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Anna Brzezińska 8 The Daughters of Wawel Castle A Tale of the Princesses of the Jagiellonian Dynasty 10 Water through a Sieve Anna Cieplak 14 Fade Away Jacek Dehnel 18 But With Our Dead Monika Drzazgowska 22 Cicuta Anna Dziewit-Meller 26 All Because Of One Lucifer Julia Fiedorczuk 30 Under the Sun Maciej Hen 36 Deutsch for the Intermediate Learners Liliana Hermetz 40 Madame Villeman Ignacy Karpowicz 44 Sonya 46 Love

CONTENTS 48 Softly, Hush Mikołaj Łoziński 52 Reisefieber 54 The Book 56 Stramer Andrzej Muszyński 60 Without. The Ballad of Joanna and Władek from Jurassic Valley Robert Nowakowski 64 The Homeland of Apples Tomasz Rożycki 68 Iyas Łukasz Staniszewski 72 Little Horrors 136 132 130 126 122 120 118 114 110 106 102 100 96 92 88 84 82 80 78 76 NON-FICTION

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The Kingdom The Angelika Kuźniak Angelika Biography Józef Beck. JanickiKamil Biography Lem. Janusz Leon Wiśniewski Stories fromStories the Forest inthe Białowieża. Whispers The King The Szczepan Twardoch Agnieszka Gajewska Agnieszka History with anObsession Obsession, of an Poland-Russia: The History Sławomir Leśniewski Sorochka The Wojciech Harpula Chwalba, Andrzej Were It If As Not Everest… Marek Kornat, Wołos Mariusz ‑ Mountaineer Halina Krüger Today. ATale the Himalayan About ThereHalina. are No LikeWomen Her The Lion Who Cried: Sobieski John III Cried: Who LionThe The Story of Wanda Rutkiewicz Story The Wanda. A Tale Life of and Death. Leszek Cichy,Leszek Trybalski Piotr Extraordinary WomenItalian Make the Ordinary and How Stilettos: Smarts Sass, Anna JankoAnna LadiesWładysławof II TheJagiełło Polishof History Tracks. Versions Alternative Changing Gabriella Contestabile We Love It Call Anna Kamińska Anna Annihilation TheSmall Syrokomska Non finito Non ­ POETRY 176 174 170 166 162 160 156 152 150 146 144 142 140 188 184 180

Operative Memory The Good Child The Good Where Did the Dog Come from? the Did Dog Where Kronhold Jerzy Ink Disappearing Dear Roma Ewa Lipska It’s My Lady Burning Dorota Sumińska Dorota InvitationAn to a Debate Not for Dummies. History About Piotr Trybalski Piotr Hope and Death and People, Animals Of Pain,Enough. Paweł Skawiński Gawryluk, Barbara BOOKS CHILDREN’S inSafeLove Mode Kozioł Urszula the Himalayas Who Invented The Man Omnipotent. Andrzej NowakAndrzej Abrahamerowa Anna of The Journal Inevitable. Roma Ligocka Dorota Sumińska Dorota and MrsOleś Róża Attackof the Last Ice The Warriors for All K2. It Giving The Girl in the Red CoatTheRed Girlinthe Anna JankoAnna A Guide for Young and Old The Tatra mountains. Nations 1721–1921. Odes and Geopolitics, Empire the Russian of Metamorphoses

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Tavares, Janusz Anderman, Anna Brzezińska, Madeleine Thien, Jürgen Thorwald, Elena Martyna Bunda, Anna Cieplak, Jacek Dehnel, POETS Varvello, Mika Waltari, Virginia Woolf, Jacek Dukaj, Anna Dziewit-Meller, Julia Julia Hartwig, Zbigniew Herbert, Urszula Hideo Yokoyama. Fiedorczuk, Jerzy Franczak, Sasza Hady, Kozioł, Jerzy Kronhold, Ewa Lipska, Maciej Hen, Liliana Hermetz, Kamil Janicki, Piotr Matywiecki, Jarosław Mikołajewski, Anna Janko, Ignacy Karpowicz, Włodzimierz Czesław Miłosz, Ewa E. Nowakowska, Kowalewski, Zbigniew Kruszyński, Mikołaj Halina Poświatowska, Tadeusz Różewicz, Anna Brzezińska (b. 1971) is a well respected writer and historian, three- times winner of Janusz A. Zajdel Award, a prestigious prize for Polish fantasy writers. She has written novels and short stories, has worked with Polityka and written pieces for Wysokie Obcasy Ekstra. Her book from 2017 is The Daughters of Wawel Castle. A Tale of the Princesses of the Jagiellonian Dynasty, a monumental novel about the Jagiellonian era, was critically acclaimed and became a bestseller. ANNA BRZEZIN SKA fot. Andrzej Banaś

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 6 [email protected] Keynote alliances, scandals, and palace intrigues. permanent, also transform. I have tried A brilliantly written history of the most Brzezińska tells us about history in a way to reconstruct, as faithfully and fully as important women of the Renaissance era in that should interest everyone – not for her possible, the world of the little Jagiellonian Poland. The combination of an action-packed the boring sermons or dry presentations princesses, growing up in very wide cultural novel with historical essays makes this book read of facts and dates. On the contrary, her panorama, among tales drawn from like the best of detective novels. depiction of the past is as interesting as the heritage of Antiquity, from the Bible, the finest adventure novel. The Daughters and from the emerging national culture, Selling Points of Wawel Castle is a history book written in and then to show how – given to husbands  The history of sixteenth-century Poland an experimental and innovative fashion, in the Reich, Hungary, and Sweden – they and Europe told from a totally new, female freely intertwining essayistic and fictional were instrumental in transmitting blood perspective. fragments. This allows us to discover a great and culture.  An innovative approach to writing about deal about the Renaissance epoch, while And no, I did not stop to wonder who this history – there are no boring tirades loaded with simultaneously being seduced by the magic book was for: I was writing about things dispensable facts, but there is a great deal of of these stories told by Brzezińska, an that I myself found interesting. But I also compact narrative. experienced author known for her ability wanted to show that social history is  One of Poland’s most recognized authors, to create vivid and multifaceted worlds. fascinating, and so I hope that it will be a three-time winner of the prestigious J. Zajdel But this is not all – perhaps the book’s appreciated by all those who hated that Award. most important asset is the female boring kaleidoscope of battles that school  The book not only acquaints readers with perspective taken by the author. Here we textbooks give us. the Jagiellonian epoch in an accessible way, but look at well-known figures and events from is a compelling read, with plenty of cloak-and- “You read this book with your heart in your Polish and European history from a totally dagger intrigue. throat, while savoring every word. There’s different perspective, and voice is given to  Gives voice to women in history, restoring them a sensuality that reminds us of Patrick extraordinarily important figures who have to their proper place; without them the history of Süskind’s Perfume, and epic mysticism and generally been passed over in silence. This Poland and Europe would be incomplete. thoughts that sometimes bring to mind is mandatory reading for all those who love Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob. Anna Description a bit of good political intrigue. Brzezińska’s novel is one of a kind. It is The Renaissance times meant not only The Author on Her Book very feminine. And full of that splendid, the marvelous flourishing of civilizations, arts, I wrote The Daughters of Wawel Castle vital, feminine wisdom you never find and cities. These were also times when noble to fill in the gaps of how we imagine in men…”. Magdalena Nowacka-Goik, dynasties reigned in Europe – and among them the times of Sigismund – the golden Dziennik Zachodni the Jagiellonians, who ruled the largest territory age of the Polish­‑Lithuanian monarchy of the Old World. But where there are dynasties “The Daughters of Wawel Castle is rich, of the Jagiellonians – with a look at

ANNA BRZEZI N SKA THE DAUGHTERS OF WAWEL CASTLE OF THE PRINCESSES A TALE DYNASTY JAGIELLONIAN CÓRKI WAWELU KRÓLEWNACH OPOWIEŚĆ O JAGIELLOŃSKICH there must also be conspiracies, betrayals, secret sumptuous, perhaps more Baroque the women who were in the Royal Wawel than Renaissance in its portrayal of Castle: the royal wives and daughters, 16th‑century women, dour Jagiellonian FICTION as well as their court ladies, the wives princesses set against the declining golden date of publication: 2017 of noblemen and craftsmen, servants, era of the dynasty and Republic. Worth pages: 840 the dwarves, the harlots, and the midwives. examining closely, to delight in the whole Rights Sold: Lithuania (Mintis) This is why every chapter of the book picture or just stray details”. speaks of a different female experience – Roman Ochocki, katedra.nast.pl of childbirth, of post-partum, of mothers and nurturing small children, of rearing Target Market and educating girls, of handiwork as Lovers of historical novels. a childrearing tool, of marital ideals, of Fans of history, particularly of the popular 61,000 court dance, ceremonies, tournaments, sort. copies sold and many other aspects of women’s lives. Readers of non-fiction, and especially I wanted to show how certain biological biographies. facts, such as childbirth, are also social Lovers of “historical fantasy”. facts and have histories of their own, while institutions like the family, which seem

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 8 [email protected] 9 [email protected] Keynote passion? A harlot enjoying the pleasures of every turn. Much like her monumental A tale of a world full of cruelty, in which it life? A mysterious lover to the heir of these bestseller The Daughters of Wawel Castle, it is the word, and not magic, that is a young lands? remains surprisingly timely and modern”. woman’s greatest weapon. La Vecchia is crafty and strong, but her kulturawokolnas.pl greatest power is not magic – it is the ability Selling Points “In Water through a Sieve the reader finds to use words. She is always letting herself  The mistress of Polish fantasy and few historical facts, only tropes, sketches get carried away in confessions, leading adventure tales. of myths, outwardly realistic, but this her persecutors down the garden path. But  An intricately woven plot. is more a pop fantasy tale of the power is this enough to save her from the men  A fantastical world stylized on of the word. Anna Brzezińska uses who are consumed by a blood lust? Renaissance Europe. a beautiful, slightly stylized language, so  A tale of a woman who is strong and “In this fantastical land based on early- that the protagonist’s monologue cuts into bold, who opposes a repressive system on Renaissance Italy the protagonist, accused the reader, who is swallowed up by her her own. of witchcraft, not only seduces the holy narrative, consumed by all the ‘dragons,’  The author is Poland’s most important tribunal interrogating her, but the readers both real and metaphorical – the crooks, fantasy writer, the author of many as well. And she really does know how to rapists, accusers, and all of those base, bestsellers use words. You’ll read it compulsively… unprincipled women who slander her at For this Anna Brzezińska deserves a major every step. The reader is left to interpret Description nod – for creating a story about a witch the testimonies, becomes a witness to La Vecchia is thrown into a dungeon centred on a strong female protagonist, a complex game in which there are no easy and accused of heresy, witchcraft, and and for not glorifying the violence that is answers, no superfluous emotions, only the cruel murder of a monk. Is she guilty? used against her”. words and faith”. The Inquisitor believes she is, especially Justyna Suchecka, Książki. Magazyn do Wielki Buk considering the girl’s past and the family czytania she comes from. She was born in a small “What is this book like? Unusual, highland settlement, a place famous for “This is a multilayered novel about uncompromising, compelling, thought- extracting a mineral called dragon’s blood. the inquisition, the terror used against provoking, and shocking. Its peculiarity Her misfortune was that she was born those who dared to have beliefs that grabs your attention and refuses to let go, a bastard child. For bringing a misbegotten opposed the laws of the church. It is about because you cannot be sure how things child into the world, the girl’s mother is what the witch trials really were – a way will turn out. The words flow in a dense cast from the family home and exiled from of settling local and private animosities stream and it is easy to get carried away. the village society. She lived with her three grounded in envy, hatred, the desire for Apart from the inquisitors’ struggle children in the local inn. But who was she profit or revenge. (…) against the witches, there is also true

ANNA BRZEZI N SKA THROUGH WATER A SIEVE WODA NA SICIE truly? A village girl who succumbed to Anna Brzezińska’s style in this book is love, and the destructive effects of power incredible – it is a poetic deluge. The story and jealousy, which rules the world. FICTION flows freely, the motifs fluidly interweave, There is courage against weakness and date of publication: 2018 pictures flash before our eyes. These a whole range of human emotions. Highly pages: 368 pictures are sharp and dreary, full of blood, recommended!” rights sold: rape, dragons, red ore, plagues, and stark Ksiazkiweterze.pl landscapes. If I were to seek a comparison, Russia (AST) Target Market I would say it reminds me of the red­ Readers of ambitious women’s literature. ‑drenched sets of Peter Greenaway’s Baby Lovers of novels that combine history and of Macon. fantasy. Water through a Sieve is a book for all those who love the magic of words”. Monika Frenkiel, Newsweek

“Anna Brzezińska has created a brutal 8000 and ruthless world in which human copies sold life is worth less than a drop of magical vermilgio, and betrayal and death lurk at

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 10 [email protected] 11 [email protected] Anna Cieplak (b. 1988) is the most prominent writer of her generation and a social activist, particularly regarded for her longtime work with children and youth. Her debut novel about modern-day teenagers, Clean It Up (2016), won two of Poland’s the most esteemed prizes for emerging writers: the Conrad Award and the Gombrowicz Prize. Her next book, Zero-Plus Years (2017), was nominated for the Nike Award, the country’s top literary prize. Her prose is widely recognized as the most important voice of today’s thirty‑somethings. ANNA CIEPLAK fot. Joanna Nowicka fot. Joanna

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 12 [email protected] 13 [email protected] Keynote wide open – happiness was right there, all into the world, an uncertain and by no A generational novel about the beauty they had to do was reach out and grab it. means unambiguous social advancement, and bitterness of Europe, as experienced Poland had just joined the EU, the global increasing precarization, a change in by young Polish emigrants throughout economy was flourishing, and it seemed relationship patterns, and the generation the European Union. like if you knew some foreign languages of the young, which is already different and had a decent education you could from those that came before. Selling Points conquer the world. But soon enough they Kinga Dunin, Krytyka Polityczna  A multi-narrative novel about were brutally acquainted with reality. a generation of young Poles who’ve Target Market Overworked and underpaid, living six to emigrated to Western Europe in search of Readers of novels in translation. a flat in cramped, dilapidated buildings, a better life. Readers of ambitious contemporary and ever homesick – such experiences have  The first book that thoroughly and literature. left a lasting mark on this generation of uniquely summarizes Polish and Eastern People interested in the society and EU emigrants. Today, back in Poland and European experiences through the last culture of contemporary Eastern Europe. trying to figure out their lives as adults, twenty years of globalization. it’s none too easy: Polish provincial life  A portrait of the Western European was not especially cushy even before through run-down neighborhoods, cheap the pandemic. On top of everything, there apartments, and the lowest-paid jobs. are family issues. When the person closest  A brutal and honest story about to the protagonists suffers a stroke and the Poland of small towns and provincial becomes bedridden, these young adults communities. must redefine their values and return  The 2008 financial crisis from to the ties that bond them – otherwise, the perspective of low-paid immigrants. they’ll fall apart in a cold and hostile  Brilliant, sensitive, and honest world. language – a record of the real experiences of today’s thirty-somethings. Praise  The author is the most significant and Cieplak writes in such a way that we can widely awarded writer of her generation. slip into the hearts of her characters and feel their despair, while at the same Description time she’s able to tell the story without For the novel’s protagonists, modern-day removing all hope. thirty-somethings, life hasn’t turned out Justyna Sobolewska, Polityka how they once hoped it would. In the early

