Andrzej Stasiuk
Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers, journalists and literary critics. He is best known for his travel literature and essays that describe the reality of Eastern Europe and its relationship with the West.
After being dismissed from secondary school, Stasiuk dropped out also from a vocational school and drifted aimlessly, became active in the Polish pacifist movement and spent one and a half years in prison for deserting the army - as legend has it, in a tank. His experiences in prison provided him with the material for the stories in his literary debut in 1992. Titled Mury Hebronu ("The Walls of Hebron"), it instantly established him as a premier literary talent. After a col
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Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life".
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For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.
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Paweł Sołtys
Paweł Sołtys – muzyk, autor piosenek. Jako Pablopavo wydał kilkanaście płyt, zagrał około tysiąca koncertów. Studiował rusycystykę, ale studiów nie ukończył. Jego opowiadania ukazywały się w „Lampie”, „Ricie Baum”, „Studium”. Jego prozatorski debiut Mikrotyki otrzymał nominację do Paszportów Polityki 2017.
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Maria Wirtemberska
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Nino Haratischwili
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Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she attended a German-language school. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved to Germany for two years in the early 1990s with her mother, where she attended the seventh and the eighth grade of school. Her family returned to Georgia afterwards. Haratischwili later moved to Germany again in order to attend drama school in Hamburg. She became a German citizen in 2012.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Szczepan Twardoch, ur. 1979, pisarz i publicysta. Z wykształcenia socjolog, studiował socjologię i filozofię na Międzywydziałowych Indywidualnych Studiach Humanistycznych na Uniwersytecie Śląskim w Katowicach.
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Mieszka w Pilchowicach na Górnym Śląsku.
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Zyta Rudzka
Polska dramatopisarka, pisarka, poetka, publicystka, autorka scenariuszy filmów dokumentalnych, psychoterapeutka wyspecjalizowana w poradnictwie z zakresu seksuologii. Zaczynała jako poetka. W r. 1989 ogłosiła tomik wierszy Ruchoma rzeczywistość, z czasem objawiła się jako prozatorka, wydając – bardzo dobrze przyjętą przez krytykę – powieść Białe klisze (1993). Już wówczas doszedł do głosu charakterystyczny dla Rudzkiej styl narracji powieściowej – silnie zmetaforyzowany, zorganizowany wokół archetypów i symboli, zrodzony zapewne z inspiracji psychoanalitycznych. Pisarka chętnie umieszcza swej opowieści w umownych realiach, lubi wszelkiego typu uniwersalizacje, zwłaszcza te, które mówią o spotkaniu kobiety i mężczyzny, do jakiego dochodzi j
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Wiesław Myśliwski
Wiesław Myśliwski is a Polish novelist. In his novels and plays Myśliwski concentrates on life in the Polish countryside. He is twice the winner of the Nike Award (Polish equivalent of the Booker Prize) for Widnokrąg (1996) and Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli (2006).
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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Iwaszkiewicz was born in Kalnik (now in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine). After the death of his father (an accountant), he and his mother lived in Warsaw between 1902–1904, and then moved back to Ukraine in 1904–1912. He graduated from a secondary school in Kiev in 1912 and enrolled at the Law Faculty of Kiev University. After World War I, in October 1918 he returned to Warsaw. There, he joined a group of local artists who had started Pro Arte et Studio arts magazine. Iwaszkiewicz with Julian Tuwim and Antoni Słonimski co-founded the Skamander group of experimental poets in 1919.
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In 1922 he married Anna Lilpop, a daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, and the couple settled in Podkowa Leśna in the suburb of Warsaw. In 1928 they moved to a newly buil -
Wojciech Tochman
Reporter, non-fiction writer. He has twice been shortlisted for the NIKE Literary Prize and has won the Polish Book Publishers Association Award.
