Warsaw 1937. Jakub Szapiro, a Jewish thug and champion boxer, the same age as the century, is the eponymous ‘king’…
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Originally published in 1961 in ‘Peoples’ Poland’ and now translated for the first time into English, The Memoir of an…
The Night Circus and Other Stories is the second work by Uršuľa Kovalyk to appear in English, following her novel…
The Boarding House (published as ‘Pensjonat’in Poland in 2009) is the debut novel by Piotr Paziński – editor-in-chief of Midrasz,…
Niviaq Korneliussen has made a dramatic entry into Nordic fiction. Far removed from criminal noir yet possessing something of the…
Ummulbanu Asadullayeva (1905–1992), writing in French under the penname of Banine, was the granddaughter of Azerbaijani oil barons – former…
This collection of stories – strictly speaking essays – by contemporary Belarusian poet and journalist Tania Skarynkina depicts the day-to-day…
The Romance of Teresa Hennert (1924) is Nałkowska’s critique of the Polish interwar state highly relevant to world politics today.…
Nalkowska’s Boundary (1935) – passion, ambition, politics and betrayal: crossing the line in 1920s Poland. By Nicky Harman Boundary by…
Scattering the Dark is a magnificent collection of 20th– and 21st-century poetry by Polish women in translation, edited by Karen…
Love Clarissa? Then try Maria Wirtemberska’s epistolary intrigue Malvina, or the Heart’s Intuition (1816). By Ursula Phillips Malvina, or the…
Orzeszkowa’s On the Niemen (1888) in Michelle Granas’s translation superbly catches the atmosphere of partition and insurrection. By Ursula Phillips…
