Visegrad Insight (issue 1[10] 2017) has published my review of Natalia Fiedorczuk’s Jak pokochać centra handlowe (“How to Fall in Love with Shopping Malls”). Thank you to Julia Sherw…
‘Hummingbirds Have Black Hearts’ in “On Life’s Path. Contemporary Writers of Poland” edited by Danuta Blaszak and Anna Maria Mickiewicz
My first short story or rather flash fiction in English has just appeared in the collection put together by Danuta Blaszak and Anna Maria Mickiewicz. The book is called On Life’s Path and is par…
Nominacja do Dużego Formatu!
Cóż tu więcej mówić? Znalazłam się wśród piątki szczęśliwców nominowanych w V Ogólnopolskim Konkursie na Tomik Poetycki Dużego Formatu w kategorii “Przed debiutem”. Po prostu radość i już.…
Great Western
Published in / Opublikowane w: Babiniec Literacki Date of publication / Data publikacji: 2/2017 Czasami, gdy w nocy obudzi mnie łoskot pociągu za oknem zaczynam się nagle zapuszczać w to miasto. Kie…
#RivetingReviews: Anna Blasiak reviews NIEWAŻKOŚĆ by Julia Fiedorczuk
Julia Fiedorczuk, ELNet’s recent guest at one of our Euro Stars events, is known principally as a poet and a critic who popularised the idea of ecopoetry. She has published five collections of poems i…
Mirka Szychowiak’s poetry in B O D Y Literature
The wonderful B O D Y Literature has just published a set of Mirka Szychowiak‘s poems translated by yours truly. So the poems now join two short stories by Mirka published by B O D Y earlier (th…
British Council First Monday Blog: Polish Literature Across Borders
Poland is Market Focus at The London Book Fair 2017. On this occasion British Council has commissioned a series of blogs and other texts focusing on Polish literature. Today was my turn. I decided to …
Sheffield, here we come!
Between Wor(l)ds. An evening of poetry with Maria Jastrzębska and Anna Blasiak 16 February, 7pm, Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 1XZ Behind a curtain of leaves, behind the…
3 ulubione wiersze na ArtPubKultura
Małgorzata Południak zaprosiła mnie do podzielenia się swoimi trzema ulubionymi. Co też uczyniłam i teraz można sobie poczytać tutaj.…
A taster of Kaja Malanowska’s crime novel Fog on Drunken Boat
Drunken Boat has just published a special folio devoted to crime/noir fiction written by women. The guest editor of the folio is the wonderful Rachel Hildebrandt, translator and founder of Weyward Sis…
Polski NIEDŹWIEDŹ POLARNY Jenni Desmond już w przyszłym tygodniu!
W przyszłym tygodniu wychodzi po polsku kolejna po “Płetwalu błękitnym” książka Jenni Desmond o gatunkach zagrożonych. Tym razem jest to opowieść o “Niedźwiedziu polarnym” R…
Maria Jastrzębska Cedry z Walpole Park Poland Small Tour 2016
Od 18 listopada do 8 grudnia 2016 roku Maria Jastrzębska ponownie gości w Polsce z wierszami z tomu Cedry z Walpole Park (w tłumaczeniach Anny Błasiak, Pawła Gawrońskiego i Wioletty Grzegorzewskiej). …
10 Books by Polish Women Writers We’d Like to See Translated
Polish books in translation? It takes some effort to find them in bookshops and even more effort to read about them in the review sections of newspapers and magazines, or to find them in public librar…
Często się gubię między językami
6 odcinek cyklu wywiadów Wioletty Grzegorzewskiej zatytułowanego “Wyjechały – rozmowa z Anną Błasiak. „Wyjechały” to nawiązujący swym tytułem i zawartością do Wyjechali, zbioru czterech „wygnańc…
Stories of Each Other: Do We Care?
It was a day before the EU referendum when Free Word Centre held an evening called Stories of Each Other: Do We Care? In the charged pre-referendum atmosphere the wonderful people of FWC decided to in…
#RivetingReviews: THE ANGELS DIE by Yasmina Khadra
We meet the protagonist and narrator of Yasmina Khadra’s The Angels Die just before his execution. Turambo is an Algerian Arab living under French colonial rule in the 1920s. He lived in stark poverty…
#RivetingReviews: LULLABY FOR A HANGED MAN by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki
The Polish writer Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki spent several years in Iceland before moving to his current home of Austria. His Lullaby for a Hanged Man is partly his own story and partly that of two m…
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Published in / Opublikowane w: Nowy BregArt Date of publication / Data publikacji: 7/2016 *** Na gołym stole butelka sardyńskiego wina na prezent, papieros w popielniczce, niedopita kawa. Na gołym sto…