Marek Krajewski

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  Hari Kunzru

  Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist, author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission and My Revolutions. Of mixed English and Kashmiri Pandit ancestry, he grew up in Essex. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford University, then gained an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in New York City.
  
  

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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.
  
  The main character of The Witcher (alternative translation: The Hexer) is Geralt,

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  Lian Hearn

  Lian Hearn's beloved Tales of the Otori series, set in an imagined feudal Japan, has sold more than four million copies worldwide and has been translated into nearly forty languages. It is comprised of five volumes: ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR, GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW, BRILLIANCE OF THE MOON, THE HARSH CRY OF THE HERON and HEAVEN'S NET IS WIDE. The series was followed by two standalone novels, BLOSSOMS AND SHADOWS and THE STORYTELLER AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS, also set in Japan.
  
  Hearn's forthcoming series: The Tale of Shikanoko will be published by FSG in 4 volumes in 2016. Book 1 will be EMPEROR OF EIGHT ISLANDS out in late-April 2016, followed by book 2: AUTUMN PRINCESS, DRAGON CHILD (June), book 3: LORD OF THE DARKWOOD (August), and the fina

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  Camilla Läckberg

  Before she became one of Sweden’s most popular crime writers, Camilla Läckberg (b. 1974) worked as a marketing director and product manager for several years. Her first two crime novels, Isprinsessan (The Ice Princess) and Predikanten (The Preacher), received rave reviews from the Swedish press and quickly found a large readership. But her big breakthrough came when Stenhuggaren (The Stonecutter) was nominated for The Crime Novel of the Year award in 2005, and also when Olycksfågeln (The Stranger) and Tyskungen (The Hidden Child) were made lead titles in Bonnier’s Book Club.
  
  Camilla’s books have gained even more popularity after being adapted into a TV-series, produced by SVT (Swedish Television).
  
  In April 2017 her tenth book in the Fjällback

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  Hanna Krall

  Urodziła się w Warszawie w rodzinie żydowskiej. Podczas II wojny światowej zginęło wielu członków jej najbliższej rodziny. Wojnę przeżyła tylko dlatego, że była ukrywana przed Niemcami. Cudem została ocalona w czasie transportu do getta. Holocaust i losy Żydów polskich z czasem stały się głównym tematem jej twórczości.
  
  Od 1955 r. pracowała w redakcji "Życia Warszawy", od 1966 r. w "Polityce", której korespondentem w ZSRR była w latach 1966-1969. Reportaże z ZSRR wydała w tomie Na wschód od Arbatu.W latach 1982-1987 była zastępcą kierownika literackiego Zespołu Filmowego "Tor". Na początku lat 90. związała się z Gazetą Wyborczą.
  
  Światową sławę przyniósł jej oryginalny w formie wywiad z Markiem Edelmanem Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem (1977). Ostatn

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  Olga Tokarczuk

  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".
  
  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.
  
  Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. The

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  Bolesław Prus

  Bolesław Prus (pronounced:[bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; Hrubieszów, August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist who is known especially for his novels The Doll and Pharaoh. He was the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature and remains a distinctive voice in world literature. Głowacki took the pen name "Prus" from the name of his family coat-of-arms.
  
  An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old soldier in the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, in which he suffered severe injuries and imprisonment.
  
  In 1872 at age 25, in Warsaw, Prus settled into a distinguished 40-year journalistic career. As a sideline, to augment

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  Stefan Żeromski

  Stefan Żeromski ( [ˈstɛfan ʐɛˈrɔmski] Strawczyn near Kielce, October 14, 1864 – November 20, 1925, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż.
  