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He began his career as a reporter at the youth weekly Na przełaj before leaving school, and soon after he joined the first reporting team at "Gazeta Wyborcza". His reports from this period were published in a book, Stairs Don’t Burn (2000, 2006). Before he got his masters degree at Warsaw University he went to Bosnia with a convoy organised by humanitarian aid worker Janina Ochojska. He then went back to the Balkans repeatedly for many years, and the book Like Eating A Stone is the result of those journeys. His next book was Dear Daughter (2005), the moving account of his efforts to find out what h -
Paweł Huelle
Paweł Huelle (b. 10 September 1957 in Gdańsk, Poland) was a Polish prose writer.
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Huelle studied philology at Gdańsk University, and later became a journalist. He worked for a time for the press service of Solidarność (Solidarity). He has also taught literature, philosophy, and history. He was director of the Polish Television in his home town from 1994 to 1999.
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Olga Tokarczuk
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For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.
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Bruno Schulz
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At a very early age, Schulz developed an interest in the arts. He studied at a gymnasium in Drohobycz from 1902 to 1910, and proceeded to study architecture at Lwów University. In 1917 he briefly studied architecture in Vienna. After World War I, the region of Galicia which included Drohobycz became a Polish territory. In the postwar period, Schulz came to teach drawing in a Polish gymnasium, from 1924 to 1941. His employment kept him in his hometown, although he disliked his profession as a schoolteacher, apparently maintaining it only because it was his so -
Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) - prozaik, poeta, publicysta. Urodził się w Żytomierzu w Ukrainie, zmarł śmiercią samobójczą w Warszawie. Studiował polonistykę na podziemnym Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, brał aktywny udział w podziemnym życiu kulturalnym w czasie wojny. W 1943 roku został aresztowany, trafił do obozu koncentracyjnego w Oświęcimiu, następnie przetransportowano go między innymi do Dachau. W 1946 roku powrócił do kraju. Po 1948 roku stał się zwolennikiem partii komunistycznej, a swoją twórczość podporządkował założeniom realizmu socjalistycznego. Zadebiutował w 1942 roku cyklem wierszy Gdziekolwiek ziemia. W 1948 roku opublikował dwa tomy opowiadań - Pożegnanie z Marią i Kamienny świat - które spotkały się z szerokim odzewem.
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Dorota Masłowska
Masłowska was born July 3, 1983 in Wejherowo, and grew up there. She applied for the University of Gdańsk's faculty of psychology and was accepted, but left the studies for Warsaw, where she joined the culture studies at the Warsaw University. She first appeared in the mass-media when her debut book Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną (translated to English as either White and Red in the UK or Snow White and Russian Red in the US) was published. Largely controversial, mostly because of the language seen by many as vulgar, cynical and simple, the book was praised by many intellectuals as innovative and fresh. Among the most active supporters of Masłowska were Marcin Świetlicki and Polityka weekly staff, most notably renowned writer J
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Andrzej Sapkowski
Andrzej Sapkowski, born June 21, 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. His first short story, The Witcher (Wiedźmin), was published in Fantastyka, Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of The Witcher, comprising three collections of short stories and five novels. This cycle and his many other works have made him one of the best-known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and three National Magazine Awards.
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His latest book, The Human Scale , is a sweeping, timely thriller, in which a Palestinian-American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza. According to The New York Times, “Wright succeeds in this complex, deeply felt work.”
He is the author of 11 nonfiction books. His book about the rise of al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006), was published to immediate and widespread acclaim. It has been translated into 25 languages and won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Ge -
Stanisław Barańczak
Stanisław Barańczak was a Polish poet, literary critic, translator, scholar, editor and lecturer. His book, "Chirurgiczna Precyzja" ("Surgical Precision"), won the 1999 Nike Award.
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Tadeusz Konwicki
Prose writer, screenwriter and film director. Founder of the 'cinema d'auteur' in Poland and author of 20 books. Born in 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, near Vilnius (today Naujoji Vilnia, Lithuania), died on January 7th in Warsaw at 88 years old.
