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LondonLondon 2014 RIGHTS DEPARTMENT: Magdalena Nowicka Foreign Rights Manager [email protected] tel. +48 12 61 99 548 About us Wydawnictwo Znak Znak Publishing House ul. Kościuszki 37 30-105 Kraków, Poland www.znak-rights.pl www.znak.com.pl Established in 1959 Znak Vargas Llosa. We also the most demanding Publishers ranks as one publish such authors as readers. Major topics of the greatest Polish Margaret Atwood, John and leading names, publishing houses. Banville, Zadie Smith, wide-ranging scope and More than just a Ryszard Kapuściński, profound analysis. publishing house, Znak Wiesław Myśliwski, Znak Literanova has provided for more Paweł Huelle, Seamus is focused on 2 than 50 years a forum for Heaney, Ian McEwan and contemporary voices, important debate and Malcolm Gladwell. In which speak of current thus it made a major 2012 Znak has become events and trends. contribution to Polish the Polish publisher Znak Emotikon is home culture. of J.K. Rowling’s The to a number of the best We publish over 250 Casual Vacancy. children’s titles as Le Petit new titles per year, in In order to better Nicolas by R. Goscinny the past three years our communicate with and JJ. Sempé and The yearly sales reached our readers, in 2010 House of Secrets by Chris nearly 9 million copies. we established four Columbus and Ned Our titles were imprints: ZNAK, Znak Vizzini. translated into more Horizon, Znak Literanova We see the future in than 15 languages and Znak Emotikon. the light of our basic and sold in more than ZNAK provides a unique ideas and our past and 20 countries. combination of tradition consequently we look Our list includes Nobel and change in producing for ways to further Prize winners like books that deserve strengthen our position Wisława Szymborska, classic status. as publisher of the Czesław Miłosz, Znak Horizon provides best and the most J.M. Coetzee, Joseph thoroughly rewarding stimulating books Brodsky or Mario material to satisfy in Poland. http://www.znak-rights.com Contents 9 Wiesław Myśliwski 29 Jacek Hugo-Bader 40 Wojciech Jagielski 52 Julita Bator The Final Hand A Long Film About Love: Towers of Stone Exchange Chemicals For 10 Wiesław Myśliwski Return to Broad Peak 40 Naval Food A Treatise on Shelling 29 Władysław Bartoszewski Survive Belize 53 Piotr Milewski Beans Righteous Among 41 Krzysztof Miller The Trans-Siberian: 11 Wiesław Myśliwski Nations: How Poles 13 Wars and One. The By Railway Across Russia Stone Upon Stone Helped the Jews 1939- True Story of a War and Beyond 11 Wiesław Myśliwski 1945 Correspondent 53 Aleksandra Gumowska Horizon 30 Władysław Bartoszewski 42 Travels with Ryszard Sex, Betel and Magic: The 14 Paweł Huelle My Auschwitz Kapuściński Sexual Life of Savages One Sing Gardens 30 Władysław Bartoszewski Thirteen Translators Tell Hundred Years On 15 Paweł Huelle Life is Hard But Not Dull: Their Stories 54 Róża Thun Who Was David Weiser? From the Memoirs of 42 Travels with Ryszard Róża 15 Paweł Huelle a Pole in the Twentieth Kapuściński, part 2. 56 Andrzej Maleszka Cold Sea Tales Century The Tales of Fourteen The Magic Tree 16 Paweł Huelle 31 Władysław Bartoszewski Translators The Magic Tree. Tale 1. The The Last Supper The War Years 1939-1945 43 Ryszard Kapuściński Red Chair 16 Paweł Huelle 31 Władysław Bartoszewski A Reporter: Self-portrait The Magic Tree. Tale 2. The Castorp 1859 Days of Warsaw 43 Ryszard Kapuściński Mystery of a Bridge 17 Paweł Huelle 32 Andrzej Friszke The Rapid Current of The Magic Tree. Tale 3. The Mercedes-Benz The Solidarity Revolution History. Giant 19 Marek Krajewski 33 Sylwia Frołów Writings on the 20th and The Magic Tree. Tale 4. The In the Abyss of Darkness Dzierżyński: Love and 21st Centuries Duel 20 Marek Krajewski Revolution 44 Beata Nowacka, The Magic Tree. Tale 5. The The Rivers of Hades 33 Magdalena Zygmunt Ziątek Game 20 Marek Krajewski Grzebałkowska Ryszard Kapuściński. 59 Aleksandra Mizielińska, The Erinyes The Beksińskis: A Double A Writer’s Biography Daniel Mizieliński 21 Marek Krajewski Portrait 45 Małgorzata Szejnert We are here. Cosmic Charon’s Numbers 34 Andrzej Franaszek Home of the Turtle. expeditions, visions and 23 Antoni Libera Miłosz. A Biography Zanzibar experiments Madame 35 Anna Bikont, 46 Małgorzata Szejnert 59 Aleksandra Mizielińska, 23 Antoni Libera Joanna Szczęsna Gateway Island Daniel Mizieliński Godot and His Shadow Dusty Keepsakes: The 46 Małgorzata Szejnert Eating: A Do-It-Yourself 24 Marcin Bruczkowski Biography of Wisława The Black Garden Guide An Imperfect Szymborska 48 Andrzej Szczeklik 60 Wojciech Bonowicz Homecoming 36 Grażyna Jagielska Immortality Stories by Nutty Teddy 24 Marcin Bruczkowski Love Made of Stone 49 Andrzej Szczeklik 61 Joanna Olech Sleepless in Tokyo 36 Grażyna Jagielska Catharsis Pompom