Poland

Sławomir Mrożek 

Sławomir Mrożek was born in Borzecin, Poland, in 1930. 1957 saw the publication of his first book, Slon (The Elephant), a collection of satirical short stories. This was followed by works such…...

Piotr Sommer 

Piotr Sommer (b. 1948) is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Czynnik liryczny (1986, Lyric Factor), Nowe stosunki wyrazów (1997, New Relations of Words),  Rano na ziemi (2009,…...

Edward Pasewicz 

Edward Pasewicz was born in 1971 in Kostrzyn and is a poet, writer, and composer. His nine books have won a number of prizes, and his poetry has been translated into German, English, Slovenian, Serbian,…...

Katarzyna Szuster 

Katarzyna Szuster holds an MA in English philology from the University of Łódź, where she also completed postgraduate studies in publishing studies. Her poems and translations have recently…...

Justyna Bargielska 

Justyna Bargielska was born in 1977. She has published three volumes of poetry and a collection of prose. She received the 2001 Rainer Maria Rilke poetry award, the 2011 Gdynia Literary Prize for her prose…...

Jacek Dehnel 

Jacek Dehnel was born in 1980. He is the author of five books of poems; two collections of short stories (Kolekcja, 1999, and Rynek w Smyrnie, 2007); a cycle of four novellas (Balzakiana, 2008); a collection…...

Zuzanna Olszewska 

Zuzanna Olszewska is a junior research fellow in Oriental Studies at St. John’s College, Oxford, working on the ethnography and literary and intellectual history of Iran and Afghanistan. She recently…...

Agnieszka Pokojska 

Agnieszka Pokojska is a freelance translator and editor, and tutor in literary translation at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and author of a number of articles on translation. Her translations…...

Grzegorz Wróblewski 

Grzegorz Wróblewski, born in 1962 in Gdansk and raised in Warsaw, has been living in Copenhagen since 1985. He has published nine volumes of poetry and two collections of short prose pieces in Poland;…...

Ewa Schilling 

Ewa Schilling was born in 1971 in Olsztyn, Poland and completed a Master's of Engineering in Environmental Protection at Akademia Rolniczo-Techniczna (ART). Her first book, Lustro [The Mirror] a collection…...

Andrzej Stasiuk 

Andrzej Stasiuk has received numerous awards for his work, including the NIKE, Poland’s most prestigious literary prize. His books Fado, Nine, Tales of Galicia, and White Raven have all been published…...

Tomasz Kołodziejczak 

Tomasz Kołodziejczak, born in 1967, is a Polish author, screenwriter, and publisher. He made his debut in 1985 with the short story "Rag Dolls" ("Kukiełki") in Technical Review (Przegląd…...

Stanisław Lem 

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical, and satirical writer. His books have been translated into forty-one languages and have sold over twenty-seven million copies.…...

Wojciech Jagielski 

Wojciech Jagielski recently left Poland's leading independent daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, after twenty-one years and has returned to the Polish Press Agency (PAP) where he began his career as a journalist,…...

Gregorz Janusz 

Grzegorz Janusz and Krystof Gawronkiewicz are the writer and artist of the multivolume Adventures of Otto and Watson. The draft version of the first volume, Essence, won the first European Comic Book Competition,…...

Ewa Lipska 

Ewa Lipska was born in Kraków in the Polish People's Republic in 1945. She studied painting and art history at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, and has published nineteen volumes of poetry…...

Paweł Huelle 

Paweł Huelle is a writer, journalist, lecturer at the University of Gdansk, and member of PEN. His first novel, Weiser Dawidek (Who Was David Weiser; 1987) won the Koscieliski Prize.

Ida Fink 

Born in 1921 in Zbaraz (currently in the Ukraine), Ida Fink studied at the Lwow Conservatory. She spent the years 1941-42 in the ghetto and survived after escaping to the "Aryan side." She has lived in…...

Michal Witkowski 

Born in 1975, Michal Witkowski is a writer living in Wroclaw, Poland. His debut Copyright was published in 2001. He is also the author of Lubiewo, a novel on gay subculture which catapulted Witkowski into…...

Zbigniew Mentzel 

Zbigniew Mentzel is a regular newspaper columnist and has published three books of short stories and articles on Polish culture. He is also editor of the collected papers of Poland's leading philosopher,…...

Marek Krajewski 

Polish writer Marek Krajewski is the author of a hugely successful quartet of crime novels centered on the city of Breslau, beginning with Death in Breslau. Krajewski is also a Classics scholar.

