The first time I met Lisa I knew she was going to help me become a very different sort of man. Knowing this felt like a summer holiday. It made me relax – and I am quite a tense
Klementyna Suchanow’s biography of Witold Gombrowicz, one of Poland’s leading twentieth-century writers, is about to appear with the independent publishing house Czarne. Having
At last – eighty years since it was first published in Poland; after two film adaptations; and having taken up permanent residence on Polish secondary-school reading lists – Zo
Weronika Murek’s debut collection of short stories is wonderfully fresh and entertaining, and in Poland it has duly been shortlisted for several literary prizes and attracted muc
In A Treatise on Shelling Beans, the 2007 novel with which Wiesław Myśliwski won the Nike literary prize for an unprecedented second time (and which appeared in 2013 in a beautif
A friend came to see me in a dream. From far away. And I asked in the dream: ‘Did you come by photograph or train?’” – A Seventh Man by John Berger. It seems to me that art
Can bison read books? Well they can if they are Polish bison! And especially when they’ve been brought to life by star illustrator and Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell. These