on Holiday 25 Marcin Bruczkowski Angels Eat Three Times 50 Andrzej Szczeklik 62 Joanna Olech Lost in Tokyo A Day Kore Pompom’s Children 25 Marcin Ciszewski 38 Wojciech Jagielski 50 Andrzej Szczeklik 62 Joanna Olech The Cop The Trumpeter from Professor Szczeklik Pompom the Sink Dragon 26 Marcin Ciszewski Tembisa in conversation with The Wind 38 Wojciech Jagielski Jerzy Illg 27 Hanna Samson A Good Place to Die 52 Piotr Sztompka Life After a Man 39 Wojciech Jagielski Sociology. The Analysis 27 Izabela Sowa Scorching the Grass of Society A Refuge http://www.znak-rights.comhttp://www.znak-rights.com 4 http://www.znak-rights.com Featured titles FICTION Wiesław Myśliwski The Final Hand Paweł Huelle Sing Gardens Marek Krajewski In the Abbys of Darkness NON-FICTION Jacek Hugo-Bader A Long Film About Love: Return to Broad Peak Wojciech Jagielski The Trumpeter from Tembisa Wojciech Jagielski A Good Place to Die Grażyna Jagielska Angels Eat Three Times A Day Władysław Bartoszewski My Auschwitz 5 Władysław Bartoszewski Righteous Among Nations: How Poles Helped the Jews 1939-1945 Andrzej Friszke The Solidarity Revolution Sylwia Frołow Dzierżyński: Love and Revolution Magdalena Grzebałkowska The Beksińskis: A Double Portrait CHILDREN’S Andrzej Maleszka The Magic Tree. Tale 5. The Game Joanna Olech Pompom on Holiday http://www.znak-rights.com Authors list FICTION POETRY Malcolm Gladwell Richard Swinburne Jan T. Gross Xavier Tilliette Margaret Atwood Joseph Brodsky Magdalena Grzebałkowska Józef Tischner John Banville Robert Hass Richard Hammond Claude Tresmontant Heinrich Böll Seamus Heaney Jacek Hugo-Bader Bernhard Welte Candace Bushnell Edward Hirsch Grażyna Jagielska Albert Camus Jane Hirshfi eld Wojciech Jagielski THEOLOGY Angela Carter Yusef Komunyakaa Ryszard Kapuściński J.M. Coetzee Denise Levertov Ian Kershaw Yves Congar Joseph Conrad Czesław Miłosz Martin Lindstrom Louis Dupré Junot Díaz Anna Piwkowska Krzysztof Miller Paul Evdokimov Fyodor Dostoyevsky Tomasz Różycki Anna Politkovskaya Romano Guardini Karin Fossum Wisława Szymborska Mary Roach René Laurentin Bohumil Hrabal Karol Wojtyła Robert Service Henri de Lubac Paweł Huelle Ko Un E. Benjamin Skinner Richard Niebuhr Ismail Kadare Adam Zagajewski Timothy Snyder Pope Benedict XVI Marek Krajewski Andrzej Szczeklik Pope Francis Kazimierz Kutz NON-FICTION Joanna Szczęsna Pope John Paul II James Joyce Małgorzata Szejnert Joseph Ratzinger Jhumpa Lahiri Chris Anderson Piotr Sztompka Max Thurian Antoni Libera Julita Bator Jürgen Thorwald Ian McEwan Timothy Garton Ash Andrzej Wajda CHILDREN’S BOOKS Mario Vargas Llosa Stanisław Barańczak Richard Lourie Władysław Bartoszewski PHILOSOPHY J.M. Barrie Yann Martel Neal Bascomb F.C. Boyce Eduardo Mendoza Antony Beevor Saint Thomas Aquinas Christianna Brand Zbigniew Mentzel Samuel Beckett Saint Augustine Chris Columbus Wiesław Myśliwski Anna Bikont Henri Bergson Michael Ende Joyce Carol Oates Joseph Brodsky Martin Buber Ted Hughes Victor Pelevin Józef Czapski Etienne Gilson John Green J.K. Rowling Norman Davies Georg W. F. Hegel Anthony Horowitz Ernesto Sabato Umberto Eco Martin Heidegger Janosch Lydie Salvayre Anne Fadiman Michał Heller Barry Jonsberg Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Andrzej Franaszek Karl Jaspers Paul McCartney Zadie Smith Anne Frank Immanuel Kant Geraldine McCaughrean Koji Suzuki Andrzej Friszke Leszek Kołakowski Philip Pullman Tatyana Tolstaya Sylwia Frołow Emmanuel Lévinas Sempé & Goscinny Dubravka Ugresič Francis Fukuyama Krzysztof Michalski Alex Shearer Jeanette Winterson Atul Gawande Karl Popper Francesca Simon Virginia Woolf Jan Garavaglia Franz Rosenzweig Dubravka Ugresič Barbara Skarga Ned Vizzini http://www.znak-rights.com FictionFiction7 Wojciech Druszcz/REPORTER Wojciech 8 About the author: Wiesław Myśliwski is the only writer to have twice received the Nike Literary Prize, Poland’s most prestigious literary award. His novels and plays are usually discussed in the context of “peasant literature”, dealing with the problems of the identities of villages and their inhabitants in times of historical change. However, his work transcends this literary category thanks to its philosophical and anthropological importance. His books have been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Bulgarian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Serbian. Wiesław Myśliwski The Final Hand The long awaited new novel by the master of Polish fi ction. About : also becomes an excuse and necessity. Masterfully for ruminating on his constructed, this is The Final Hand is the new relationships with women, a novel we want to read literary masterpiece we his short-lived affairs, and and re-read, to discover have been looking forward fi nally his most signifi cant new dimensions and to for several years now. emotional experience,