Zbigniew Herbert 

Zbigniew Herbert (1924 - 1998) is one of the central figures of post-war European poetry; the author of nine volumes of poetry and three collections of essays, he also wrote for stage and radio. He received…...

Tadeusz Różewicz 

Tadeusz Różewicz (b. 1921), a poet, playwright, fiction writer, and essayist, has been a prominent figure in modern Polish literature since his celebrated debut in 1947. His work has been translated…...

Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki 

Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (b. 1962) studied in Lublin and worked as a schoolteacher; he has published numerous books of poetry, among them a selected poems called Kamien Pelen Pokarmu (Stone Full of Nourishment)…...

Krystyna Milobedzka 

Krystyna Milobedzka (1932) is a poet and author of plays for children, as well as a scholar of children's theater. She has published ten volumes of poetry and has been awarded many of the poetry awards…...

Adam Wiedemann 

Adam Wiedemann (1967) is a poet, prose writer and music critic, as well as an editor of the Krakow-based monthly Studium. He has published five books of poetry; his most recent collection, Calypso, has…...

Marcin Swietlicki 

Marcin Swietlicki (1961) is the author of uncounted and infamous books of poetry. He lives in Krakow and collaborates with the musical group Swietliki.

Ryszard Krynicki 

Ryszard Krynicki, one of the most prominent poets of postwar Poland, was born in 1943 in Sankt Valentin, Austria, where his parents had been deported to a Nazi labor camp. In Poland in the 1960s he became…...

Janusz Szuber 

Janusz Szuber (1948) made a late poetic debut in 1995; he has published seventeen volumes of poetry, many of them in his home town of Sanok, as well as essays and columns. He has been the recipient of…...

Marcin Sendecki 

Marcin Sendecki (1967, Gdansk) is a poet and a managing editor for the weekly magazine Przekrój. He has published five books of poetry and co-edited the anthology-tribute to Raymond Chandler, The…...

Jacek Gutorow 

Jacek Gutorow (1970) is a poet, literary critic and translator. He is the author of three collections of poetry, as well as two books of essays. He has translated widely from American and English poetry,…...

Andrzej Sosnowski 

Andrzej Sosnowski (b.1959, Warsaw) is a poet, translator and essayist, as well a lecturer in American literature at Warsaw University and an editor at the monthly Literatura na Swiecie. He has published…...

Olga Tokarczuk 

Olga Tokarczuk (b. 1962) is one of the most popular contemporary writers in Poland. By training a psychologist, she is based in Wałbrzych. She has on multiple occasions won the Reader's Prize of the…...

Yankev Glatshteyn 

Yankev Glatshteyn (Jacob Glatstein), one of the most important Jewish poets of the twentieth century and a founder of Yiddish modernism, was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1896, and immigrated to New York…...

Stanisław Barańczak 

Stanisław Barańczak, professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University, is a poet, literary scholar, and translator who emigrated from Poland in 1981. He is the author of several books of poetry and…...

Adam Zagajewski 

Poet, novelist, and essayist Adam Zagajewski lives in Paris and Houston. He was born in Lwów in 1945 and first became well known as one of the leading poets of the Generation of '68' or…...

Bronisław Maj 

Born in 1953, Bronisław Maj is the author of seven volumes of poetry which have won him prestigious literary prizes, a reputation as one of the finest poets of his generation, and a place in many anthologies…...

Jerzy Pilch 

Jerzy Pilch has been called "the hope of young Polish prose" by Czeslaw Milosz. He is the author of several novels, including His Current Woman, translated by Bill Johnston. The recipient of the 2001 Nike…...

Dorota Masłowska 

The Polish literary sensation Dorota Masłowska (b. 1982) won the Polityka Prize and the Nike Prize for her debut novel, Wojny polsko-ruskiej pod flagą biało-czerwoną. She lives in Lublin.

Magdalena Tulli 

No one since the fall of Communism has created as much of a sensation in Central and Eastern European literature as Magdalena Tulli. Dreams and Stones (1995), her first novel, won Poland's prestigious…...

Krysztof Gawronkiewicz 

The Polish artist Krystof Gawronkiewicz was born in 1969. The draft version of Essence won the first European Comic Book Competition, hosted by the television company Arte and Glénat publishing,…...

Witold Gombrowicz 

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-69) is widely regarded as one of the most groundbreaking and challenging of late European modernists. A native of central Poland and a close friend of Bruno Schulz and Stanislaw…...

Marek Huberath 

Marek Huberath is a major award-winning science fiction/fantasy writer in Poland. His themes are philosophical and moral/religious: how people become beasts or remain human in extreme circumstances. The…...

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