The below is what Ursula Phillips, the translator of Jacek Dukaj’s Ice, wrote for the publisher of the book, Head of Zeus/Bloomsbury. In her piece, Ursula explains the proces
Author Jacek Dukaj will discuss his novel Ice in this in-conversation event with the book’s translator Ursula Phillips, chaired by author and professor&n
This month I am handing over the reins of The Polka to Ursula Phillips, a wonderful and very accomplished translator of Polish literature and a big advocate of Polish women writers
The Bonnet is the first prose work by the award-winning Slovak poet Katarína Kucbelová. Described in the publisher’s blurb as ‘literary reportage’, its poetic and psy
Set in the village of Lipce in the Russian Partition area of Poland in the 1880s, The Peasants is no pastoral idyll, but a saga of poverty and hardship, betrayal and jealousy, goss
Maciek Bielawski is a new name to watch in Polish literature. His debut in his home country was the autobiographical novel Twarde Parapety (‘Hard Windowsills’) (2016), which de
Many literary masterpieces published during Poland’s twenty years of independence between the world wars (1919–1939) remain untranslated into English and largely unknown to aud
Warsaw 1937. Jakub Szapiro, a Jewish thug and champion boxer, the same age as the century, is the eponymous ‘king’ of Szczepan Twardoch’s novel, although he comes into his ki
Originally published in 1961 in ‘Peoples’ Poland’ and now translated for the first time into English, The Memoir of an Anti-Hero describes a nameless fictional narrator’s c
The Night Circus and Other Stories is the second work by Uršuľa Kovalyk to appear in English, following her novel The Equestrienne (2016). The fifteen stories fuse tragedy and ab