ANNA CIEPLAK FADE AWAY ROZPŁYWAJ SIĘ days of the 21st century, the world seemed Above all, it’s a current and very good story about the mental state of Upper FICTION Silesia after years of transformation, date of publication: 2021 horrendous restructuring, and constant pages: 320 doubt about what it means to be a region imprisoned with its language, culture, and society in a country that offers it a worse path for development than any of its other regions. Jarosław Czechowicz, Krytycznym okiem The book’s greatest strength seems to me its author’s skill for sharp, sociological observations of changes in society. Because this ‘fading away’ also marks the end of traditional mining families, the consequences of economic immigration or the possibility of fleeing

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 14 [email protected] 15 [email protected] Jacek Dehnel (b. 1980) is a popular and highly-respected Polish prose writer, poet, translator and painter. He is the author of many well-received novels, such as Doll (2006), Balzakiana (2008), Saturn (2011) and Mother Makryna (2014). He has won numerous awards: he received the prestigious Kościelski Foundation Award in 2005 for his debut poetry volume Parallel Lives. In 2007, he was awarded the Polityka Passport Award, and in 2009 the Silesian Laurel of Literature. He has been nominated twice for the Angelus Central European Literary Award, and five times for Poland’s most prestigious literary distinction – the Nike Award. In 2014, he was nominated for the Wisława Szymborska Poetry Award. He received the bronze Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture. He lives in Warsaw’s Powiśle district, which he often writes about. His husband is the translator and writer Piotr Tarczyński, with whom he co- writes a series of mystery novels under the pseudonym of Maryla Szymiczkowa. JACEK DEHNEL fot. Andrzej Banaś

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 16 [email protected] Keynote so eagerly invoke? In his latest novel, Our Dead does this in fine style, and above A political satire against the backdrop the excellent writer Jacek Dehnel takes all, with charm and a sense of humor”. of a zombie apocalypse by one of Poland’s us into an alternate Polish reality where Ryszard Kozik, Gazeta Wyborcza most popular writers. characters from the past return from “Jacek Dehnel has written a satirical, dark, their graves to spread respect for their Selling Points and highly depressing book. Those who, homeland around the world. The action  The author is very prominent in for a variety of reasons, will not be reading begins in Cracow, the former seat of the Polish public debate, regularly this book would probably recognize Polish kings, but the reader is quickly commenting on political events in social themselves in it. But with Our Dead is taken on a wild journey through the whole media and often stirring up controversy, a sparkling and dynamic tale of how Polish country, where mythology begins to but he also has a large group of fans and vices, idiosyncrasies, complexes, and mix with reality in a grotesque way. Will readers. dreams of greatness are crawling up out of Józef Piłsudski, the architect of pre-war  A novel by one of the most frequently the earth”. independence, manage to devour Vladimir read and discussed prose writers in Poland. Krytycznym okiem Putin’s brain? And will Władysław Anders,  A brilliant and funny satire on the hero of battles on the Italian front, “Dehnel’s book is an interesting and the political situation in Poland and convince the inhabitants of the Apennine convincing study of nationalism and its the region, in which hardliner nationalism Peninsula to join him? Dehnel’s novel impact on society. He shows himself to is mercilessly mocked. is much more than a satire on opaque be not only a keen observer, capable of  An original panorama of thoughts and nationalism, it is above all a journey interpreting the processes taking place in political trends shaping Polish reality in into the dark and complicated national the nation, but also a careful listener. In the 20th and 21st centuries. imagination. Its paths are tortuous, but his book, as in the work of Białoszewski or  A witty and originally-presented with such a guide we have nothing to fear. Masłowska, we can hear the language of pantheon of Polish national heroes. the street – with all its worries, anxieties,  A fast-paced and engaging adventure “This book has everything we have come to and hopes”. novel taking place in an alternate Polish love in Dehnel’s prose: beautiful language, Kto czyta, nie błądzi reality. motifs from cultural history, sophisticated irony, and a care for detail. “We can see that the author is having Description a great time with the plot, and also with For several years now, the political Polish literature teachers tells us that the language, which is elegant, but never situation in Poland and throughout Europe we cannot be both scared and amused overcooked, with a wealth of stylistic has been heading in a dangerous direction. at the same time. Dehnel’s book is living ingredients as you might find in high But what would happen if we added to this (or maybe ‘undead’) proof that we can”. literature, yet also working brilliantly complicated jigsaw puzzle the historical Dziennik Polski as pop, saturated with caustic irony and

JACEK DEHNEL BUT WITH OUR DEAD ALE Z NASZYMI UMARŁYMI figures whom contemporary politicians “But with Our Dead is a fantasy, but black humor. All this means that, although only on the surface. After having read the book rests on a single, fairly simple FICTION Krivoklat, I remembered Jacek Dehnel as metaphor, as the reader is given somewhat date of publication: 2019 an author of difficult novels that require facile reminder every few dozen pages or pages: 320 concentration. Now I know that he can so, But with Our Dead is a brilliant read – rights sold: ENGLISH also describe complex social relationships a bit funny, a bit scary, and increasingly Germany (Fototapeta) SAMPLE with humor and from a distance, giving us terrifying as you make your way to AVAILABLE a pleasant way to spend the time. the end”. A surprising, unusual, and original read”. Blanka Karzyna Dżugaj Od deski do deski Target Market “Jacek Dehnel is accused of defiling Lovers of historical prose. the most sacred Polish traditions, Fans of fantasy books and alternate 10,000 offending our noblest feelings and realities. copies sold profaning our national symbols. But with People interested in contemporary politics and geopolitics.

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 18 [email protected] 19 [email protected] Monika Drzazgowska (b. 1975) is a reporter and a Polish literature graduate. She was raised in Kaszuby, which is reflected in her stories in an original way. She works as an editor, graphic designer and photographer. Cicuta is her prose debut. A fragment of the novel was published in 2018 in the German literary magazine Sinn und Form, translated by Bernhard Hartmann. MONIKA DRZAZGOWSKA fot. …

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 20 [email protected] Keynote a look at twelve days in the protagonist’s Twelve days from forty years of a life – this life. We see how she matures, how she is all we get to see from Zofia’s biography. feels unloved by her parents, mostly by her Yet it suffices to render a tale of a tough mother. How she loses her father, when he upbringing in rural communist Poland, drowns in the lake and feels guilty for his solitude and hope for a better life. death. She enters her adult life lonely and alienated, though surrounded by a large Selling Points family and friends. When she becomes  An incredibly original plot idea – the life a mother, she does not feel ready for of a woman shown through twelve key the role. At any rate, she never feels ready days over the course of decades. for any of the eternal female roles – but  A study of the solitude and alienation of the arrival of her daughter Magdalena into a woman growing up in the countryside. the world changes her life. A touching tale  A multidimensional novel about of anxiety and loneliness, but also growing the Polish countryside from the 1970s to hopes for a better future. the present day.  A confined, sometimes even intimate Target Market tale that is still written with panache and Those who love tales of drama. set against the historical canvas of the day. Readers of sagas.  Profound and fascinating psychological portraits, both male and female.  A story of the Kaszuby area – a fascinating yet little-known part of Poland that is clearly distinct from the rest of the country. Description It is the late 1970s in a small Kaszubian village lost somewhere among the forests and lakes of Northern Poland. We meet Zofia as a young girl, living in a world of rural superstition and generational mistrust. Every chapter then sweeps us

MONIKA DRZAZGOWSKA CICUTA SZALEJ four years forwards – in this way we get FICTION date of publication: 2021 pages: 382

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 22 [email protected] 23 [email protected] Anna Dziewit-Meller (b. 1981) is a writer and journalist born in Silesia, and also the lead singer in a rock band. As a writer of opinion pieces, she works with Poland’s leading periodicals, such as Tygodnik Powszechny and Gazeta Wyborcza. She has previously released two celebrated novels: Disco (2012) and Mount Taygetus (2016). Her latest novel is All Because of One Lucifer (2020). It was a finalist in the competition for The Book of the Year distinction organized by Lubimy czytać (We Like to Read a website for book lovers) – nominated fin the category of the the Best Historical Novel. She has also earned massive popularity for her children’s book series, Ladies, Lasses, Little Girls, whose adventure stories mix brilliantly with feminist content for young readers. In 2021 she was made editor‑in‑chief of a large Polish publishing house, Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal. ANNA DZIEWIT-MELLER fot. Weronika Ławniczak fot. Weronika

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 24 [email protected] Keynote Dziewit‑Meller speaks of the very language Target Market A subtle, polyphonic novel about trauma women have used to build their stories. Readers of ambitious women’s prose. and the need for tenderness. The histories  An insightful psychological study of Lovers of profound and nuanced of Poland and Silesia from women’s mother-daughter relationships. psychological novels. perspectives.  An emotional pursuit of a family Those interested in the twentieth-century mystery – like a detective, step by step, history of Poland. Selling Points the protagonist gets to the source of  The latest book by this widely admired the trauma that has been poisoning her award-winning author, known for family for years. addressing difficult and painful topics  A classical novel, written without (her previous novel, Mount Taygetus, spoke unnecessary formal divagations, and with of Nazi crimes committed on the patients epic sweep. of a Silesian psychiatric hospital).  Dziewit-Meller is known and acclaimed  A dense, multi-tiered family saga, with in Poland, and a media-friendly parallel strands in the late 1940s and figure – she publishes opinion pieces, the present. hosts a videoblog on literature, and is  The history of the twentieth century the author of a highly popular book series wholly told by women. Dziwit-Meller gives for children, Ladies, Lasses, Little Girls. the floor to the female protagonists who have been silenced for decades. Description  An unusual tale of postwar Poland, of Four generations of women, each of them the bright and dark sides of the emerging stamped with the same trauma. Though communist nation. bound by blood ties, there is no closeness  Silesia is an extraordinary, multicultural, between them. It all began in Silesia right and diverse place with a complex after the war. The main protagonist’s history. Dziwit-Meller portrays it in great-grandmother buried a painful a multidimensional light, introducing experience deep inside of her, trying to whole new motifs and contexts. leave past behind. Unfortunately, the past The Silesian identity is still far from being events she once repressed haunt her like fully told. ghosts. She cannot cope with them, and  A polyphonic tale that tackles thus unconsciously vents her suffering the complex history of Poland – on her child. The intergenerational transmission of trauma thus goes on – it ANNA DZIEWIT ‑ MELLER ALL BECAUSE OF ONE LUCIFER LUCYPERA OD JEDNEGO cannot be extinguished, like a blistering sore it radiates pain, stronger and FICTION stronger, on and on. date of publication: 2020 Dziewit-Meller’s book is the tale of women pages: 304 who love one another but cannot help but hurt each other. It is also about a burning need for contact and intimacy. And finally, it is a tale of Silesia itself, a place where no identity is simple or straightforward. The youngest woman in this family tree, 20,000 Katarzyna Twardowska, born in the 1980s, copies sold ENGLISH decides to break this cursed cycle of toxic insinuations, wounds, and secrets. SAMPLE She wants to rebuild contact with those AVAILABLE around her, especially as she herself is expecting a child. She wants her daughter to grow up in a better world.

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 26 [email protected] 27 [email protected] Julia Fiedorczuk (b. 1975) is a writer, poet, and translator. She has won the most important poetry prize, the Wisława Szymborska Award (in 2018 for Psalms). She was also nominated for the Nike Award in 2016 for her novel Weightlessness, and the Wrocław Silesius Poetry Award. In 2005 she was given the Austrian Hubert Burda Award for her poetry, which was published in Manuskripte. She works at the University of Warsaw. She made her debut in 2000; since then she has published six volumes of poetry and four novels. She lives in Warsaw. JULIA FIEDORCZUK

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 28 [email protected] Keynote the first time, the author departs from an world, which the author studies from up A multifaceted and moving novel, in which anthropocentric point of view – her novel close, with respect and environmental an intimate family history intertwines shows the plant and animal perspective to sensitivity. Here man is always a part of with the tumultuous history of the eastern be just as important as the human point nature, inseparably linked, yet constantly parts of Poland. of view. reimagining it, irreversibly destroying  A moving and universal tale of people what is beautiful, defenceless, fragile and Selling Points stripped of their homes and identities – unique, what makes the essence of this  The latest novel by a lauded Polish poet of refugees and nomads who only now multicultural, multilingual, and changing and prose writer, a winner of the Wisława are regaining their place in the history of world. Szymborska Award, nominated for the twentieth century. Full of epic sweep and narrative the Nike Award, known for her sensitivity  The time and rhythm of the novel are complexity, Fiedorczuk’s novel is a dense and remarkable feeling for nature, and marked, on the one hand, by History, and linguistically rich family saga in the place of people within it. which invades all the protagonists’ which family dramas are shown against  A novel that provides a unique glimpse biographies, and on the other hand, a backdrop of history. With the passing of reality through a past that leaves the cycle of nature, which is more than of generations in this Podlesie family, we a stamp on the present. a backdrop, taking part in the events as observe how the world changes as well –  Dense, sensual prose, written in much as the people. first the multicultural pre-war melting a beautiful, rhythmic language, inspired in pot vanishes, then the harsh times of part by the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. Description communism strike, eventually giving  A universal story told from the original, Every place has its own story to tell… way to the kitsch of capitalism. All that intimate perspective of a family in a small, The author of this novel presents remains to people, as history painfully provincial society. the tempestuous fortunes of a couple proves time and again, is to learn patience  The power of an evocative poetic from two different environments: Michał, and distance from the world. sensibility, a sense of beauty and who attends an Orthodox church, and his Julia Fiedorczuk gives us some vivid and the natural rhythms. Catholic wife Miłka. It follows the cyclical original portraits of some people who  A novel that broaches the most rhythm of nature, which harmonizes with embody the multicultural, multi-ethnic fundamental issues of human life. the people’s lives: births and deaths, loss and utterly contradictory society of  A book that speaks of the complex and pain, endurance and determination. Podlasie. vicissitudes of Polish twentieth-century Adherents of various religions all history, where intimate dramas are forever neighbour each other on a picturesque “Fiedorczuk joins elements of tangled with great tragedies. river: Catholics, Jews, and Tatars. They the historical and psychological novel,  A new and original way of are all pummelled by the tides of history – while subverting the accepted vision of depicting Polish history. Not for wars, national conflicts, social and history, and rewriting man’s place in it, JULIA FIEDORCZUK UNDER THE SUN POD SŁOŃCEM political transformations. The whole of widening the field of discussion”. contemporary Polish history is enclosed in Paulina Małochleb, Polityka FICTION the complex story of Michał and Miłka – “Under the Sun is a poetic tale of date of publication: 2020 from the dramatic events of the war the frailty of human life, of nature, of pages: 352 (deportations of neighbours, pogroms, the combination of man and nature. This Rights sold: the death of loved ones), through is a tale of things both crucial and trivial. Bosnia and Hercegowina (Buybook), the years of stability in Communist Of daily routines and the adventures that Lithuania (Vaga Publishersa) Poland. The supporting characters are sometimes transpire. And above all, of also important to the novel – the retired the people seeking their way – in love, teacher Franciszek, a true eccentric, suffering, and death”. ENGLISH Marianna Zającowa, known as the devil’s Judyta Ostapiak­‑Jagodzińska, histmag.org SAMPLE lover, Jewdokia Ziemakowa, who AVAILABLE has stillborn babies, or the sensitive “Fiedorczuk is truly sensitive to Jurek Bułka, who listens carefully to the exceptional prose of life, portraying the sounds from within the earth. But people whose biographies are easily the protagonists of this tale are not forgotten. She speaks of those who, for only the people, but the whole animate various reasons felt alienated in their