  In 1892–96 Żeromski worked as a librarian—during the last two years, as the librarian—at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
  
  In recognition of his literary achievements, he was granted the privilege of using an apartment at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. In 1924 he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in literature.[2]
  
  His novel were filmed by Walerian Borowczyk - Dzieje grzechu (A Story of Sin), Andrzej Wajda - Popioły (The Ashes), Filip Bajon - Przedw

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  Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

  Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (May 20, 1919 - July 4, 2000) was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist and soldier. He is best known for writing a personal account of life in the Soviet gulag - A World Apart.
  
  He was born in Kielce. His studies of Polish literature at Warsaw University were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War (German invasion of Poland). During the Fall of 1939 he co-founded an underground resistance organization "Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa, PLAN". As the organization's courier he traveled to then Soviet occupied Lwów (Lviv), but was arrested in March 1940 by the NKVD and sentenced on fabricated espionage charges. Imprisoned in Vitsebsk and a gulag in Arkhangelsk region for 2 years, he was released in 19

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  Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak

  Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak – dziennikarka, absolwentka polonistyki na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim. Autorka biografii Słonimski. Heretyk na ambonie (Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 2012), nominowanej w najważniejszych konkursach na Historyczną Książkę Roku (im. K. Moczarskiego i O. Haleckiego), cenionej biografii Kazimiery Iłłakowiczówny Iłła (Marginesy 2017), nominowanej do Nagrody im. Józefa Łukaszewicza, oraz bestsellerowej książki Służące do wszystkiego (Marginesy 2018), która znalazła się na liście dziesięciu najważniejszych książek 2018 roku dwumiesięcznika "Książki. Magazyn do Czytania" i dostała nominację do Nagrody Historycznej "Polityki" oraz Nagrody "Newsweeka" im. T. Torańskiej. Jej najnowsza książka Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach (Marginesy

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  Robert Małecki

  Robert Małecki (ur. 1977 r.) politolog, filozof i dziennikarz, ale przede wszystkim miłośnik kryminałów i thrillerów oraz nowej zabawki – czytnika ebooków; szczęśliwy uczestnik warsztatów kreatywnego pisania realizowanych w ramach Międzynarodowego Festiwalu Kryminału we Wrocławiu, a także tych organizowanych przez Maszynę do Pisania; laureat ogólnopolskich konkursów na opowiadanie kryminalne (MFK Wrocław i Kryminalna Piła). Jeśli w jego głowie nie pulsuje bas Bena Otręby i nie rozbrzmiewają solówki Jurka Styczyńskiego, znaczy, że jest chory. Do tej pory nie był.

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  Przemysław Piotrowski

  Były dziennikarz sportowy, a potem śledczy w „Gazecie Lubuskiej”. Absolwent Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego, studiujący również w Hiszpanii i USA. Kocha podróże i nowe wyzwania. Pasjonat sportu, podróży, geografii i historii. Wychowany na Stephenie Kingu, Grahamie Mastertonie, Connie Igguldenie i Bernardzie Cornwellu. Zadebiutował entuzjastycznie przyjętym thrillerem Kod Himmlera, następnie wykreował mroczny świat w ciężkiej gatunkowo Drodze do piekła. Najnowsza powieść – Radykalni. Terror, pierwsza część cyklu Radykalni – to thriller political fiction, podejmujący niezwykle trudny i kontrowersyjny temat radykalnego islamu. To książka o miłości, stracie, bólu i cierpieniu. I nienawiści, która często kwitnie powoli i niepostrzeżenie, ale zawsz

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  Michał Bilewicz

  Polski psycholog społeczny, socjolog, publicysta, doktor habilitowany nauk społecznych, profesor nadzwyczajny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Kierownik Centrum Badań nad Uprzedzeniami UW oraz wykładowca na Wydziale Psychologii UW. Był zastępcą przewodniczącego Komitetu Psychologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk oraz członkiem zarządu Międzynarodowego Towarzystwa Psychologii Politycznej.

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  Philip G. Zimbardo

  Philip George Zimbardo was an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later criticized severely for both ethical and scientific reasons. He authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He was also the initiator and president of the Heroic Imagination Project.

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