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Konwicki was educated at the Universities of Cracow and Warsaw and began writing for newspapers and periodicals. He served on the editorial boards of leading literary magazines and followed the official Communist Party line. His first work, Przy budowie (1950; “At the Construction Site”), won the State Prize for Literature. He began a career as a filmmaker and scriptwriter in 1956; his film Ostatni dzień lata (“The Last Day of Summer”) won the Venice Film Festival Grand Prix in 1958. By the late 1960s he had -
Weronika Murek
Absolwentka Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. Laureatka Gdyńskiej Nagrody Dramaturgicznej 2015 za Feinweinblein. Za debiutancki zbiór opowiadań Uprawa roślin południowych metodą Miczurina nominowana do Paszportów „Polityki” 2015w kategorii literatura, Nagrody Literackiej „Nike” 2016 oraz do Nagrody Literackiej Gdynia 2016 w kategorii proza.
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Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around the developing world and reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; he lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, was jailed forty times, and survived four death sentences. During some of this time he also worked for the Polish Secret Service, although little is known of his role.
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Sophie D. Coe
Sophie Dobzhansky Coe was an anthropologist, food historian and author, primarily known for her work on the history of chocolate.
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She graduated in 1955, majoring in anthropology, from Radcliffe College, where she was apparently known for her linguistic prowess (speaking Russian and Portuguese). She continued her postgraduate studies at Harvard and received her PhD in anthropology in 1964.
Sophie Coe made a unique contribution to the field through her study of native New World cooking, writing a number of scholarly essays for Petits Propos Culinaires (PPC). Her research in this area culminated in America's First Cuisines (1994). This work contained a substantial amount of material on chocolate, which Sophie Coe decided to expand upon for her n -
Tadeusz Różewicz
Tadeusz Różewicz - poet, playwright, and novelist, was one of Poland's most versatile and pre-eminent modern writers.
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Remarkable for his simultaneous mastery of poetry, prose, and drama, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Tadeusz Różewicz has been translated into over forty languages. The most recent English-language volumes, recycling (2001), New Poems (2007) and Sobbing Superpower (2011), were finalists for the 2003 Popescu Prize (UK), the 2008 National Book Critics Award (USA) and the 2012 Griffin Prize (Canada) respectively. In 2007 he was awarded the European Prize for Literature.
Mother Departs (Matka odchodzi, 1999), exploring the life of his mother Stefania, is perhaps his most personal work. It won the Nike Prize i -
Dipa Sanatani
Dipa Sanatani is a Singaporean author and the founder of Twinn Swan, an independent publishing house dedicated to Modern Sacred Literature.
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Her latest work of poetry, Kingfisher, traces the ecstatic flight and restless longing of a soul breaking free from its confines. Ink Stained Soul, a work of prose-poetry, follows a writer who, after years of failure and rejection, discovers a divine calling that reshapes her sense of purpose. The River Empress explores the tension between rejection and reverence as a goddess walks the earth, while Oneness meditates on the delicate boundary between solitude and intimacy, revealing the sacred rhythms that underlie human connection.
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Ignacy Karpowicz
Born 1976, prose-writer, traveler, translator; he made his debut with the novel Uncool (2006), and then published another novel, The Miracle (2007), and a collection of impressions from his journeys around Ethiopia, The Emperor’s New Flower (and Bees) (2007); which was nominated for the POLITYKA Passport; he lives (mainly) in Warsaw.
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The first part of Ignacy Karpowicz’s debut novel, Uncool, might seem to suggest that we have here another young prose-writer seeking to describe the various miseries of the provincial life, as the author brings us young and frustrated residents of Białystok who have difficulty making ends meet. But the second part of the novel clearly leans toward unhinged, no-holds-barred grotesque, in which the writer opens th -
Wiesław Myśliwski
Wiesław Myśliwski is a Polish novelist. In his novels and plays Myśliwski concentrates on life in the Polish countryside. He is twice the winner of the Nike Award (Polish equivalent of the Booker Prize) for Widnokrąg (1996) and Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli (2006).
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His first novel translated into English was The Palace, translated by Ursula Phillips. His novel Stone Upon Stone (Kamień na kamieniu), won the 2012 Best Translated Book Award, translated by Bill Johnston (Archipelago Books). -
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Magdalena Tulli
In 1995 Magdalena Tulli got Kościelscy Award. She was shortlisted for the NIKE Award two times. Her books were translated to English, German, French, Czech, Hungarian and Latvian. She is a member of Polish Writers Society. In 2007 she got a special award - distinction of Gdynia Literary Award.