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 30 [email protected] 31 [email protected] ordinariness. (…) It is marvelous to draw This new novel by Julia Fiedorczuk – near the people Julia Fiedorczuk depicts nominated for the Nike Award for and then separate from them. This is one Weightlessness – is a moving saga of people of those books whose readings can be as fated to live in difficult times, left to varied as the – only superficially similar – adapt and change, yet always dealing with fates of its protagonists. A beautiful, wise the past – because the things we discard book”. always come back”. Jarosław Czechowicz, Kultura.onet.pl krytycznymokiem.blogspot.pl “Fiedorczuk paints a picture of “In Under the Sun nature plays a major ordinary life that follows the rhythm of role, changing with the seasons, the changing seasons of the year, what the charms of fields and forests, and nature gives and takes away. In her there is even a chapter from an owl’s tale – in this multi-generational family perspective. Julia Fiedorczuk weaves saga – there is a kindness and sensitivity the parallels between the chicks hatching to human memory, uncertainty, anxiety, in a knothole and people’s fate into and trauma. She summons those who a gorgeous pattern. Since life is always truly existed, such as Jankiel Tykocki, marching on, there is plenty of dying in who photographed the inhabitants of this saga about people from Podlasie. Siemiatycz, or the inventor of Esperanto, Children die right after they’re born, the language of hope, Ludwik Zamenhof, grandparents and parents pass on, and his daughters. Yet above all, Julia Misza and Miłka go to their graves and Fiedorczuk teaches her readers humility. the reader takes part in every death. There The protagonists of Under the Sun live are also suicides and executions, but in respecting the eternal laws, they know Fiedorczuk death is not terrible. It is just that they are not the only living things on as natural as the seasons of the year, and earth, that there ‘is nothing more vital and the way it is described eases our anxiety conscious than a plant,’ and that ‘one day, about the inevitable”. your fate runs out.’ Jerzy Doroszkiewicz, poranny.pl A beautiful novel, the perfect book for “As always, Julia Fiedorczuk, weaves a time when the world has suddenly come an intricate and poetic tale from her to a stop”. protagonist’s emotions. This book is Michał Nogaś, Gazeta Wyborcza written in a beautiful language, but most Target Market touching of all is the fact that, although Those interested in contemporary Polish many protagonists are brought in, prose. the author gives each of them a sensitive Fans of multidimensional and dense hearing (which makes the reader think family sagas. of them as special individuals), spinning Those interested in the history and culture a remarkably intimate story out of all of of Polish “small homelands”. them”. Readers in search of original language and ksiazkioli.blogspot.com a poetic look at reality. “People immersed in memory and history. History immersed in the world of nature, changing according to eternal laws. This prose pulses according to the same overwhelming rhythm.

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 32 [email protected] 33 [email protected] Maciej Hen (b. 1955) has worked in various professions – as a cinemato­ grapher, screenwriter, photographer, documentary film director, actor and translator. He made his literary debut at the age of 49 in 2004 with the novel According to Her, published under the pseudonym Maciej Nawariak. His second book, Solfatara (2015), was described as one of the best Polish historical novels of recent years. It won the Witold Gombrowicz Award and was nominated for the Norwid Award. Maciej Hen has also written articles that have been published in Gazeta Wyborcza. MACIEJ HEN fot. Tomasz Paczos/FOTONOVA fot. Tomasz

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 34 [email protected] Keynote the first‑owner of the inherited property – hope”. A subversive book about contemporary the leader of the Galician Peasant Uprising Igor Nowiński, allegro.pl Poland, declassified intelligence and in 1846, Jakub Szela. “Hen shows himself to be a remarkable the search for one’s own place. Deutsch for the Intermediate Learners talent for quickly bringing incidental is a novel about searching for roots, Selling Points characters to life – maybe no one else in lost meaning and creative skills. On  A book by a well-known writer drawing Poland, apart from Ignacy Karpowicz, can the one hand, the story it tells is ironic on stories from his own family’s history. create such flesh-and-blood characters and full of mockery, but on the other  An interesting setting: Bukowina, with a single stroke of the pen”. hand it is not devoid of kindness towards Romania, Ukraine. Bartek Szczyżański, lubimyczytac.pl contemporary Poles – the descendants  An exciting book full of adventure of noblemen, peasants and Jewish “Maciej Hen has written a wise and and dark humour. townsmen. profound book full of cultural references, Description both provocative and subversive”. “Every character tears open a sack of The protagonist of the novel, Marek, is Beata Igielska, wywrota.pl anecdotes, the curiosities and historical a Warsaw-based visual artist who has paradoxes pile up. Here we see Maciej “This was a truly fascinating literary been divorced three times and is now Hen’s class as a writer, never boring, journey through contemporary Poland, completely broke and out of creative ideas. weaving a dynamic story, making it so we Ukraine, and Romania, finding historical One day he learns that he has inherited devour Deutsch…, without pausing for ties and bringing them together to a large estate in Bukowina. He can take a cup of tea”. make one story. The process by which over his inheritance only on one condition: Dariusz Nowacki, Książki. Magazyn do the protagonist turns vegetating into he must meet and come to an agreement czytania living is, I think, the novel’s great asset”. with his childhood friend, Szczepek. lubimyczytac.pl A major problem is that Szczepek is “Hen’s book is the gripping tale of a lonely currently living in Mexico, and an even man – lonely, but not old, reconciled to Target Market greater problem is that Szczepek is intent his fate, but still fighting for his family Lovers of ambitious literature. on committing suicide. Marek manages and his dignity. I have not come across Readers interested in history, including to persuade his friend to hold off on such a beautiful story of aging since Olga the history of Galicia. his decision and allow him to deal with Tokarczuk last collection of stories, but the inheritance on his behalf. He follows in Hen also brings in a brilliant sense of the footsteps of their common ancestors – humor”. through Ukraine to Romania, learning Aleksander Hudzik, Newsweek a great deal of surprising information “Like few others in Polish literature, Maciej

MACIEJ HEN FOR DEUTSCH THE INTERMEDIATE LEARNERS DLA ŚREDNIO ZAAWANSOWANYCH DEUTSCH about his origins. All roads lead to Hen has managed to create a depressingly precise portrait of an impoverished intellectual”. date of publication: 2019 Przemysław Czapliński, Dwutygodnik pages: 544 “In constructing this narrative, Maciej Hen plays a self-effacing game […] and juggles allusions. […] The book as a whole, whose patron saint could well be Jan Potocki, might be read as a Faustian parable of a temptation from which Marek Deutsch emerges triumphant”. ENGLISH Lektor (Tomasz Fiałkowski), Tygodnik

SAMPLE Powszechny AVAILABLE “Deutsch for the Semi-Advanced is a novel that will touch, amuse, and sometimes sadden you, and sometimes fill you with

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 36 [email protected] 37 [email protected] Liliana Hermetz (b. 1964) is a cultural critic and theatre scholar. She has studied French language, literature and civilisation at the University in Strasbourg. She also completed MBA studies and post-diploma studies at the Laboratory of New Theatre Practices at SWPS University and the Nowy Theatre. She has worked as a cultural animator, journalist, a ‘dishwasher’, translator and director. 2015 saw the release of her debut novel, Alicyjka, for which she received the Conrad Award. LILIANA HERMETZ fot. …

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 38 [email protected] Keynote language and its intricate construction; The author of one of the most acclaimed perhaps this is the only way to describe debuts of recent years returns with a dark the crippled world. and mystery-laden saga that spans Poland, Target Market France and Ukraine. Readers of dramas. Selling Points Readers of ambitious contemporary  Formally original and affecting prose. literature.  A tale of the cruelties of war from the perspective of ordinary people.  An incredible use of the saga convention to tell of a world torn apart by divisions and conflicts.  Vivid and expressive female characters.  Winner of Poland’s most important award for debutants – the Conrad Award (she was the first winner in the award’s history). Description The war ravaged Irène Villeman’s peace of mind, and scattered her family across Europe: through Poland, Ukraine and France. These ordinary people in various parts of the world try to tell their painful stories. Hermetz’s new book is an intimate novel in dozens of voices and styles. It shows the tragedy of war and chaos, which creeps into reality, but is also an attempt to reconstruct her own identity. Is this at all possible? How can one speak about oneself anew when so much has been irrevocably lost? Hermetz’s prose is

LILIANA HERMETZ MADAME VILLEMAN ROZRZUCONE an immediate delight with its succulent FICTION date of publication: 2021 pages: 400

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 40 [email protected] 41 [email protected] Ignacy Karpowicz (b. 1976) is a Polish prose writer and translator. He debuted in 2006 with the novel Lame, which critics hailed the emergence of one of the decades most exciting new voices. The author mercilessly skewered Polish backwards conservatism and nationalist mythologies. He has written eight novels to date, and has received two of the most important literary awards: the Polityka Passport for Balladynas and Romances (2010) and the Nike readers’ award for Nesses (2013). Karpowicz is an important and colorful figure in Polish literary life, but also has had a key voice as a journalist in social matters. He is one of Poland’s major writers from the generation born in the 1970s. Novels to date: Lame (2006), The Miracle (2007), The Emperor’s New Flower (2007), Gestures (2008), Balladynas and Romances (2010), Nesses (2013), Sonya (2014), Love (2017), Softly, Hush (2021). IGNACY KARPOWICZ fot. Wojciech Wojtkielewicz fot. Wojciech

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 42 [email protected] Keynote Ignacy Karpowicz has another surprise in Sonya – beautiful and crippled, good and store for us, delighting us more than ever, bad, a healer and cursed – tells a story of and proving that, following the successes desire and forbidden love, powerful and of his previous books, he has entered inconceivable, of feeling in spite of and the literary super leagues to stay. against the odds, feeling which cannot be “Karpowicz’s brilliant idea is constantly saved. confronting the protagonists with Selling Points foreignness and the inexpressibility of  Three times nominated for experience. As always in Karpowicz, the prestigious Nike Literary Award. everything is in inverted commas, touched  Winner of the Polityka Passport 2012. with irony and self-effacement, lined 35,000  One of the most admired Polish writers with a fear of immediacy, sentimentality, copies of the younger generation. or stating the obvious. As such, we trust sold  Shortlisted for the Nike Award. Sonya, and we also approach it with suspicion – which is just what Ignacy Description Karpowicz would like us to do”. A messenger, a Mal’ak, an angel of death Dariusz Nowacki, a review from the Book has come to hear the tales of Sonya’s life: Institute web site a story of a bloody rag and of an old dog in a collar with Gothic letters, of the greatest “As we know, Karpowicz creates perhaps of wars, of hatred and humiliation. But the best female figures in contemporary above all, a story of desire and forbidden prose. And when Sonya speaks of love love, powerful, inconceivable, transcending and death, Karpowicz delves into tones language and the world. Of the love of he has never before tapped into. There a beautiful girl for an invader in a black appears a sort of lyricism that takes you by uniform. the throat, without being kitsch”. Sonya is a great yet intimate, simple yet Justyna Sobolewska, Polityka difficult, subdued yet highly emotional, “Sonya’s malicious mastery is in its weave pacifist yet brutal story filled with love. of melodramatic illusion and cynical The author uses the convention of delusion. This novel is a trap”. the wartime romance to speak of “times Przemysław Czapliński, Gazeta Wyborcza past” and “now”; of “here” and “there”; of

IGNACY KARPOWICZ SONYA SOŃKA the hell and paradise of memory. “Sonya is a book that can fascinate. Karpowicz has, after all, a remarkable FICTION gift – the gift of being able to tell date of publication: 2014 intriguing stories that crackle with sharp pages: 208 observations”. rights sold: Andrzej Horubała, Do Rzeczy Belarus (Literaturny Dom Lovhinau) Target market Bulgaria (Matcom) Lovers of the work of Ignacy Karpowicz. France (Noir sur Blanc) Readers of ambitious contemporary prose. Germany (Berlin Verlag) ENGLISH, Macedonia (Begemot)

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Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 44 [email protected] 45 [email protected] Keynote Description “Love, with all its imperfections and Karpowicz is counted among the most Love is a remarkable Chinese-box novel inadequacies, is a novelist’s gesture of important prose voices of his generation; taking place in three time periods – renewal. The writer has drawn from he has returned with a novel both intimate a stylized prewar Polish manor (a motif psychological realism, from dystopias and and political. Love is a story of feelings that modeled on the biography of Jarosław fairy-tales, thus indicating genres to be wage a lopsided battle with a repressive Iwaszkiewicz, one of Poland’s major revitalized – basic forms, as it were. They system of a dystopian state from the near twentieth-century writers), a dystopian all place the writer before the necessity of future. late twenty-first-century reality cutting through language to elementary where Poland is an authoritarian and truths: intimacy in psychological realism, Selling Points homophobic country and every step a dystopian power structure hidden  One of the most important Polish outside the conservative/nationalist norm beneath the surface of normalcy, and writers of the middle generation, whom is severely punished, and a fairy-tale a belief in fairy-tales”. the conservative community regards as world – the only place where goodness Przemysław Czapliński a controversial figure. is possible. All three plots touch upon  Winner of the most important Polish “Karpowicz’s Love is an atypical sort the central issue of love – hidden, secret, literary awards: the Polityka Passport and of novel, a conglomerate of sorts. often conflicting with the prevailing norms the Nike readers’ award. The protagonists’ misty imaginings and laws. Each of the men in the novel  A tale of love – in its homosexual imperceptibly blend with their reality. denies himself the right to happiness and dimension and more universally – written Dream is prophecy, revealing the deepest fulfillment in a homosexual relationship. with neither distance nor irony, which is longings. All the tales are intercut, In this highly autobiographical novel, extremely rare in today’s literature. they contain the same core. Names and Karpowicz has managed to depict  A novel about the consequences reflections are repeated, as are, above all, a brutal world ruled by a thoughtless and of mindless and brutal bigotry and yearnings, the intense need for love and insensitive tyrant, in which the highest homophobia. the desire to be loved. Karpowicz offers price is paid for love. Although this novel  A highly autobiographical novel about moving evidence that ‘the world without juggles literary conventions with effortless the fate of a gay writer in Poland in 2018. love is a dead world and the time always skill, it can also be read as a pained  Though the novel takes place in an comes when a tired person begs to see portrait of modern-day Poland, where alternative version of the past and in the face and a heart of a creature illumined the demons of chauvinism and intolerance a dystopian future, it is a fascinating by love.’” are growing dangers to us all. depiction of contemporary Polish society, Agata Bednarek, O.pl wallowing in the depths of chauvinism. “Ignacy Karpowicz’s Love is an absolutely “Love is, to some degree, a challenge, but it exceptional novel. The fairy-tale part is is mainly a book that diagnoses universal a master-stroke, the imitations of prewar

