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#RivetingReviews: THE GREAT PLAN B by Justyna Bargielska

Justyna Bargielska has published eight poetry collections in her native Poland, as well as two fiction books and two children’s books. She has won some of the most prestigious literary prizes in Polan…

Translating Rafał Gawin for Talking Transformations

Motivated by Brexit, Talking Transformations first project focuses on the UK and the countries most important to EU migration into and from the UK: respectively Romania & Poland and France & S…

Mirka Szychowiak’s mircrofiction in ASYMPTOTE

Mirka Szychowiak‘s microfiction I’m Scared of Those Dots has just been published in Asymptote’s Translation Tuesday! You can find it here. If you read Polish, you can find he origina…

Irit Amiel’s LIFE. A TEMPORARY TITLE coming out in September

Irit Amiel’s autobiography in my translation is published by Vallentine Mitchell on 14 September 2017. You can pre-order the book directly from the publisher. More information here.…

Radosław Wiśniewski’s poetry in York Literary Review

I have translated a handful of poems by Radosław Wiśniewski and they have been published in the wonderful York Literary Review. What do you think?…

Review of Natalia Fiedorczuk’s “Jak pokochać centra handlowe” in Visegrad Insight

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…

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…

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…

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…

* (na gołym stole), * (jedna połówka)

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…

#RivetingReviews: QUIET FLOWS THE UNA by Faruk Šehić

Quiet Flows the Una, by Faruk Šehić, Translated by Will Firth, Published by Istros Books (2016), Reviewed by Anna Blasiak The title of Faruk Šehić’s novel is a reference to the Nobel Prize winn…

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