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My grandmother lived in Podlasie. The house wasn’t in the village itself. The neighborhood was known as “the colony”—scattered farms separated by stands of aspen and avenues of age-old, slender poplars. The cottage stood amid an orchard. In the summer, even at high noon it was cool out there. The apple trees were ancient and […]
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In July, my father left to take the waters; he left me with my mother and older brother at the mercy of the summer days, white from the heat and stunning. Stupefied by the light, we leafed through that great book of the holiday, in which the pages were ablaze with splendour, their sickly sweet […]
In the town of Taydarayda there once lived a tailor by the name of Mr Joseph Threddie. He had a little pointy beard just like a billy goat, and he was always jolly. He was very thin indeed. Every tailor in the world is thin, and that’s a fact, because a tailor has to look […]
“Squad, stand easy… and fall out!” crowed Corporal Billygoat, in a voice that betrayed it had only broken lately. And at once, off duty now, he slapped Dragon on the back and said: “Hey, brother, go find out what’s for dinner.” Dragon eagerly set off for the nearby farm buildings where we were having our […]
The best ideas always came to her at night, as if she were a completely different person at night than in the day. That’s trite, he would have said. He would have changed the subject, begun a new sentence with I. I, he would have said, I think clearest in the day, in the morning, […]
The sand was everywhere. Not just under the miserable bed or in his bowl. It was in his eyes too, the pores of his skin, under his fingernails and in his hair. Sometimes he felt as if his entire body were nothing but grains of sand, joined together by some strange means, and that one […]
Andrzej Stasiuk is considered to be one of Poland’s leading contemporary writer, journalist and literary critic. He is best known for his travel literature and essays that describe the reality of Eastern Europe and its relationship with the West. He was born in Warsaw in 1960, making his debut in 1992 with the book The […]
Bruno Schulz was a Polish-Jewish writer, painter, illustrator, best known for his short stories that revive the magical reality of Poland’s pre-war shtetl’s. He was born in 1892 in Drohobych, a town of modest size located in western Ukraine, not far from the city of Lvov. He spent nearly his entire life there and was […]
Kornel Makuszyński (1884–1953), born in Stryj [now Stryy, Ukraine], writer, journalist and drama critic, one of the most popular authors of children’s books in Poland. During World War I, Makuszyński and his first wife Emilia were deported to Russia. Till 1918, he lived in Kiev, was dramaturg at Stanisława Wysocka’s Polish Theatre and acted as […]
Tadeusz Konwicki was a Polish writer, screenwriter, and film director, known for his bitter novels about the devastations of war and ideology. He was born in 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, Poland (now Naujoji Vilnia, Lithuania). Konwicki’s father died when he was three, and because of his mother’s deteriorating health, he was raised by extended family […]
Olga Tokarczuk, born in 1962, is the author of novels and essays, and is considered to be the most admired writer of the middle generation in Poland. She has won numerous awards and honorable mentions, including the Nike award in 2008, where she was unanimously chosen (this rarely happens) by the judges and the wide […]
Paweł Huelle, one of the prominent Polish writers living today, was born in Gdańsk in 1957. Huelle is a graduate in Polish of the Gdańsk University and has also worked in that city as an employee of the “Solidarity” press office, university lecturer, journalist, director of the Gdańsk Polish Television Center, and, most recently, as […]
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