IGNACY KARPOWICZ LOVE MIŁOŚĆ human problems – with a great deal of tact speech are a delight, the inventiveness in and empathy, without imposing its own creating a Poland severed from the world opinions or excessive philosophizing. It is FICTION should put our science-fiction writers to well worth reading, though its diversity date of publication: 2017 shame”. will keep you on your toes”. pages: 292 Dariusz Nowacki, Gazeta Wyborcza rights sold: Krytycznym okiem “How to speak of love without making Slovenia (Skuc) Target Market it a literary cliché, a cultural gadget, an Readers of ambitious prose, particularly emotional duty, a nauseating hodge- with gay motifs (Tóibín, Cunningham, podge of words and gestures? How to Hollinghurst). come a hair’s-breadth from this most Lovers of novels with dystopian visions of intimate of experiences without betraying the future. its intimacy? For Ignacy Karpowicz, 17,000 Fans of Polish culture and history. copies sold the response is: through literature”. Paweł Goźliński, Książki. Magazyn do czytania

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 46 [email protected] 47 [email protected] Keynote But the questions don’t end there – after One of Poland’s foremost and most Michał’s death, his adoptive mother tells popular prose writers returns with her version of the story, in which her a subversive and sensitively ironic family deceased sister stole more than her fiancé. saga that poses questions about the nature The mutual harm reaches even further, of good and evil. back to the 1950s. All this is told to her by Mateusz, a friend of Michał’s who tries to Selling Points put together all the pieces of this intricate  A remarkably original play on the saga puzzle. Will he manage? Is it at all possible genre. to make someone’s life into a coherent  A tale of Poland’s last seventy years from and sensible story? In this delightful and an extraordinary perspective. virtuosic tale, Karpowicz not only takes  A dynamic novel spanning many voices us into the dark recesses of a seemingly and time frames, reflecting the realities of average family, but raises some vital a range of eras. questions about the nature of evil and  An author who uses a different formal suffering. strategy for every novel, which makes his prose highly ambitious, while remaining Target Market accessible. Readers of ambitious prose.  A tremendous combination of irony Fans of Polish culture and history. and sensitivity – Karpowicz creates his characters as only he can.  An incredible feel for language, which is the author’s trademark.  A book largely based on true events. Description Michał’s parents were brutally murdered on Christmas Eve – he was two years old at the time and was spared because he stayed at home. Adopted by his aunt, he has spent all his life in the shadow of this tragedy. How did it happen? What

IGNACY KARPOWICZ HUSH SOFTLY, CICHO, CICHUTKO motivated the killer? Fate or chance? FICTION date of publication: 2021 pages: 272

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 48 [email protected] 49 [email protected] Mikołaj Łoziński (b. 1980) is a writer of novels and scripts and a photographer; he is among the foremost authors of his generation. He studied in Paris, where he graduated in sociology. For several years he exhibited his photographs and published his short stories in journals. He debuted in 2006 with Reisefieber, which brought him international fame, the prestigius Kościelski Proze, and nominations for the Nike Award and the Angelus Central European Literature Award. In 2012 he released The Book, for which he received the Polityka Passport Award. Both books have entered the canon of contemporary Polish literature. MIKOŁAJ ŁOZI N SKI fot.Julia Staniszewska

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 50 [email protected] Keynote dimension in Łoziński. Wandering the suspense, the author reveals one layer One of the most praised Polish debuts of the streets of his childhood city, Daniel of a family drama at a time, focusing the past decade. A dense and intimate tale takes a painful trip into the depths of on the protagonists’ experiences and of complex family relationships. his memory and soul. He goes in search emotions, subtly shading his psychological of answers to the questions that haunt portraits”. Selling Points him: who he really is, who his mother Robert Ostaszewski, Gazeta Wyborcza  A prose debut that was lauded by was, and most importantly, what to do readers and critics alike, and received “This is an example of psychological prose with the rest of his life. A master of subtle the prestigious Kościelski Award. based on some brilliantly drawn characters psychological portraiture, Łoziński does  One of the most important literary […] Łoziński skillfully shows the vacuum not, of course, give him easy solutions and voices of the younger generation in Poland. left behind by the loss of a loved one… answers. Yet the emotional and existential  A unique psychological study of a man and the difficult relationships between turbulence that shakes him during this undergoing a crisis, trying to free himself people close to one another. [This is] dense brief journey will leave an indelible mark from his complex family relationships. prose, linguistically excellent, that keeps on the rest of his life. This intimate,  A universal and timeless existential adding to the suspense; it has a beautiful compelling, and dense psychological novel. and intimate mood, never raising its voice. study of a man caught in complex family  Łoziński create a dense web of characters Łoziński does not shock us with a single relations from which he can only be in every novel. sentence”. painfully untangled.  A masterfully constructed contemporary Paweł Urbaniak, Twórczość saga. “This novel is remarkably mature in Target Market  Simple, spare, and thus highly precise its composition and in the human Readers of ambitious prose. language. problems it addresses. Written with great Those who love family sagas. psychological finesse and sensitivity to Description People interested in contemporary show the drama of misunderstanding Daniel, a forty-year-old Swedish journalist literature by the younger generation. those closest to us, this book is one of who has been trying for many years the most original works in new Polish to write the novel of his life, hears of literature”. the death of his mother with whom he From the justification of the Kościelski has long been out of touch and returns Prize jury home, to Paris, to finally put his life in order. The two weeks spent in France mark “A surprisingly mature debut by this a breakthrough for Daniel. The fever state twenty-five-year-old writer. A novel with of the title, of the kind that comes over us the mood of Bergman about the search

MIKOŁAJ ŁOZI N SKI REISEFIEBER REISEFIEBER before a journey, acquires an existential for truth – about the writer’s loved ones and himself. He masterfully sketches FICTION psychological portraits of a mature man date of publication: and his aging mother. Nominated for 2006 (first edition), 2011 (second edition) the Nike Award 2007”. pages: 224 Marek Radziwon, Culture.pl rights sold: “For a debut, this young author’s prose Czech Republic (Dybuk) is surprisingly mature and technically Germany (DVA) refined. I would even hazard the statement Hungary (Europa Kiado) that this is the most promising entrée Latvia (1/4 Satori) onto our literary scene since Dorota Słovenia (Zalozba Educa) Masłowska’s Snow White and Russian Red. Russia (Fluid) Ukraine (Piramida) Łoziński’s prose is subdued and intimate, as it were; there are no hyped controversial themes from the newspaper headlines or stylistic extravagances. Skillfully building

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 52 [email protected] 53 [email protected] Keynote another grapples with everyday life, but The non-verbalized is felt. Silence and A dense saga of a Polish family, spanning also with harsh and haunting isolation. voices combine perfectly”. several generations, in which intimate Yet the paradox of family ties is that Artur Jabłoński, Onet stories are set against a backdrop of grand they conquer all – sometimes providing “Mikołaj Łoziński has surprised me again. history. the support one needs in life, at other He has written a book that seems nothing times a source of suffering and frustration. Selling Points like the one before. It is more spare in its Łoziński tells of his protagonists with  The story of generations of family, set language, there really are no inessential sensitivity and understanding, his against dramatic historical turning points. words here, it is precise as a Swiss watch, memory anchored in a series of objects –  One of the most important literary composed like a musical score, with its a coffee maker, pipes, a ring, and a pair of voices of the younger generation in Poland own rhythm, and perhaps, I cannot be glasses. The tale is difficult and painful, yet (his debut was one of the major literary sure, it is stripped of emotion, which is very necessary, as it liberates and brings events of the decade). what makes it so powerful and striking”. a sense of renewal.  A simple and spare tale, which packs Remigiusz Grzela a powerful emotional punch. “This book is not a literal history of “This book told through many voices  A panorama of twentieth-century Polish my family. But that is its inspiration. is an attempt to undo a tangled family history. I think that everyone enters the world history. It speaks, to a large degree, about  A unique psychological study – Łoziński carrying the baggage of their parents’ and abandonment. This motif recurs in each as a seasoned analyst and portraitist grandparents’ experience. And their own generation. (…) of characters creates a splendid trans­ experiences come into play as well. Then Yet this is not a book from the perspective ‑generational gallery of characters. things get tougher and tougher. That’s why of a wounded person; on the contrary,  The author changes a conventional genre I decided to dig into the baggage – to see every one of its characters is viewed with into a true literary masterpiece. what’s there inside and whether there was understanding. Every character tries to something worth getting rid of, to lighten Description grapple with his or her baggage. This the load for the future”. The famous opening line of Anna book could well be liberating. Not only for Mikołaj Łoziński Karenina perfectly suits Łoziński’s second the narrator, but for the reader as well”. novel. The Book is an extraordinary “The cogs of the story grind us to a pulp, Justyna Sobolewska, Polityka multi­‑generational saga, partly based the narrative is governed by reality, Target Market on the author’s own family, in which the fiction is steeped in realness. This Readers of ambitious prose. the complex fates of the protagonists is one of the themes of this dazzling, Lovers of family sagas. are set against the stormy history of skillfully wrought and conceived book”. People interested in the history of Poland twentieth-century Poland. From the war Artur Madaliński, Dwutygodnik.com in the twentieth century.

MIKOŁAJ ŁOZI N SKI THE BOOK KSIĄŻKA to the present day, one generation after “In the provocative and subversive book, we find a mature writer. He had doubtless FICTION undertaken a great challenge in tackling date of publication: 2011 how he has imagined his own family”. pages: 180 Jarosław Czechowicz, Krytycznym okiem rights sold: Bulgaria (Balkani) “Łoziński’s style is incredible. It is elegant Czech Republic (Havran) and spare. No word here is accidental. Germany (Fototapeta) The formal minimalism does not, Hungary (Europa Kiado) however, limit his capacity to render Latvia (Mansards) the protagonists’ experiences: as we Italy (Atmosphere Libri) read we feel that the author’s restrained Slovenia (Modrijan) ENGLISH style sketches his characters’ profiles SAMPLE with only a few seemingly innocuous AVAILABLE facts, which give us more than a several- page description. Understatement is an important mode of communication here.

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 54 [email protected] 55 [email protected] Keynote poor, suspended somewhere between for a book like this”. A long-awaited novel by the master of the past (tradition), dreams (the United Justyna Sobolewska, Polityka family sagas – the story of a Jewish States) and the future (children). Wedged “Stramer has a balanced construction and family in Tarnów at the beginning of between their dreams of a better future a thoughtful concept. It keeps its distance the XX century to the Holocaust. there are numerous everyday problems from tactics that would dramatize the plot and conflicts because each member Selling Points in a simple way, it is after something else. of this large family views the world in  A novel by a highly-esteemed and prize- It is basically a novel about identity, and a different way. As befits an outstanding winning author who rarely publishes, not the tides of history”. chronicler of family life, the author which is why each of his books is a major Jarosław Czechowicz, Krytycznym okiem 21,000 follows his characters, describing their literary event in Poland. copies sold daily choices, successes and setbacks. “Stramer is basically a great, compelling,  An intimate and complex portrait This intimate but extremely intense story and beautiful tale of a family, of the bonds of a Jewish family in pre-war Poland. becomes interrupted, with increasing that tie brothers and sisters, of support in  A dense saga in which ordinary, frequency, by the vast and bloody history every situation, no matter how complex. everyday life is repeatedly interrupted by which will not bypass even this ordinary The Stramer family of the title, made up of the brutality of history. family living in the countryside. Łoziński parents and six children, and their town of  The novel presents, with careful detail, also accompanies the Stramer family Tarnów are painted so vividly that it seems the local colour and unique atmosphere in the Tarnów ghetto, which is followed Mikołaj Łoziński has been given the divine of a small town in Poland, half of by the Holocaust. The lucky ones manage talent of time travel”. the population of which was Jewish before to escape, but they will end up wandering Maria Fredro­‑Boniecka, Vogue World War II. along the peripheries of the Soviet Union.  An intricate family history is the ideal “I would call Stramer an outstanding novel In his simple but disarmingly honest and backdrop for presenting the complicated for several reasons. This is the kind of book painfully moving portrait of this family, history of Europe. people wait to find: wise and brilliantly Łoziński demonstrates simultaneously written. Were it not for the heaviness of Description the beauty and horror of ordinary life in the subject, you might call it an easy read. At the beginning of the twentieth Poland in the first half of the 20th century. But that would be inappropriate indeed. century, Nathan Stramer returns from “This story, the tale of a poor Jewish Or would it be? Łoziński has not written the United States to his hometown of family living in Tarnów in the interwar a novel about the Holocaust, but about Tarnów, an industrial town in southern period, would seem condemned to the life that came before it”. Poland, where half of the population is incurable sadness and the ending we all Piotr Bratkowski, Newsweek Jewish. Here he meets his wife, starts know. Yet Mikołaj Łoziński has managed a family and becomes the father of six “Stramer is not a Holocaust novel. Nor is it to wipe away the blackness that colors our

MIKOŁAJ ŁOZI N SKI STRAMER STRAMER children. We see an ordinary family, quite a nostalgic work of literature about a lost memory of those times. The protagonists world, captured in the flicker of Shabbat have no idea what is in store for them, candles. This book sounds so modern that FICTION while we know all too well. The author the reader might forget they’re not a Jew”. date of publication: autumn 2019 allows his characters to make mistakes, Tadeusz Sobolewski, Książki. Magazyn pages: 440 to commit blunders; he breathes life into do czytania rights sold: them, sometimes trivial, sometimes most Croatia (Hena.com) significant, sometimes grotesque, joyous Target Market France (Noir sur Blanc) ENGLISH and tragic”. Readers of historical books. Italy (Bottega Errante Edizioni) SAMPLE Adam Zagajewski Fans of family sagas. Macedonia (Muza Publishers) People interested in the history of Polish “Łoziński has managed to write a novel we Ukraine (AnettaPublishers) AVAILABLE Jews. don’t want to finish, we want to keep living in the Stramers’ world. The protagonists’ fates lead on, into a different Poland. It is CHOSEN AS THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR marvelous to close the book and feel that BY TWO MAJOR POLISH AND NEWSPAPERS POLITYKA – GAZETA WYBORCZA the story is still continuing. I was waiting Longlisted for the Nike Prize 2020

Shortlisted for the Angelus Central Contact: Contact: European Literature Award foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 56 [email protected] 57 [email protected] Andrzej Muszyński (b. 1984) is a writer, reporter and traveller. He was the first winner of a Ryszard Kapuściński Herodotus Foundation Scholarship in 2012. He has been nominated for Poland’s most important journalism and literary awards, including the Beata Pawlak award in 2013 for his collection The South, and his N SKI reportage on Burma, The Cyclone (2015), for the Gdynia Literary Award for his debut short-story collection, Boundary Line (2013), and for the Polityka Passport for his novel Podkrzywdzie (Damagedon). He is also famed as a traveller, in part for his lone crossing of the Atacama Desert, and for reaching the summit of Chaupi Orco, on the border between Peru and Bolivia. ANDRZEJ MUSZY fot. Andrzej Banaś

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 58 [email protected] Keynote a small, charming Jura village; he comes some important and uncomfortable A dense and moving tale of the search from Krakow’s urban intelligentsia. They topics that have been overlooked in for meaning in life – about the need for are in love, leading a happy life far from Polish literature. He applies his own parenting, for which there is no substitute. the bustle of the outside world. The crisis unique, rough, poetic language to speak comes when they try to have a child and of infertility, abortion, in vitro, and Selling Points fail – will they manage to fill the void depression. He does not sidestep it or  The author is considered one of the more that keeps creeping into their lives? Each pretend to be someone else – he faces up important literary voices of the younger of them tries to handle things their own to reality. And he demands the same of his

N SKI generation. way – Władek, being in conflict with his protagonists”.  Muszyński’s dense and refined language father, delves deep into the mysterious wp.pl has a rare talent for precision. history of the valley in which he lives,  A moving and intimate marriage drama Target Market discovering an old cemetery for children about a couple unable to come to terms Readers of psychological novels and who are born prematurely. Joanna, in with the fact that they will never be dramas. turn, is ailing, and plunges in depression, parents. Lovers of ambitious contemporary prose. barricading herself in the world of  An unusual backdrop: Muszyński returns Those interested in contemporary Polish her passions – exotic plants and old to his native Jura – a gorgeous, wild and culture and literature. radios. An old friend arrives to help mysterious corner of Poland. the floundering couple – a monk blessed  A brilliant rendering of the local colour with wisdom and erudition. Will this be in the Polish countryside. enough to keep the couple from losing  In the background, the author quite themselves entirely? skilfully depicts a panorama of the history of Poland over the past thirty years – “The title pertains to ‘without children.’ the novel shows the fate of the generation And we should add that this predicament entering adulthood just after the fall of is unwanted, arising from infertility, communism. and above all, inconceivable, falling  A subtle and evocative atmosphere of into the category of a metaphysical tension and depression – both within disaster. That is what makes this work the couple and in the vicinity around so original: an experience shared by them. hundreds of thousands of couples is elevated to the highest level; it mingles Description with such categories as guilt, victimhood, Joanna and Władek each come from redemption, or fate”.

