Znak Publishers Rights Catalogue Autumn 2018 Znak Publishers Rights Catalogue Autumn 2018 About ZNAK Established in 1959, ZNAK ranks as one of the most important Polish publishing houses. More than just a publishing house, for over 50 years ZNAK has provided a forum for important debate and has thus made a major contribution to Polish culture. ZNAK publishes about 300 new titles per year, and in the past three years our an- nual sales have reached nearly 9 million copies. Our titles have been translated into more than 15 languages and sold in more than 20 countries. Our portfolio includes Nobel Prize winners: Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz, J.M. Coetzee, Joseph Brodsky, Mario Vargas Llosa and Patrick Modiano. We also publish such authors as Zadie Smith, Seamus Heaney, Ryszard Kapuściński, Wiesław Myśliwski, Paweł Huelle, Seamus Heaney, Ian McEwan, Malcolm Gladwell, J.K. Rowling, Lauren Groff, Donna Tartt, Lawrence Osborne, Katherine Boo, Andrew Miller, Hanif Kureshi, Jung Chang and Joan Didion. In order to better communicate with our readers, we established four imprints in 2010: ZNAK, Znak Horyzont, Znak Literanova and Znak Emotikon. ZNAK provides a unique combination of tradition and change, producing books that deserve the sta- tus of classics. Znak Horyzont provides thoroughly rewarding material to satisfy the most demanding readers, featuring major topics and leading names, wide-ranging scope and profound analysis. Znak Literanova is focused on contemporary voices dis- cussing current events and trends. Znak Emotikon is home to a number of the best children’s titles, such as Le Petit Nicolas by R. Goscinny and J-J. Sempé and The House of Secrets by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini. We see the future in the light of our fundamental ideals and our past, and con- sequently we are always looking for ways to further strengthen our position as the publisher of the best and the most stimulating books in Poland. Contact Ewa Bolińska-Gostkowska Foreign Rights Manager/Senior editor, ZNAK Literanova Wydawnictwo Znak ul. Kościuszki 37, 30-105 Kraków tel. (0-12) 61-99-524, fax (0-12) 61-99-502 [email protected] www.wydawnictwoznak.pl 1 Contents Fiction Non-fiction 5 Wiesław Myśliwski 16 Andrzej Franaszek Needle’s Eye – ZNAK Herbert. A Biography – ZNAK 6 Żanna Słoniowska Miłosz. A Biography – ZNAK The House with the Stained-Glass Window 17 Michał Rusinek – ZNAK Literanova Nothing Usual: About Wisława Szymborska – ZNAK 6 Jacek Dehnel 18 Małgorzata Szejnert Krivoklat – ZNAK Literanova The Isle of Snakes – ZNAK 7 Maryla Szymiczkowa Building Mountains: Stories from the Polesie Region Mrs Mohr Goes Missing – ZNAK Literanova – ZNAK The Torn Curtain – ZNAK Literanova 19 Wojciech Jagielski A Séance at the Egyptian House – ZNAK Literanova East of the West – ZNAK 8 Kornel Filipowicz All Lara’s Wars – ZNAK A Provincial Affair and Other Stories – ZNAK 20 Magdalena Grzebałkowska My Dear Proud Province – ZNAK Komeda. The Private Life of Jazz – ZNAK 9 Paweł Huelle 21 Maria Wilczek-Krupa Sing Gardens – ZNAK Górecki. Genius and Obstinacy – ZNAK 10 Michal Witkowski 21 Marek Górlikowski Wipeville – ZNAK Literanova The Nobel Prize Winner of Nowolipki. Józef Rotblat’s War Fynf und Cfancyś – ZNAK Literanova for Peace – ZNAK 11 Mateusz Janiszewski 22 Ewa Żarska Orthodromy – ZNAK Literanova Hunter. The Case of Mariusz Trynkiewicz 11 Anna Cieplak – ZNAK Literanova Zero-Plus Years – ZNAK Literanova 22 Bartek Dobroch 12 Magdalena Stachula Hajzer: The Road of the Elephant – ZNAK The Perfect One – ZNAK Literanova 23 Mariusz Sepioło The Third One – ZNAK Literanova Nanga Dream. The Story of Tomek Mackiewicz - ZNAK Trapped – ZNAK Literanova 23 Edyta Stępczak 13 Marek Krajewski In Nepal a Burqa is Called Sari – ZNAK Literanova Mock. The Duel - ZNAK 24 Ms Groke 13 Katarzyna Michalak The Great Life Hacker, Or how to be happy doing nothing Windfall – ZNAK Literanova – ZNAK Literanova 14 Dorota Gąsiorowska 24 Ms and Mr Groke The Girl from the Hat Shop – ZNAK Literanova The Great Life Hacker for Couples, Or how to stay together 14 Anna Ficner-Ogonowska and avoid bloodshed – ZNAK Literanova A Crumb – ZNAK 25 Julita Bator 14 Magdalena Kordel Swap Chemicals for Food – ZNAK Forty-Eight Weeks – ZNAK Swap Chemicals for Energy. Health and Strength to Go – ZNAK 2 Religion, History, Philosophy, Social Science Books for Children 27 Józef Czapski 34 Andrzej Maleszka The Inhuman Land. New Edition – ZNAK The Magic Tree – ZNAK Emotikon 27 Michał Wójcik Heroes of the Magic Tree. The Kidnapping Treblinka 43. Rebellion in the Death Factory – ZNAK Emotikon – ZNAK Literanova 35 Renata Kijowska 28 Anna Herbich Jack the Bear: Stories from the Bear’s Lair Girls of the Warsaw Rising ‘44 – ZNAK Horyzont – ZNAK Emotikon Girls of Volhynia – ZNAK Horyzont 35 Dorota Kassjanowicz 29 Kacper Śledziński Three Two One, Sleeping is Fun – ZNAK Emotikon Secret Service. Intelligence War in the Second Polish 36 Michał Rusinek Republic – ZNAK Horyzont Kefir in Cairo – ZNAK Emotikon The Cursed Army: The Odyssey of General Anders’ 36 Beata Sadowska Troops – ZNAK Horyzont Momo Doesn’t Like Travelling – ZNAK Emotikon 30 Wojciech Königsberg 37 Szymon Radzimierski AK 75. The Home Army’s Most Daring Operations The Diary of an Adventure Hunter. Ethiopia: At the Feet – ZNAK Horyzont of the Fire Mountain – ZNAK Emotikon 30 Marek Łuszczyna 37 Marek Kamiński, Katarzyna Stachowicz-Gacek Small Crime. Polish Concentration Camps Marek and the Panther Skull – ZNAK Emotikon – ZNAK Horyzont 38 Leszek Kołakowski, Paweł Pawlak 31 Ewa K. Czaczkowska 13 Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia for the Big and Little Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message – ZNAK 38 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Pope Who Believed – ZNAK The Little Prince – ZNAK Emotikon 32 Natalia Budzyńska 39 Marcin Prokop Brother Albert. A Biography – ZNAK Brave Boys – ZNAK Emotikon 32 Piotr Sztompka 39 Cecylia Malik Social Capital – ZNAK Horyzont Girls in the Trees – ZNAK Emotikon 40 Anna Dziewit-Meller Ladies, Chicks, Girls: History Wears a Skirt – ZNAK Emotikon Ladies, Chicks, Girls: Adventure Wears a Skirt – ZNAK Emotikon 3 Fiction Wiesław Myśliwski Needle’s Eye About the book: Praise for Stone Upon Stone: A gripping novel that asks fundamental questions about Like a more agrarian Beckett, a less gothic Faulkner, a slightly human existence. warmer Laxness... Richly textured and wonderfully evocative... The story begins with an enigmatic meeting between two Undeniably original. men on a steep stairway leading to a “wild old green valley,” in – Publishers Weekly a defile known as the Needle’s Eye. A tragic incident triggers the action. Who are these men and what is their relationship? Pietruszka, with winning candor, narrates his life story Who is the mysterious girl in the photograph that one of them in a stream of meandering and sometimes overlapping anec- keeps on him? dotes that chronicle the modernization of rural Poland and In this masterfully constructed book nothing happens by celebrate the persistence of desire. – The New Yorker chance; each scene has its significance, like a step on a stairway. Gradually we learn the story of the central character: his child- Stone Upon Stone so immerses us in this world that we can hood in a small town during the war, his youth spent under sense, almost hear, the cadences Szymek speaks of. And when communism, and finally old age in present-day Poland. We’re he says, “The whole world is one big language,” we believe it. with him in his family home, on walks with the girl, in board- We cup our ears to listen. ing houses, rented apartments; we see him as a schoolboy, – Chris Dombrowski, Orion Magazine a college student, and finally as a history teacher. From time to time we go back with him to visit his parents, with whom Praise for A Treatise on Shelling Beans: he is close, painfully watching them growing old and moving This novel from Myśliwski describes an unremarkable life “toward silence.” History leaves its stamp on the lives of the in exhaustive detail; the result is about as exciting as its title protagonists, including on those parts that remain unspoken. implies. – Publishers Weekly Release date: October 2018 Rights available: World Newcomers to Myśliwski should prepare themselves for Translation sample in English available a unique voice, intriguing characters and page after page of wily but thoughtful prose. – Malcolm Forbes, Star Tribune A new novel by the master of Polish prose About the Author: Selected awards: Wiesław Myśliwski has twice received the Nike Literary Award, • Nike Literary Award (1997 and 2007) Poland’s most prestigious literary distinction. His novels and plays • Gdynia Literary Prize (2007) are usually discussed in the context of “peasant literature”, • Grand Prix Littéraire de Saint-Émilion (2011) dealing with the problems of the identities of villages and their • Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Prize (2012) inhabitants in times of historical change. However, his work • Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne (2011) transcends this literary category thanks to its philosophical – nomination and anthropological importance. His books have been trans- • Angelus Central-European Literature Award (2013) lated into English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, – nomination Russian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Bulgarian, Latvian, Lithu- anian and Serbian. 5 Żanna Słoniowska Jacek Dehnel The House with the Stained-Glass Window Krivoklat About the book: About the book: Four generations of women: the greatgrandmother, the A well-known patient of several mental hospitals, Krivoklat grandmother, the daughter and the granddaughter, reside is a serial vandal who has targeted some of the most famous in a Lviv house. artworks in the best European museums. Lviv is a city at the crossroads of cultures and nationalities, The Austrian press have even nicknamed him “Acid Vandal”. a city of falling balconies, ornate building façades and vandali- He is still planning his most spectacular attack… Dehnel’s new zed Lenin statues. The men are dead or missing and now the novel is a pastiche of Thomas Bernhard’s anti middle class.