasi-cinematic rendition of the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian empire. So rich a literature I could write pages and pages.
Guy Buffel du Vaure
London
• Your article on Krakow's Jewish heritage (Krakow's Jewish quarter emerges from the shadow of the Holocaust, 7 April) sadly omits the mention of an excellent institution in Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter, which for years has been making an outstanding contribution to keeping alive the memory of Jewish history and culture in Poland. Founded, funded and run by Poles, it offers a rich programme of activities each week. For details search online for the Judaica Foundation, Center for Jewish Culture, Krakow.
Dr Zbigniew Pelczynski
Vice-president, Institute of Polish-Jewish Culture
• While I am enjoying this series, I am concerned that one aspect of Poland's recent development is being underreported or ignored. Just as there is a north-south divide in England, a similar situation continues to discriminate against a large area of Poland. The boundary line is the east-west side of the Wisla (Vistula) to the south of Warsaw. Infrastructure developments, such as the 2012 European Championship football stadiums, are good examples. It will be interesting to see which city wins the 2016 capital of culture nomination. Both Lublin and Zamosc should be worthy candidates!
Bogumit Polachowski
Greasby, Wirral
• Re the Polish contribution to the allied cause during the second world war (Debunking stereotypes, 6 April), Marian Rejewski and his colleagues Jerzy Rózycki and Henryk Zygalski were instrumental in cracking the Enigma codes and hence not only founding modern cryptology but substantially shortening the war. They are commemorated here in Britain at Bletchley Park – well worth a visit.
David Bibby
London
• I am very much enjoying your New Europe series but I do wish your main G2 articles had focused a little less exclusively on nuclear families. It would have been interesting for the two-thirds of us who don't live in such households to have had similar insights into our European equivalents.
Barbara Jennings
London
• Delighted to see you giving prominent coverage to Europe (Spain, France, Poland etc). Disappointed to find only day-old copies of the Guardian on sale anywhere in the Brussels European quarter – and even in the Eurostar terminal at the Gare du Midi. ¡Que lastima! Quel dommage! Jaka szkoda!
Simon Maxwell
Brighton