ANDRZEJ MUSZY THE BALLAD OF JOANNA WITHOUT. AND WŁADEK FROM JURASSIC VALLEY BEZ. BALLADA O JOANNIE I WŁADKU Z JURAJSKIEJ DOLINY a different world. She’s a local, born in Dariusz Nowacki, Gazeta Wyborcza FICTION “This is not another novel about the beauty date of publication: 2020 of the countryside, the charms of an idyllic pages: 224 rural life or a naive view of the ‘periphery.’ Without is a highly emotional tale and – as will happen in ballads – a touch deceptive; it has to be savoured and read slowly. Unless you gulp it down greedily in a single day. Like the best television series, the kind that gets you hooked. There are many ways to read Muszyński’s book, but most important is that you do read it. Because this is an outstanding writer”. Wojciech Szot, zdaniemszota.pl “Andrzej Muszyński will brook no compromises. His latest novel takes on

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 60 [email protected] 61 [email protected] Robert Nowakowski (b. 1978) is a lawyer by education. He comes from the north of Poland, but has settled down in Cracow. He made his debut in 2015 with the well-received novel The Man with the Owl, which takes place in Cracow and Lviv at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ROBERT NOWAKOWSKI fot. …

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 62 [email protected] Keynote ‘Maybe the Germans were gone, but that A moving tale of the annihilation of didn’t make it safe right away’, says one the multicultural world that was pre-war of the novel’s protagonists. In his saga Bieszczady. A saga where generation after that spans several decades, Nowakowski generation grapples with the demons of shows how this multicultural, multi-ethnic nationalism. and multi-religious word was brutally devastated by stoking the demons of Selling Points nationalism. After the war, thousands of  A tale of the madness of history and its people were resettled from this region – all thousands of innocent victims that grabs those who did not fit the rigid definition you by the jugular. of ‘Pole’. Chased from their homes in an  A terrifying description of the fall ethnic cleansing that went by the innocent of a world in which various nations, name of Operation Vistula, they try to languages and religions lived alongside one return years later. This is their downfall. another for centuries. In Nowakowski’s novel, time heals no  A novel that is enormously dynamic and wounds, and the symbolic end of the old hard to put down. world has been marked in an irreversible  The author teases out some little-known and brutally literal manner. and very dark strands of Polish history.  This book knows no taboos – Target Market Nowakowski mercilessly recounts Those who love history books. the crimes on every side, which has had Readers of novels about societies and their major repercussions in the Polish public dramas. debate.  A flood of terse language – though the novel addresses difficult themes, it remains highly absorbing. Description Bieszczady – now a range of wild mountains in the southeastern part of Poland – conceals a great many bloody memories. For in Bieszczady, the Second

ROBERT NOWAKOWSKI THE HOMELAND OF APPLES OJCZYZNA JABŁEK World War did not come to an end in 1945. FICTION date of publication: 2021 pages: 408

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 64 [email protected] 65 [email protected] Tomasz Różycki (b. 1970) is one of the most important and acclaimed contemporary Polish poets, a winner of the Kościelski Award for his epic Twelve Stations (2004), nominated three times for Poland’s most important literary award, the Nike (in 2005 for Twelve Stations, in 2007 for Colonies, and in 2011 The Book of Revolutions), and twice for the Gdynia Literary Award. He is a Romance languages scholar and translator by education. He lives in Opole. TOMASZ RO ŻYCKI TOMASZ fot. Krzysztof Zieliński

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 66 [email protected] Keynote the least expected manner. But this A highly popular and multiple – award is not the end – there is still a literary winning poet in top form – a mock comic competition and a trip to a hippy festival epic that offers a sharp diagnosis of to the USA. In this caricatured Odyssey the state of our world. nothing is impossible. Yet Różycki’s wild plot is also a pretext to wander off Selling Points on elaborate digressions, full of bitter  An original idea – a contemporary, and ironic diagnoses of our world. grotesque form of the Odyssey. A phenomenal show of poetic imagination  An outstanding play on the epic hero and linguistic ability. convention to describe the social and human condition of highly unheroic times. Target Market  An original tale of contemporary Poland, Those who love contemporary poetry. with its dark and bright sides. A weave of Readers of ambitious literature. delight and condemnation. Those who love playful and experimental  Sensual descriptions and disarming literature. digressions, humour and nostalgia, all of it drenched in a bitter, distancing irony.  A spectacular show of imagination – the plot seems to surge forward free of all boundaries.  A remarkable and widely acknowledged poet, winner of many important awards, including the Kościelski Award. Description Three countries and two continents – Lewa Nielucki travels the world in pursuit of his loved one. He begins in a small town in Poland (probably Różycki’s home town of Opole), where the local politicians are comfortable settled in their corrupt and backwards world. Then a bizarre

TOMASZ RO ŻYCKI TOMASZ IYAS IJASZ pilgrimage to Lourdes, concluding in FICTION date of publication: 2021 pages: 416

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 68 [email protected] 69 [email protected] Łukasz Staniszewski (b. 1975) is a Polish author and scriptwriter; he has also produced radio plays, and was tied to Radio Olsztyn for years. In 2017 his Bird of Lead made its debut on the stage of the Stefan Jaracz Theater in Olsztyn, and a year later, his Mona Lisa was performed at the Aleksander Sewruk Theater in Elbląg. His dramaturgical output has been lauded on many occasions, including at the prestigious Two Theatres Festival in Sopot. ŁUKASZ STANISZEWSKI

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 70 [email protected] Keynote beautiful areas. Yet its history conceals Moving and sensual prose about a life in some dark secrets and tangled stories – the countryside that is both ordinary and much like Staniszewski’s prose debut. extraordinary – a collection of tales from Little Horrors is a remarkable book, in the Polish Macondo. which history and legend, as well as elements of local folklore smoothly Selling Points interweave with the author’s boundless  A touching and highly evocative literary imagination, which keeps step with debut. his tight and sensually rich language.  Sensual and supple prose, drawing from The result is a marvellous tale of the Polish some of the finest Polish and world literary countryside, which is at once a universal traditions, like Schulz or Marquez. metaphysical treatise on the nature of  A realistic and mythologized picture of the world. The various stories, filled Warmia – one of Poland’s most beautiful with charm and unusual protagonists, regions: full of forests and lakes, and are an attempt to understand reality harbouring many mysterious and intricate through storytelling. Staniszewski is also stories. remarkably agile in juggling conventions  The author draws heaping handfuls and moods – there are touching love from the local folk culture and lore, while stories, mystery plots, and, as the title transforming them into his own private suggests, scenes of terror. Little Horrors is tale. a literary micro-world, with something for  The driving forces behind Staniszewski’s everyone. world are Love and Death, as well as other emotions – desire, lust, yearning, and Target Market appetites often with a fatalist touch. Readers of atmospheric and moody prose.  A collection of highly taut and Fans of Olga Tokarczuk and Gabriel compelling tales about specific people Marquez. and places, which is also a universal People interested in Polish culture and metaphysical treatise on the nature of folklore. the world and human nature. Description Warmia – a land of a thousand lakes

ŁUKASZ STANISZEWSKI LITTLE HORRORS MAŁE GROZY and dense forests, one of Poland’s most FICTION date of publication: 2020 pages: 160 Rights sold: Germany (Schenkbuch Verlag)

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 72 [email protected] 73 [email protected] Szczepan Twardoch (b. 1979) is a writer and a columnist. He published essays and felietons in most of Polish magazines and newspapers. His books have received nominations for the Gdynia Literary Award and the Józef Mackiewicz Literary Award, he received the Silver Distinction of the Jerzy Żuławski Literary Award in 2008. He was given the Polityka Passport for his bestselling novel Morphine, which was also nominated for the Gdynia Literary Award 2013, the Angelus Central European Literary Award 2013, and the Culture Guarantee 2013. He is a winner of People ‘s Choice Nike 2013 Award. His novel entitled Drach was published in 2014 to great acclaim and shortlisted for the Nike Award. German translation of Drach was awarded the Brücke Berlin Literatur- und Übersetzerpreis. His novel The King (2016) has become a bestseller after only three weeks in the market. It was published in English by Amazon Publishing to great acclaim earning a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and turned into a TV series by Canal +. The Kingdom (2018) is a highly successful follow – up to The King. He also published a collection of opinion columns – Bond’s Suits (2019). His latest novel is Humbel (2020). SZCZEPAN TWARDOCH fot. Zuza Krajewska | Warsaw Creatives fot. Zuza Krajewska | Warsaw

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 74 [email protected] Keynote with equal reluctance. He does not want to A rollicking novel about a man born in bad be a Pole or a German. He does, however, times, and a debaucherous artist hooked want to get his hands on more morphine on morphine, who has transformed into and live his old life as a barfly and a demonic, dangerous, and irresponsible a womanizer. conspirator, husband, and lover… But you cannot escape from history. In Morphine, Szczepan Twardoch has 112,000 Selling Points achieved a rare feat in Polish prose – copies sold  Winner of Reader’s Choice Nike 2013 he has created an anti-hero whom you Award! cannot help but like. Like the great ones – Film  Winner of the Polityka Passport in 2013! Witkacy, Gombrowicz, Littell – the young rights sold  An original combination of the fantastic writer knows how to show a weak, torn and the traditional historical novel, human being enmeshed in history. with elements of political and A crazed, trance-inducing, and bold novel. psychological thriller. “The Author uses techniques of modernist  A unique protagonist – an unusual novel with mastery. The use of internal individual, an outsider, a powerful man, monologue, stream of consciousness and often a soldier, and aristocrat, in conflict free indirect speech brings into mind with the modern world, faithful to Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz as well as the values he espouses, but also struggling Joyce’s Ullysses. Just like Leopold Bloom with identity problems. or Franz Biberkopf, Konstanty Willeman Description is an anti-hero who roams the streets of Konstanty Willemann lives in Warsaw, a big city”. but he is the son of a German aristocrat Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and a Polonized Silesian woman, who does “Like in Littell’s The Kindly Ones, in not make much of patriotic slogans and Twardoch’s Morphine cynicism is mixed the tradition of heroic soldiers dying for with decadence and obscenity with their homelands. He is a cynic, a scoundrel, sentimentalism… Nevertheless the attempt and a bon vivant. He is a cheating husband at presenting the events from Autumn 1939 and a bad father. in Warsaw with the use of the language of Konstanty reluctantly takes part in the era (instead of a realistic reenactment of the September Campaign, and when it what happened to our mothers and fathers)

SZCZEPAN TWARDOCH MORPHINE MORFINA collapses, he joins a secret organization is fascinating”. FICTION Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung date of publication: 2012 “Twardoch’s novel in a remarkably artful pages: 624 and witty way casts doubt on monumental rights sold: stereotypes of both Polish and German Bulgaria (Eren Media) culture of memory”. Croatia (Hena Com) FRENCH Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Czech Republic (Host) Target market Germany (Rowohlt) AND GERMAN EDITIONS Novel lovers of all ages. France (Noir sur Blanc) Those intersted in the history of Poland Hungary (Typotex) AVAILABLE and alterante realities. Macedonia (Begemot) Romania (Casa Cartii de Stiinta) Russia (Inostrannaya Literatura) Serbia (Dereta) Slovenia (Cankarjeva Zalozba) Ukraine (P.H. Ranok Ltd.) Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 76 [email protected] 77 [email protected] Keynote in which they live; they have a son A mysterious witness to history observes together. Józef takes part in an uprising, with a cold and ruthless eye the dramatic, witnesses the cruelties of both the Silesian passionate lives of two families caught up Germans and the Silesian Poles. In the end in the bloody history of Upper Silesia. he returns to work in the mines. Unexpectedly, fifteen-year-old Klara, Selling points a young nymphomaniac, appears along  A true revelation of Polish prose. the way. Józef has a passionate affair with  Nominated for many prestigious awards her, until he finds another man in her and distinctions. home. In an erotic frenzy he strangles his  Winner of the prestigious Polityka lover. Fleeing the lynch mob, he hides out Passport in 2012. in the psychiatric hospital in Rybnik. At  Winner of People’s Choice NIKE 2013 the moment of their separation, Józef’s Award. wife is carrying their second child…  Drach was on NIKE 2015 Award shortlist. Drach traces “the beautiful, cruel, sad, Description comical, and ultimately tragic” fates of An Upper Silesian saga of the 20th people – as Szczepan Twardoch has put it – century: two Polish families, stormy inspired by the true story of the author’s Polish‑German relations, the Silesian family. Uprising, and World War II. Love, betrayal, “There is no doubt in my mind – Twardoch and madness. And a mysterious witness is at present a writer endowed with to history, who observes with a cold and creative powers of which his peers can only ruthless eye the dramatic, passionate lives dream”. of two families caught up in the bloody Dariusz Nowacki, Gazeta Wyborcza history of Upper Silesia. Józef Draga, born at the close of the 19th Target market century, is serving in the German army. Enthusiasts of ambitious contemporary After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk he is literature, novel lovers, readers released from the service and returns of psychological and dramatic novels, to Silesia. He weds Valeska Konopka, those interested in history. a Silesian with a sizable dowry, but who scarcely speaks a word of Polish. They lead