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She translated a few books: The anger of heaven by Fleur Jaeggy (for this translation from Italian she received the award of Literature of the world magazine), Amerigo's long day by Italo Calvino and Lost by Marcel Proust. -
Tomasz Różycki
Tomasz Różycki (ur. 29 maja 1970 w Opolu) - polski poeta, tłumacz, romanista, mieszka w Opolu. Laureat Nagrody Kościelskich, którą otrzymał za poemat "Dwanaście stacji" (2004). Publikował w licznych czasopismach w Polsce i za granicą. Jego wiersze tłumaczone były na wiele języków europejskich. Fragment utworu "Dwanaście stacji" stał się tematem rozszerzonej matury z języka polskiego w roku 2007. Tom "Kolonie" był nominowany do Literackiej Nagrody Nike w roku 2007 i znalazł się w finałowej siódemce tej nagrody. W 2010 roku został laureatem Nagrody "Kamień", przyznawanej podczas Festiwalu "Miasto Poezji".
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Ornela Vorpsi
Ornela Vorpsi, born in Tirana in 1968, left her home country at the age of 22, lived in Milan for six years and finally moved to Paris in 1997. The prose author, fine artist, photographer and video artist studied at the colleges of art in Tirana, Milan and Paris. She has participated in exhibitions of contemporary art, most recently "The Balkans crossroad the future" (2004, Bologna), "Blood & Honey" (2003, Vienna) and "Politique d'intérieur" (2002, Paris). In 2001, she published "Nothing obvious", a volume of her photographic works (Scalo Verlag, Zurich). This was followed by two books, written in Italian but first published in France "Le pays où l'on ne meurt jamais" (The country where one never dies, Actes Sud, 2004, translated into more
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Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz
Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (born as Jarosław Marek Szulc was a Polish poet, essayist, dramatist and literary critic.
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As a poet, he was influenced by the traditions of classicism and the baroque. He has received multiple prizes for his novels, essays, and translations, including the Kościelski Prize (1967), S. Vincenz Prize (1985), and Polish PEN Club Prize. His volume of poetry Zachód słońca w Milanówku won the prestigious Nike Award in 2003.
Although Rymkiewicz was primarily a poet, he is better known as the author of two influential novels that contributed to the two most important debates of the 1980s: that involving martial law (1981) and Polish-Jewish relations. His novel Rozmowy polskie latem, 1983 (Polish Conversations in Summer 1983) d -
Izabela Filipiak
Polish writer, an essayist, a columnist, and a scholar.
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She debuted in the beginning of the 90s as one of the most distinct figures of Polish literary life. In her short stories and essays, she promoted the new literature in democratic Poland as open to voices previously excluded from cultural discourse. Her novel Absolutna Amnezja published in 1995 critiques the communist past from the point of view socially maladjusted young women. The book mixes satirical representation of authoritarian schools and dysfunctional families with the historical events from the pre-Solidarity period, and discusses education as breaking the spirits of girls through an elaborate application of double standards. When the critics attacked the novel, Maria Janion, -
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Jerzy Andrzejewski was a Polish novelist, short-story writer, and political dissident noted for his attention to moral issues important in 20th-century Poland and for his realistic fiction.
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Andrzejewski was born into a middle-class family, and the young writer studied Polish language and literature at the University of Warsaw. The stories published in his first book, Drogi nieuniknione (1936; “Unavoidable Ways”), originally appeared in a right-wing periodical, with whom he soon severed relations. That volume was followed by the novel Ład serca (1938; “Heart’s Harmony”), in which Andrzejewski tried to find in Roman Catholic teachings solutions to the problems of contemporary life. During the German occupation of World War II, he participated -
Jerzy Pilch
Jerzy Pilch was a Polish writer, columnist, and journalist.
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Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal. -
Włodzimierz Odojewski
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Włodimierz Odojewski (Polen, 1930-2016) wrote numerous novels, stories, theater plays and poems. He was awarded many literary prizes. In 1971 he emigrated to Paris and subsequently to München, to return to Poland again in 1989.