The State Publishing Institute PIW (Polish: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, PIW) is a Polish publishing house founded in Warsaw by the state in 1946 after the end of World War II.[1]
PIW specializes in literature, history, philosophy and social sciences. One of its more popular literary series published since 1968 (Współczesna Proza) includes award-winning novels in translation by writers such as Umberto Eco, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vladimir Nabokov, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Kurt Vonnegut, and Günter Grass. Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy also publishes a popular series of biographies of famous individuals, as well as various encyclopedic books. At present (2011) its president is Rafał Skąpski.