SZCZEPAN TWARDOCH DRACH DRACH a prosperous life for the time and the place FICTION date of publication: 2014 pages: 400 rights sold: Germany (Rowohlt) GERMAN EDITION AVAILABLE

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 78 [email protected] 79 [email protected] Keynote details, this is a novel you cannot of a boxing match. All of Twardoch’s Warsaw, the tumultuous 1930s. put down. Appealing, bold, and fetishes are in place: weapons, cars, suits. Sophistication and poverty. The colorful groundbreaking – it is the author’s next There’s exciting violence, a locker-room GERMAN and contradictory world of synagogues step forward in expanding his reader base, atmosphere, sexual fantasies and voyeur- RIGHTS SOLD and churches, salons and universities, proving the great scope and universality of ism – we first see the main protagonist, IN A Zionist clubs, communist conspiracies, his literature. the Jewish mafioso boxer Jakub Szapiro, PRE-EMPT nationalist raiding parties, the secular and through the eyes of an anxious skinny boy. Description the very pious. On the eve of World War II, Is the old Israeli army general recalling TV series We encounter Jakub Szapiro as he is these co-existing worlds are connected bygone times the same person? rights knocking out his rival after a brief and by an infamous gang. The novel’s main lopsided fight. Around the ring we hear If we were to look at the first few dozen sold protagonist, Jakub Szapiro, a boxer of cries of joy from the Jewish audience pages of The King – with its world of brawls Jewish descent, is one of the gang leaders and the disappointment of the Polish and street curiosities – it would seem to in the violent underworld. Strong, daring, fans. The winning boxer snubs his be Twardoch’s most genre novel. A retro victorious, he seems to be one of the true defeated opponent – a member of detective story in the spirit of Tyrmand, rulers of the proud and ungovernable a Fascist organization. Triumphant and but darker and more brutal”. metropolis. admired, Szapiro becomes an idol. He is Witold Mrozek Selling Points not, however, the perfect superhero type. “After reading The King it is hard to just  A brilliantly depicted picture of prewar He is the right-hand man of Kum Kaplica, put it back on the shelf and pretend that Warsaw. The reader can walk the streets Warsaw’s “Godfather”, head of the Polish­ we have merely read a great book. The King and alleyways of the intact, multicultural ‑Jewish mafia, which harangues both rummages around in our guts and plunges city with its wealth of nightlife, extremes, Poles and Jews without bias. The boxer deep into our consciences”. Krzysztof Varga and ideological struggles. ruthlessly pursues crooks and wipes out  The main protagonist is a fascinating his opponents in cold blood. Kum Kaplica “This is what Twardoch probably does and utterly fleshed-out character. Widely is known throughout the city. He drives best – he writes about Warsaw like it was admired and desired, yet terrifying and a beautiful Chrysler, is munificent toward New York or Chicago of the time, and does cruel, he evades all facile categories. some and oppresses and humiliates others. it in fine style”. Łukasz Grzymisławski  Poland in the 1930s, consumed by The developing events pull the reader into “It promises to be something like a Polish disputes, full of contradictions in society the jeopardous world of prewar Warsaw. version of Inglourious Basterds, in which and world views, described without Here conflicts are resolved by force, and the oppressed Polish Jews, supported by mythologizing. the weak have no say in the matter. We a likeable Polish gangster, take revenge on  Full of compelling subplots, vivid encounter the fascinating and colorful Polih antisemites. Or simply a gangster characters, plot twists, and historical figures of gangsters, gamblers, bourgeoisie,

SZCZEPAN TWARDOCH THE KING KRÓL picaresque novel set in an era that is salesmen, athletes, prostitutes, and increasingly popular”. Juliusz Kurkiewicz corrupt politicians from both sides of FICTION GERMAN, the fence. In his inimitable style, with Target market date of publication: 2016 FRENCH & ENGLISH impeccable care for historical detail, A very wide audience. Lovers of tough and pages: 432 EDITIONS Twardoch portrays the life of the city and suspenseful literature. Beginning with rights sold: AVAILABLE its criminals, as well as the political elite. those who read thrillers and adventure China (Shanghai Literature & Publishing He skillfully weaves in an unconventional novels, but also those in search of House) romantic subplot and startling plot twists, romantic subplots, as well as readers Czech Republic (Host) ensuring his audience a truly intense read. of literature that deals with history, its Germany (Rowohlt) gaps, controversial Polish/Jewish themes, “The King is a deftly written thriller with Greece (Kastaniotis) and those in search of a contemporary, a subtle and unimposing issue behind Hungary (Typotex) dazzling, and conscious voice on it. And a fantasy of the male ideal with Italy (Sellerio Editore) the history of Europe and its still-shaky a homoerotic subtext”. The Netherlands (Nieuw Amsterdam) social and ethnic relations. 166,000 Dariusz Nowacki, Gazeta Wyborcza Slovakia (Absynt) copies World English (Amazon Publishing) “This is a real ‘boy’s’ novel. It begins with sold a punch – with a fast-paced description

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 80 [email protected] 81 [email protected] Keynote latest novel he goes further – Ryfka and ‑chronological) plot line, and that The master of Polish prose returns Dawid, protagonists of The King, attempt distinctive voice – Twardoch has found with a new novel – the protagonists to survive the hell of German-occupied his own, unique style, demonstrated in we remember from The King are now in Warsaw in The Kingdom. In his sharp­‑edged a high degree of literary awareness and occupied Warsaw. and ruthless style he shows how people’s improving technique, which remains everyday lives looked during the war – highly personal, an echo of his private Selling Points both those who tried to save others, and struggles”.  Poland’s most popular prose writer those capable of the greatest infamies. Sławomir Grabowski, Esensja returns with a new novel. The surrounding world grows darker and  The sequel to the bestselling The King, Target Market darker, and the only ray of hope in a world but also an autonomous novel that can Lovers of historical prose. of bloody madness is love – but perhaps be read with no knowledge of what came Those interested in both ambitious this, too, will not stand the test of time? before. literature and thrillers. The author seduces us with the brutal  Powerful and graphic, showing Fans of tough, masculine prose. and raw beauty of his literature, while the realities of the war and occupied stripping us of all our illusions. This is Warsaw. a powerful novel, soaked in despair, yet  Tough, masculine prose, which also also achingly beautiful and full of love – features love interests and strong, Twardoch is in top form. independent women.  The author is one of the most eagerly “In The Kingdom, Szczepan Twardoch read and frequently awarded Polish prose gives us svelte middle-of-the-road prose writers. based on popular pop fiction conventions.  The King and The Kingdom are He almost entirely abandons narrative the beginning of a highly promising series peculiarities, but he does give free rein of historical novels. to his imagination, sparing none of  Shortlisted for the NIKE Literary Award the macabre or the erotic. Isn’t that why 2019. we love him?” Dariusz Nowacki, Gazeta Wyborcza Description Twardoch’s much read and adored The King “The Kingdom is a book about non-Polish left plenty of readers wanting more. Poles, it is a compelling, sometimes The author gave us a highly nuanced surprising novel packed with thrills and image of prewar Warsaw, torn by political adventure – it is great literature”.

SZCZEPAN TWARDOCH THE KINGDOM KRÓLESTWO pressures, yet also full of passions. In his Kurzojady “The power of The Kingdom is its courage in FICTION unveiling the truth about the inconstancy date of publication: 2018 of human nature, revealed in the face of pages: 352 challenges presented by history”. Rights sold: Janusz R. Kowalczyk, Culture.pl Germany (Rowohlt) The Netherlands (Nieuw Amsterdam) “The Kingdom is more emotional and intimate than The King. It is also more depressing, full of regret, hatred, worry, hunger, cold, but also love. It truly is a great novel, and deserves your attention”. 86,000 Martyna Gancarczyk, Czytaj.pl copies sold “The Kingdom is a well-written novel – it contains complex characters with tangled motives, an original (and non­

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 82 [email protected] 83 [email protected] Keynote  A universal story of a search for identity forged in the fires of the twentieth The latest novel by this admired and widely in the twenty-first century, and of people century’s bloodiest wars. read writer, a moving tale of tangled torn from their place on earth. Target Market fortunes and personal dramas in Silesia at  The cultural melting pot that Silesia Readers of Szczepan Twardoch’s novels. the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth has been for centuries is portrayed by Lovers of powerful, ambitious, masculine centuries. Twardoch through the language itself, prose. a blend of German, Polish, and Silesian. Selling Points Fans of contemporary historical literature.  Twardoch is a remarkably media-friendly  A full-blooded, dense historical novel figure, one of Poland’s most recognizable about the vicissitudes of the Silesians at authors, famed for his sharp tongue and the turn of the century. 80,000 controversial statements.  Highly visual, multidimensional intrigue, copies sold  Twardoch has been sticking a spoke in full of exciting twists and turns and Polish public debate for years – criticized unconventional protagonists. from various sides of the political  A literary tale about what eludes trenches, he always takes his own, historians – the solitary fates of people uncompromising path. who, against their wills, are entangled in  Humility is a contemporary rendition politics and the bloody history of their of the classic motif of the writer going small homelands. against the tide of history.  The theme of the Silesian identity and  In 2020, Canal+ released a serial based its birth – the various uprisings, political on his previous novel, The King. games, and attempts to conquer – remains one of the great untold stories in Polish Description and German history. Alois Pokora never cared for politics – but  A moving tale of the passionate, to his misfortune, politics were quite fond unrequited love that drives the main of him. Born at the turn of the nineteenth protagonist. and twentieth centuries in Upper Silesia,  A marvelous feast for lovers of military he experienced history at its worst. history and other kinds of material Heavily wounded during an attack on culture – the author is an expert in French trenches, he awoke from a coma weapons, uniforms, and male fashion, after the war was over. 1919 was to be and these details are rendered with no calmer, however. Silesia was coming extraordinary precision. to a full boil – the Poles and Germans SZCZEPAN TWARDOCH HUMILITY POKORA were furiously struggling for this scrap of land, for centuries a cultural melting FICTION pot. The series of bloody uprisings and date of publication: 2020 political tussles – all this was happening pages: 518 above the Silesians’ heads, who only got caught in the crossfire. Alois, at odds with his father, seeking comfort in his fantasies of a beautiful but unattainable woman, tries to find even an iota of sense in it all. Weary of the fighting, he’s sick of it all, and certainly has no interest in taking part in more fratricidal fighting. Will he manage to find even a moment’s respite? The new novel by one of the most widely read of Polish/Silesian writers is a tale of struggle, courage, but also suffering and resignation – the story of an identity

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 84 [email protected] 85 [email protected] Janusz Leon Wiśniewski (b. 1954) is a writer and scientist, a chemistry professor at the Łódź University of Technology. He made his debut in 2001 with the novel Loneliness in the Net, which was turned into a film and a serial. He has taken part in literary experiments – in 2002, for instance, he created the novella Martyna with the help of internauts. He has also written opinion pieces for popular Polish magazines. He is the author of over a dozen novels, all of which have been overnight bestsellers. Translations of his books have been published in nineteen countries: Russia, China, Italy, Turkey, Holland, Belgium, Romania, Croatia, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Albania, Vietnam, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia and Armenia. JANUSZ LEON JANUSZ LEON WIS NIEWSKI fot. Mikołaj Rutkowski

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 86 [email protected] 87 [email protected] Keynote just a moment’s glimpse. This suffices, The bestselling author returns with however, to feel the whole intensity of a short-story collection. In each of the feelings, emotions and desires carried them we meet a completely different by seemingly average people. An old hand protagonist, though they all are grappling in collecting people’s stories, Wiśniewski with an overwhelming sense of loneliness. effectively persuades us that everyone, And a yearning for love. whether consciously and sincerely or by fooling themselves and staying in toxic Selling Points situations, is looking for one thing at every  A bestselling writer, translated into stage of life: a bit of happiness. many languages (in Russia his books have sold over a million copies). Target Market  The protagonists are highly diverse – Those who love heartfelt books. a broad and fascinating social panorama. Readers of psychological books.  A deep analysis of today’s anxieties and a moving description of the present epidemic of loneliness.  The prose can take a dark turn, yet more often it shows the power of true love.  Ambitious literature that is written in a simple and accessible way.  Apart from the fictional pieces, the book also contains in-depth reflections on passing down intelligence, narcissism, the biochemisty of love, the history of botox and meditation. Description Janusz Leon Wiśniewski is known, above all, as a very subtle portrayer of human souls. Having previously been mainly a novelist, he now returns a writer of short stories that are intimate and let

JANUSZ LEON JANUSZ LEON WIS NIEWSKI WE CALL IT LOVE MIŁOŚĆ NAZWIJMY TO us peer into the protagonists’ souls for FICTION date of publication: 2020 pages: 164

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 88 [email protected] 89 [email protected] Gabriella Contestabile is an Italian to the core. She went to Canada with her father as a girl, and there she fully appreciated her cultural heritage. She is the owner of an unusual travel bureau, Viaggi Su Misura (Trips Made to Measure), that takes women to the furthest corners of the globe and teaches them to love life. She is an energetic and entrepreneurial woman – a foreign-languages teacher and a businesswoman. She is an advocate for supporting women in striving for independence and happiness. She is also the author of The Artisan’s Star. GABRIELLA CONTESTABILE fot. Catherine Adams Michele

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 90 [email protected] Keynote  A thoroughly brilliant and bestselling What can the world learn from Italian title that has won the hearts of thousands women? A great deal – love of life, of Poles. celebrating everyday pleasures and Description grabbing the world by the horns. The Japanese teach cleaning, the Koreans Selling Points make-up, and Danes hygge – but no  An original guide to the “Italian one beats the Italian women, who, for lifestyle”, the ability to enjoy everything many centuries, have perfected the art life has to give. of enjoying life. In this moving book,  In a simple and convincing way, Gabriella Contestabile tells the story of the author speaks of generations of Italian her complicated life – as a young woman women’s experiences, able to celebrate she traveled to Canada with her father, every element of daily life like no other. and there she fully appreciated her Italian  A marvelous affirmation of femininity – roots – to build a simple and accessible a tale of how women of any age can live as guidebook for living to the full. Day- they please. long feasting and meals with dozens of  Step-by-step instructions on how to dishes, hours spent in the ritual brewing build your life and relationships with and drinking of coffee, love of beautiful others to feel satisfaction and put a spring clothing – while other cultures have seen in your step. these things as excesses and a waste  The author tells fascinating and moving of time, Italians (and especially Italian stories from her own life – she uses her women) have used them to perfect experiences to show that the world is a unique art of affirming every aspect of a fascinating place that comes in all kinds life. This is more than a guidebook – it is of colors. a beautiful tale of a love for the world we  The author brings back somewhat all can awaken inside. forgotten (or sometimes cliched Target Market through pop culture) elements of Italian Readers of guidebooks and self­ culture (celebrating food, coffee, and ‑development books. wine; feasting; making use of beautiful Lovers of the prose of everyday life. landscapes). People in love with Italy. GABRIELLA CONTESTABILE AND STILETTOS: SASS, SMARTS WOMEN MAKE HOW ITALIAN THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY MOGĄ NAS NAUCZYĆ? WŁOSZKI. CZEGO NON-FICTION date of publication: 2020 pages: 328

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Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 92 [email protected] 93 [email protected] Leszek Cichy (b. 1951) is one of the world’s top Himalayan climbers, the first winter conqueror of Mount Everest in history. A surveyor by education, he is presently a financier, a participant in pioneering Polish expeditions to the Himalayas and Karakorum, including Shisparé, Gasherbrum II, Makalu, and winter expeditions to Mount Everest and K2. He was the first Pole to conquer the Seven Summits. He is the co-author of Conversations about Everest.

