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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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Roland Topor

A French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril.

Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimérique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski in 1976. The Tenant is the story of a Parisian of Polish descent, who develops an obsession regarding what has happened to his apartment's previous tenant. It is a chilling exploration of alienation and identity, asking disturbing questions about how we define ourselves. The later novel Joko's Anniversary (1969), another fable about loss of identity, is a vicious satire on social conformity. Themes Topor returne

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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.

See also Ryszard Kapuściński Prize

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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).

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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Edward Redliński

Polski prozaik, scenarzysta i dramatopisarz, reporter.

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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.

See also Ryszard Kapuściński Prize

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Witold Gombrowicz

Gombrowicz was born in Małoszyce, in Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a wealthy gentry family. He was the youngest of four children of Jan and Antonina (née Kotkowska.) In 1911 his family moved to Warsaw. After completing his education at Saint Stanislaus Kostka's Gymnasium in 1922, he studied law at Warsaw University (in 1927 he obtained a master’s degree in law.) Gombrowicz spent a year in Paris where he studied at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales; although he was less than diligent in his studies his time in France brought him in constant contact with other young intellectuals. He also visited the Mediterranean.

When he returned to Poland he began applying for legal positions with little success. In the 1920s he started wr

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Bohumil Hrabal

Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.

Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.

He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.

His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").

He was a great storyteller; his popular pub was At the Golden Tiger (U zlatého tygra) on Husova Street in Prague, where he met

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Sławomir Mrożek

Sławomir Mrożek (born June 29, 1930, died August 15, 2013) was a Polish dramatist and writer.

Mrożek joined the Polish United Workers' Party during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and made a living as a political journalist.

In the late 1950s Mrożek begun writing plays. His first play, "Policja" (The Police), was published in 1958. Mrożek emigrated to France in 1963 and then further to Mexico. He traveled in France, England, Italy, Yugoslavia and other European countries. In 1996 he returned to Poland and settled in Kraków.

His first full-length play "Tango" (1964) – a family saga – is still along with "The Emigrants" (a bitter and ironic portrait of two Polish emigrants in Paris) his best-known work, and continue to

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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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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.

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

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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).

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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Edward Redliński

Polski prozaik, scenarzysta i dramatopisarz, reporter.

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Mariana Leky

Mariana Leky studierte nach einer Buchhandelslehre Kulturjournalismus an der Universität Hildesheim. 2004 erschien ihr erster Roman Erste Hilfe. 2017 erschien ihr Roman Was man von hier aus sehen kann, der wochenlang auf der Spiegel-Bestsellerliste stand und in über vierzehn Sprachen übersetzt wird.

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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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Jakub Małecki

Pisarz, autor książek: Błędy (2008), Przemytnik cudu (2008), Zaksięgowani (2009), Dżozef (2011), W odbiciu (2011), Odwrotniak (2013) i Dygot (2015).

Napisał rownież kilkanaście opowiadań ogłoszonych w prasie i w antologiach. Przełożył z języka angielskiego wiele pozycji, między innymi Brudne wojny Jeremy’ego Scahilla, Paryż wyzwolony Antony’ego Beevora, Moją prawdę Mike’a Tysona i zbiór korespondencji pod tytułem Listy niezapomniane. Publikował w „Newsweeku”, „Polityce”, Angorze”, „Znaku”, „Nowej Fantastyce” i „Tygodniku Powszechnym”.

Laureat nagrody Śląkfa w kategorii „Twórca roku”, dwukrotnie nominowany do Nagrody im. Janusza A. Zajdla. Za przekład książki Listy niezapomniane na język polski zdobył Nagrodę Literacką Miesięcznika KSIĄŻKI. Za

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Julia Fiedorczuk

Poetka, tłumaczka. Debiutowała w roku 2000 tomem poetyckim "Listopad nad Narwią", za który otrzymała nagrodę Polskiego Towarzystwa Wydawców Książek. Autorka kilku zbiorów wierszy: "Bio" (2004), "Planeta rzeczy zagubionych" (2006), "Tlen" (2009) i "tuż-tuż" (2012), a także zbioru opowiadań "Poranek Marii" (2010) oraz powieści "Biała Ofelia" (2012). Laureatka wielu nagród, w tym austriackiej nagrody Huberta Burdy (2005). Adiunkt w Instytucie Anglistyki na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Jej utwory zostały przełożone na 17 języków, w tym walijski, japoński i islandzki. Mieszka w Warszawie.

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Mikołaj Grynberg

Mikołaj Grynberg (ur. 1966) – fotograf i pisarz, z wykształcenia psycholog. Jego zdjęcia były prezentowane niemal na całym świecie. Autor albumów Dużo kobiet (2009), Auschwitz – co ja tu robię? (2010) oraz Ocaleni z XX wieku (2012). Wydał zbiór rozmów Oskarżam Auschwitz. Opowieści rodzinne (2014), tom opowiadań Rejwach (2016) oraz wspomnienia żydowskich emigrantów 1968 Księga wyjścia (2018). Od lat zajmuje się problematyką i historią polskich Żydów w XX wieku. W całej swojej twórczości przyjmuje szczególną perspektywę dialogu, koncentrując się na spotkaniu z innymi, otwarciu na ich osobiste przeżycia i historie.

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Urszula Honek

Urszula Honek, born in 1987, is the author of four poetry books and one short story collection. Her work has been featured in both print and online journals, newspapers, magazines and literary publications.

She is the winner of the Grand Prix of the Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Competition, the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Award, the Adam Włodek Award and the Stanisław Barańczak Award, as part of the Poznań Literary Prize. For White Nights, she was nominated for the International Grand Continent 2022 Award, the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award and Polityka’s Passport Award. The English edition, translated by Kate Webster, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024. In 2023, she won both the Conrad Award and the Kościelski Award,

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Katarzyna Zyskowska

See also: Katarzyna Zyskowska-Ignaciak

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Jakub Jarno

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