Piotr Trybalski (b. 1975) is one of Poland’s foremost journalists and travelers, a photographer once named Travel Photographer of the Year. He has been a finalist and winner of awards like Grand Press Photo, the National Geographic Photo Contest, Leica Street Photo, and Outdoor Photographer of The Year. He has been traveling for many years, organizing expeditions and reportage and landscape photo workshops. His books include A Traveling Photographer and Journeys with Adrenaline, and he co‑authored the biography of Polish Himalayan climber Piotr Pustelnik, I, Pustelnik. He has also written If There Were No Everest…, the story of the first winter ascent of the world’s highest

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Leszek Cichy Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 94 [email protected] Keynote steps: from the logistics to the daring A remarkable tale of one of the greatest attacks on the summit. feats in world Himalayan expeditions – Description the first winter ascent of the world’s After the world’s tallest mountain was highest mountain. first conquered in 1953, for many years it did not even enter anyone’s head to try Selling Points a winter ascent. That was until February  An incredible book about mountains 1980, when two Poles stood on the roof of and people who are ready to sacrifice the world. One of them was Leszek Cichy, everything for them. the author of words which have gone down  The tale of a feat which was considered in the history of climbing: “If Everest impossible for decades. were not there, I don’t suppose we’d have  The story of the world’s most made the ascent”. At the turn of the 1970s outstanding climbers, but also the history and 80s, Polish Himalayan climbers of Polish Himalayan expeditions, which were peerless. Though they had no gear have repeatedly achieved the impossible. (Krzysztof Wielicki climbed in welding  Behind the scenes of one of the most glasses) or money for their expeditions difficult Himalayan expeditions in world (the cost of one expedition at the time was history. 200,000 dollars, while the average annual  Polish Himalayan climbers were peerless salary in Poland was 500 dollars), their in the 1980s – this book tells the secrets of only limit was their imagination – and this their success. was the stuff of legend.  This year marks the fortieth anniversary This book by Cichy and Trybalski is a tale of the first winter ascent of Mount of tackling the Himalayas in a different Everest. epoch, when it was a challenge only  Leszek Cichy, a co-author of the book, the best could take. Today, when amateurs was a member of this memorable line up to conquer the summit, it is expedition – he tells many stories and difficult to conceive the huge sacrifice and anecdotes of the events, some of them heroism of those feats, and without this, previously untold. we cannot understand the passion that  Many technical details of Himalayan drove those people on. Luckily, we still climbing – a description of how have their stories. the expedition was organized with all its

LESZEK CICHY TRYBALSKI PIOTR AS IF IT WERE NOT EVEREST… NIE BYŁ EVEREST… GDYBY TO Target Market Readers of biographies of athletes and NON-FICTION travellers. date of publication: 2020 Lovers of mountain literature. pages: 444 Those interested in reportage and non­‑fiction.

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 96 [email protected] 97 [email protected] Andrzej Chwalba (b. 1949) – historian and essayist, professor at the Jagiellonian University, vice-chairman of the Polish Historical Society, expert on 19th and 20th century history, the history of Kraków and Russo-Polish relations. His oeuvre includes more than 20 books including A History of Poland 1795–1918, Kraków during the Occupation and Europe’s Suicide. He is a member of many historical commissions and institutions, both Polish and international.

Wojciech Harpula (b. 1978) – journalist and columnist, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gazeta Krakowska, winner of the Maciej Szumowski Prize for newspaper reportage, passionate history enthusiast. He has previously talked with Andrzej Chwalba about the Points of History, an alternative history of Poland. ANDRZEJ CHWALBA, WOJCIECH HARPULA fot. Janusz Jabłoński fot. Janusz

Andrzej Chwalba Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 98 [email protected] Keynote what would have been the consequences Startling, fascinating and inspiring of the Ukrainians becoming a third and journeys following possible alternative equal partner in the Polish-Lithuanian courses of Polish history narrated by Commonwealth and what might have the author of a number of best-selling happened had the majority of Poles been history books. Protestants rather than Catholics. For each specific set of events the authors describe Selling Points the main players and then review the other  The author is a well-known, highly possible historical outcomes. They ponder regarded and widely read historian. over the potential consequences of  Sweeping range, visionary insight, these alternatives for both the past and and captivating intellectual play. the present day. This book raises pertinent  An astute and adventurous examination questions about whether it was inevitable of history which allows the reader to that Poland experienced the historical become acquainted with and comprehend catastrophes it suffered or whether there Poland and the Poles. had been opportunities for the country  The theme of alternative versions inhabited by Poles to become more of history is fashionable and arouses powerful and more prosperous. While the imagination. dealing with these questions the authors Description show that decisions taken centuries ago Chwalba and Harpula have selected influence Poles’ current identity and 10 turning points in Polish history where the state of the country they live in. a single decision or other circumstances Changing Tracks is a historiosophic determined fundamentally important deliberation but at the same time it is matters. In an absolutely fascinating enthralling entertainment. Its broad conversation the authors consider sweep, the extensive information scenarios in Polish history which did not presented and the academic precision actually take place but in all probability contribute to a mental journey following could have done and so they show that alternative outcomes in Polish history chance occurrences influence the fate which engages and fascinates the reader. of a nation. For example they analyse Target Market what would have happened if Poland and History enthusiasts who like

ANDRZEJ CHWALBA, WOJCIECH HARPULA CHANGING TRACKS. ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS OF POLISH HISTORY POLSKI HISTORIE DZIEJÓW. ALTERNATYWNE ZWROTNICE Lithuania had not entered into a union, unconventional approaches to history. NON-FICTION Readers interested in Poland as a country. date of publication: 2019 pages: 352

Over 9000 copies sold Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 100 [email protected] 101 [email protected] Keynote and unusual insight into the mechanisms Poland and Russia are joined by centuries of history. of complex and brutal history. In this  The authors are outstanding figures, compelling conversation, a historian and household names in Polish scholarship and a journalist focus on the knottiest points social life. of this relationship – what would the world Description look like if certain events had gone It would be hard to imagine two other differently? countries so helplessly entangled in one Selling Points another’s histories as Poland and Russia.  An insightful and absorbing analysis For 500 years, the two nations have been of 500 tempestuous years of Polish and endlessly grappling with one another Russian history. for dominance in Central and Eastern  The book takes the form of Europe – and this conflict has meant ups conversations, which makes the content and downs for either side. Prominent easy, accessible, and natural to read. historian Andrzej Chwalba and leading  Though this book is highly erudite and Polish journalist Wojciech Harpula discuss scrupulously academic, it is a pleasure to the complicated travails of Poland and its read, as the authors avoid academic jargon. big neighbour to the East, with special  The perfect introduction to attention to the places which could understanding the history of Central and potentially have been turning points. Eastern Europe. What if Polish King Władysław IV Vasa  A book full of fascinating speculations had become tsar? What would the world and historical fantasy – when it comes be like today if, in 1920, Piłsudski had not to the pivotal events, the authors boldly managed to halt the Red Army’s march craft visions of alternative histories of west? If in postwar Europe, the Iron the world. Curtain were to have been carved out  A new and revolutionary way of talking differently? Poland-Russia: The History of about the past, in which it is not single an Obsession, an Obsession with History events or figures that play the main roles, is not just a trove of knowledge about but deep, centuries-long processes. the eastern part of our continent, it is  The perspective of alternate histories of also a scintillating display of the historical Poland and Russia provides fascinating imagination. It is a real treat for lovers of ANDRZEJ CHWALBA, WOJCIECH HARPULA OF POLAND-RUSSIA: THE HISTORY AN OBSESSION, OBSESSION WITH HISTORY OBSESJI, OBSESJA HISTORII POLSKA-ROSJA: HISTORIA history, both traditional and alternative. NON-FICTION Target Market date of publication: 2021 Readers of historical biographies and pages: 452 monographs. Readers of history books and historical novels, including those that offer an alternative vision of history. People interested in Polish history and politics.

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 102 [email protected] 103 [email protected] Agnieszka Gajewska (b. 1977) is a literary scholar and an academic lecturer. She took her MA at the Faculty of Polish Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, defended her PhD at the same school, and now continues her academic career. She is the head of the Feminist Criticism Workshop. She has written a very well-received title devoted to little-known Jewish motifs in the work of Stanisław Lem: Annihilation and the Stars: The Past in the Prose of Stanisław Lem (2016). She is a serious scholar and widely recognized, particularly in Lem studies. AGNIESZKA GAJEWSKA

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 104 [email protected] Keynote  Gajewska is an academic scholar who An in-depth and comprehensive biography is noted in university circles and among of one of the twentieth century’s most respected authorities on Lem’s work. important writers – a visionary, essayist, Description and prose writer, discovered by generation Stanisław Lem was surely one of the most after generation, and not just by fans of important and fascinating figures in science fiction. world twentieth-century literature. Selling Points A visionary, often called a genius,  A tale of one of the twentieth century’s a penetrating observer of contemporary most fascinating writers. life, and a sharp essayist. At the same  The first comprehensive biography of time, he was a mysterious figure who Stanisław Lem – the author has gained was most reluctant to divulge stories of access to his private family archives, his life. Scholar Agnieszka Gajewska has, documents that have been jealously however, managed to create the writer’s guarded. first complete biography – incorporating  The book also explores writer’s prewar not only his remarkable work, but biography in detail, his life in Lwów, also numerous encrypted (and mostly about which little has been told. She also unfamiliar) contexts, such as his childhood consults records held in the archive of and early youth in Lwów, his complicated the Polish Secret Services. family relationships, and his unexpected  This book is an interesting tale of Lem’s intellectual friendships in postwar Cracow. upbringing – the assimilated Jewish The biographer has gained access to intelligentsia, prewar Lwów, and its unique never-before-seen archives and documents intellectual and cultural atmosphere. (including those from his Lwów period and  The biographer has found an original a communist-era Secret-Services report), way of depicting Lem and the people who giving us a multidimensional picture of surrounded and shaped him – his family, Lem, a man firmly grounded in his epoch. friends, and the Polish intellectual elite Target Market before and after World War II. This allows Readers of Lem’s novels. her to grasp many important and elusive Readers of science-fiction novels. contexts for his work. Those interested in Polish history.

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Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 106 [email protected] 107 [email protected] Kamil Janicki (b. 1987) is a writer and journalist, the author of bestselling titles covering the most interesting parts of Polish and European history. He studied history at the Jagiellonian University, and his passion is for interwar Poland, but also the Polish Middle Ages and the Jagiellonian epoch. His books have reached a combined print run of over 200,000 copies. He works with the most important Polish magazines, including Fokus Historia and Newsweek, and the Onet.pl web site. KAMIL JANICKI fot. …

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 108 [email protected] 109 [email protected] Keynote key decisions. The future of the dynasty The story of women without whom depended on them. An outstanding the course of medieval European history historian known for his engaging style, would have gone quite differently. Janicki shows us the fifteenth century Betrayals, alliances and courtly intrigues – from an entirely new angle. His book all the best things about history books. is a tale of tempestuous, behind­‑the­ ‑scenes politics, where gender ceased to be Selling Points important – only effectiveness counted.  A story about powerful and ambitious And the women tied to Jagiełło were not women in the late Middle Ages. to be denied.  The birth of modern Europe from a new perspective. Target Market  The story of the Władysław II Jagiełło Lovers of history books. and dawn of the Jagiellonian Dynasty – Readers of the biographies of great one of the most powerful in the history of politicians and rulers. Europe.  A light read filled with humour and verve, a history book to read all in one go.  Intrigues, betrayals and alliances weave through this book as in the best of novels. Description Władysław II Jagiełło was a ruler of Poland and Lithuania who created one of the largest dynasties in modern Europe. His mighty kingdom, which for centuries would be decisive in the fate of the central and eastern parts of our continent, would not have come to be were it not for four incredible women, the king’s successive wives. Contrary to popular opinion, women of the late Middle Ages often wielded great power. It was not

KAMIL JANICKI THE LADIES OF WŁADYSŁAW II JAGIEŁŁO DAMY WŁADYSŁAWA JAGIEŁŁY always official, and yet they made many NON-FICTION date of publication: 2021 pages: 456

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 110 [email protected] 111 [email protected] Anna Janko (b. 1957) – one of the best contemporary Polish women writers, a poet and literary critic. She has written several volumes of poetry and the novels The Match Girl and Passion According to Saint Hanka. Janko was nominated for the NIKE Literary Prize in 2001 and 2013 and the ANGELUS Central European Literature Award in 2008; she has also won many awards and literary prizes such as the City of Gdańsk Book of the Year in 1981 for her volume of poetry A Candle for the Devil, the Dresden Independent Writers’ Society Prize in 1993 for her poetic oeuvre, a nomination for the Hermenegilda Kociubińska Silver Inkwell Literary Prize in 2008, and a nomination for the Cogito Media Prize for her novel The Match Girl in 2008. In 2018. Her widely acclaimed memoir entitled The Small Annihilation was published in 2015 and its translation rights were sold to six countries. Her first book for children – Oleś and Mrs Róża was published in 2018. ANNA JANKO fot. Agnieszka Herman

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 112 [email protected] Keynote The buildings were burnt down; “It takes its place within a very important This is a disturbing exploration of another the inhabitants shot to death. All that European trend of exploring the tragedy person’s memories – the memories of remained among the charred ruins was of the Second World War in a spirit of the author’s own mother. It is a singularly one house, a few adults and several understanding and openness to dialogue, personal story which arose in connection children. rather than of rivalry in relation to victims with historical world events. Among them was nine-year-old Terenia and war crimes”. Over 19,000 Ferenc, Anna Janko’s mother. The little Robert Traba, Gazeta Wyborcza Selling Points copies sold girl saw the Germans murdering her  The author has won many prizes and “Janko has masterfully combined her family. This brutal image was to stay with awards, among them the award of the New mother’s memories, accounts from other her throughout the years she spent in Books monthly for the best book of 2015. members of the family who could tell their a children’s home, never allowing her to  This book has been very well received by own versions of the story, and references forget… readers and literary critics. to academic texts and essays with her own It was as if I had two mothers because of it  It is a singularly personal story which testimony about inheriting such memories all. The first was an adult woman, whom arose in connection with historical world and facing the burden and restrictions I missed when she went to the shops, whom events. they impose”. I feared when she lost her temper, who filled Bernadetta Darska, Onet.pl Description me with pride because no-one in our whole War never dies out… block had a prettier lady for a mother. I also “An exceptional book. Exceptional not This is the latest book by the highly- had another mother: a little girl, whose just because we believe the author when rated writer and poet Anna Janko. parents had died in the war, who was still she speaks of her ‘genetic trauma’ due to An unsettling, very modern appraisal terrified and lonely, who had once known her powerful language which conveys her of the trauma suffered by the second hunger and been forced to work for a nasty sadness, anger and goading irony, which generation – fear has left its mark on their aunt, the sort who beat her and made her verges on cynicism… Emotional truth lives. carry pails of water up the hill. For her emanates from this book”. I have taken your story, your apocalypse, going to the children’s home after the war Juliusz Kurkiewicz, Gazeta Wyborcza away from you, mother. You fed it to me when was – what a paradox – the best possible “This book argues strongly against I was little, a grain at a time, little by little, good fortune. This little-girl-mother would the view that instances of war-related so it would not poison me all at once. But often lie down on the divan in the middle of trauma can be ranked in a hierarchy”. the grains mounted up. Your story is in my the day and cry for no reason. [excerpt from Piotr Kofta, Wprost blood… the book] Sochy village, near Zamość, south- Anna Janko’s The Small Annihilation is not “As with Svetlana Alexievich’s reportage, in eastern Poland, 1 June 1943. It only took just another tragic family story retrieved this book war is shown not only as a tragic

ANNA JANKO THE SMALL ANNIHILATION MAŁA ZAGŁADA a few hours to annihilate the village. from storage where it had been gathering episode in history, but as a living memory, dust since the Second World War. The book which even after many years puts us on NON-FICTION gives us a powerful, entirely modern our guard as a danger which could recur”. date of publication: 2015 treatment of the trauma experienced by Aleksandra Żelazińska, Polityka the second generation, stigmatised by pages: 264 Target market fear. The account of the brutal, wartime rights sold: Loyal readers of Anna Janko’s work. destruction of the Polish village, told in World English (World Editions) Readers interested in current affairs, a naturalistic style, is a starting point for Croatia (Zagrebačka Naklada) history, psychology and sociology. ENGLISH describing a state of ethical and existential Czech Republic (PANT) Readers who like essays, reportage vulnerability. France (Noir sur Blanc) AND FRENCH and literary non‑iction. Hungary (Magyar Naplo) EDITIONS Janko’s prose is as sophisticated and Macedonia (Muza) challenging as ever and the subject AVAILABLE matter is more demanding than usual. It combines a contemporary story with disturbing events from the past, and narration with reportage.

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 114 [email protected] 115 [email protected] Anna Kamińska (b. 1980) is a journalist and a writer, the author of the much- lauded biography of a legend of world Himalaism, Wanda Rutkiewicz (Wanda: A Tale of the Power of Life and Death, 2017), and Simona Kossak (Simona: The Tale of the Unusual Life of Simona Kossak), Poland’s first hippie and environmentalist. She has contributed to many important Polish newspapers, including Wysokie Obcasy (Gazeta Wyborcza) and Zwierciadło. She has also worked as an editor for many television programs. Simona brought her a nomination for the prestigious Wiesław Kazanecki Literary Award of the Mayor of the City of Białystok. All of her books become instant bestsellers in Poland. ANNA KAMI N SKA Fot. MagdalenaFot. Wiśniewska-Krasińska

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 116 [email protected] Keynote of many climbers. She perished in 1992 The biography of one of Poland’s bravest while tackling the peak at Kangchenjunga. women, a Himalayist and the first The last person to see her was the Mexican European woman to conquer Mount Himalayist Carlos Carsolio. Descending 80,000 Everest. Her life is a string of inspirations, from the peak, he met Rutkiewicz at an copies sold while her tragic death in the mountains altitude of over 8,200 meters, determined remains a mystery to this day. to wait out the night and renew her attack on the summit. Did she make it? This we Selling Points shall probably never learn. Although she  The biography of the most important was officially declared dead, many legends woman in world Himalaya climbing. grew around her death – some claim that  A tale of a powerful, indomitable woman she survived, but decided to spend the rest who achieved great success in a male of her life in a Buddhist monastery. world. Rutkiewicz was a colorful figure, a woman  A story full of mysteries, legends, myths, of limitless strength and courage, and not and dramatic twists and turns. only in climbing – in her everyday life she  This book shows not only a lopsided also was independent and indomitable. battle with the elements, but also She managed to achieve great worldwide the complex and challenging male- success in a male-dominated discipline. To dominated world of mountain climbing. this end she had to consciously renounce  The author of this biography is one of many things, including a family life. Poland’s most famous journalists of recent She was famous for her determination years. and passion, which took precedent over Description everything else in her life, leaving her A book written by an outstanding Polish vulnerable to criticism from her friends biographer, Anna Kamińska, telling and loved ones. the story of Wanda Rutkiewicz, a legend Kamińska’s book is also the tale of of world Himalayism. Rutkiewicz was Wanda Rutkiewicz’s difficult childhood, the first European woman (and the third the tragic death of her brother, her father’s woman period) to conquer Mount Everest. abandonment of the family, the cruel She was also the first woman on K2 – crime committed against Wanda’s father the peak regarded as the most difficult that cast a shadow over her youth, her

ANNA KAMI N SKA OF LIFE WANDA. A TALE THE STORY AND DEATH. OF WANDA RUTKIEWICZ I ŚMIERCI. WANDA. OPOWIEŚĆ O SILE ŻYCIA WANDY RUTKIEWICZ HISTORIA to conquer, one which claimed the lives love for the mountains, and her uneasy relations and conflicts with the Polish NON-FICTION mountain-climbing community. But date of publication: 2017 it also deals with her other passions – pages: 480 her fascination for motor vehicles, her rights sold: participation in car rallies, and her love for Spain (Desnivel) making films and mountain expeditions. Lithuania (Plunge Municipal Ultimately, it is also the tale of a tragic Public Library) love for a man who also lost his life to the mountains. Target market Lovers of biographies of athletes and

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Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 118 [email protected] 119 [email protected] Keynote Orthodox, Protestants, and Jews. A journalistic tale of Białowieża – a village Outsiders who have fled the big cities in the east of Poland whose mysterious come to this little “tourist town”, as do and ancient forest gives it an ominous scientists and students fascinated by feel, like Twin Peaks. Its inhabitants the diversity of life in the forest. are real characters – a multicultural and In Białowieża a person might be multi‑religious society. a forest ranger, with a brother who is a scientist and an acquaintance who is Selling Points an eco‑terrorist. The mutual and often  A multicultural and multi-religious conflicting interests of the inhabitants society in a small village, with overlapping and the arrivals create unique stories traditions and customs. with a touch of the absurd. These go  Inhabitants living close to nature and in hand‑in‑hand with tales of people who an atmosphere of old lore. kept bears in their barns to protect  New arrivals seeking their place in them during the war, of the Nazis’ secret the world. experiments on the European bison, or of  Ecology and natural science clashing a UFO sighted over the forest. with private business. The mood of a thriller, a fairy-tale forest,  Białowieża is a place which, owing to its and mysterious family chronicles create natural resources, has the most scientists a place full of human, historical, and per square meter in Poland, and perhaps natural oddities. even in Europe.  A bestselling author, much admired by Target market Polish readers. Readers of reportage, people interested in  The author writes for Poland’s most the environment, and in the ties between popular papers – Wysokie Obcasy the natural and the human world. People (Gazeta Wyborcza), Duży Format, and interested in the fringes of cultures, Rzeczpospolita. a place where East meets West. Lovers of the Białowieska Forest and its mysterious Description aura. The town of Białowieża is situated in a clearing in the Białowieska Forest; it is a melting pot of cultures, inhabited

ANNA KAMIN SKA WHISPERS IN THE BIAŁOWIEŻA. FROM THE FOREST STORIES Z PUSZCZY BIAŁOWIEŻĄ SZEPTEM. HISTORIE BIAŁOWIESKIEJ by Poles and Belarussians, Catholics, NON-FICTION date of publication: 2017 pages: 250

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Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 120 [email protected] 121 [email protected] Keynote between raising her daughter Marianna The tale of a unique and powerful and conquering the highest peaks. woman who was a trailblazer in the high A beautiful and charismatic woman with mountains – and not only for other an iron will and constitution, she proved women. to the world and to herself that Himalaism has no gender. She perished tragically Selling Points just below the summit of K2, where her  The biography of a little-known, but grave lies to this day. Her biography, very important figure for Polish and world written by one of Poland’s finest reporters, Himalaism. is a remarkable story of passion and  The tale of a strong woman who followed overcoming barriers, for which one her dreams in spite of everything. sometimes pays the highest price.  The story of the emancipation of women in a profession that was considered male Target Market for many decades. Lovers of mountaineering.  The author is considered one of Poland’s Readers of biographies. finest biographers and journalists. People seeking stories about strong and charismatic women. Description The life of Halina Krüger-Syrokomska (1938–1982) is tailor-made for a moving film. She came from a Jewish family and, as a child, miraculously survived the bombing of her house – the collapsing walls created a “tent” over her crib. Later, as a young woman in the early 1960s, she fell in love with the mountains and made them her life, for better or for worse. She was not only among Poland’s leading female Tatra and Alpine climbers, but also one of the world’s foremost Himalaists. An art historian by education, she worked as an editor at the Youth Publishing Agency

ANNA KAMI N SKA HALINA. THERE ARE NO WOMEN LIKE HER TODAY. MOUNTAINEER ABOUT THE HIMALAYAN A TALE HALINA KRÜGER-SYROKOMSKA KOBIET. HALINA. DZIŚ JUŻ NIE MA TAKICH HALINIE KRÜGER ­ OPOWIEŚĆ O HIMALAISTCE ‑ SYROKOMSKIEJ in Warsaw, but she in fact divided her life NON-FICTION date of publication: 2019 pages: 470

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Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 122 [email protected] 123 [email protected] Marek Kornat (b. 1971) is a historian and a professor affiliated with the leading academic centres in Poland, including the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of History in Warsaw and the European Network of Memory and Solidarity. He works with the Nowa Europa Wschodnia bimonthly. He is an authority on Polish foreign policy in the interwar period, a Sovietologist, winner of the Klio Award in 2003 for his Poland 1939 and the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact, as well as the Jerzy Giedroyć Award and the Visegrad Award.

Mariusz Wołos (b. 1968) is a historian, professor at the Pedagogical University in Krakow and the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of History in Warsaw and the Association internationale d’histoire contemporaine de l’Europe, with its headquarters in Strasbourg and Geneva. He has written over 100 academic publications (books, collections of documents, articles, reviews, bios) in Polish, Russian, French and English. In 2013, Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers released his book On Piłsudski, Dmowski and the May Coup: Soviet Diplomacy toward Poland during the Political Crisis of 1925–26. MAREK KORNAT, MAREK KORNAT, MARIUSZ WOŁOS

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 124 [email protected] Keynote Stalin, he also tried to build a strong A brilliant strategist, or the author position for Poland in the world. He was of Poland’s military disaster of 1939? the author of the famous words: ‘There is Józef Beck, the Minister of Foreign only one thing in the life of men, nations Affairs before World War Two, and states that is invaluable. That thing remains a controversial figure, stoking is honour!’ Was abandoning peace at all the imaginations of historians and many costs indeed the correct decision? Could others. the fate of Europe turned out different if it were not for the pride and honour Selling Points of interwar Poland? Józef Beck was an  A biography of one of the most colourful uncommonly colourful figure – a sharp yet Polish politicians of the twentieth century. ruthless politician who was also a regular  Great politics interwoven with piquant at the finest salons of his day. He was social scandals and the colourful lives of at the heart of scandals, both social and the pre-World-War-Two elite. diplomatic, and became a symbol of  A historical panorama of Europe of the reality of the time, which was snuffed the 1930s. out forever in 1939. His biography is not  The description of a fascinating and only the tale of a remarkable man, but also extraordinarily complicated diplomatic the history of Europe told from an unusual game Poland played, squeezed between perspective. Stalin and Hitler.  Depicts the Third Reich’s path to Target Market invading Poland, step by step, up to Lovers of history books. 1 September, 1939, the day that actually Readers of the great politicians’ began World War Two. biographies.  The authors are great authorities on the subject, but also know how to popularise history. Description Apart from Józef Piłsudski, he was the most important Polish politician before World War Two. In the 1930s,

MAREK KORNAT, MAREK KORNAT, MARIUSZ WOŁOS JO ZEF BECK. BIOGRAPHY BIOGRAFIA JÓZEF BECK. forced to navigate between Hitler and NON-FICTION date of publication: 2021 pages: 1152

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 126 [email protected] 127 [email protected] Angelika Kuźniak (b. 1974) is a biographer, reporter, and the author of many widely-read books about famous artists: Marlene (2009), Papusza (2013), Stryjeńska: Devil-Sent (2015), The Black Angel: The Tale of Ewa Demarczyk (2014), and the co-author of two pieces of journalism in a book nominated for the NIKE Award in 2008: Circumference of the Head. She has been honored with the Grand Press award on three occasions, and has several times been nominated for the Polish-German Journalism Award. She received the Barbara Łopieńska Award for her interview with Nobel-Prize winner Herta Müller in 2010. In 2014, she took home the Inspiration of the Year Prize in the Melchior Polish Journalists’ Competition. In 2016, she was nominated for Poland’s most important literary award, the Nike. In 2019, she published a widely-read biography, Boznańska: Non Finito, telling the story of an important, though largely forgotten Polish artist. ANGELIKA KUZNIAK fot. Małgorzata Golik

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 128 [email protected] Keynote This portrait by Angelika Kuźniak is less An original portrait of one of the most a biography than a compelling tale of important European painters in history – the life of a unique woman. Scandalous, a brave, intriguing, and powerful woman. charismatic, and bold, she knew how to stand up for her rights. Boznańska wrote Selling Points in a letter: “Painting is my happiness,  A tale of one of the most important I long for no other, and when I will be European painters in history. unable to paint I should end my life”. We  The story of an incredible artist, whose see the same passion in her biographer. art was her life.  The portrait of a charismatic and original Target Market woman, who knew how to stand her Readers of biographers. ground even when the odds were against Art lovers. her.  The marvelous climate of the French Fin de siècle.  The author is a well-known and awarded journalist and biographer. Description Olga Boznańska needs no introduction. She was one of Europe’s leading female painters, who managed to create her own, unique style, and entirely devoted her life to art. Born in Kraków, she spent

NON FINITO a long time wandering the world, finally settling in 1898 in the capital of art – Paris. Boznańska was a child of her epoch. Her avant-garde view of the world and society was a perfect match for Paris’ Fin de siècle atmosphere and let her spread her wings. She was undoubtedly the greatest woman painter of her day.

ANGELIKA KU Z NIAK BOZNAN SKA. NON FINITO BOZNAŃSKA. NON-FICTION date of publication: 2019 pages: 352

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Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 130 [email protected] 131 [email protected] Keynote he wore it first to his wedding and then A sharp and compelling combination in his coffin. One of the book’s female of journalism and essay – a series of protagonists says: “A person is born to die monologues by people planning their own and is dying to live, that’s the truth”, which deaths. Despite appearances, this is a tale is a fair summary of the book as a whole. not of death, but of life. Kuźniak, an outstanding Polish reporter and biographer, presents a collection of Selling Points tales of people advanced in age, reconciled  Original human stories written in a vivid to death and eager to discuss it. These and colorful language – each one from are mainly women who have long been an utterly different perspective. There awaiting their time, thoroughly preparing are soldiers, insurgents, actors, manual themselves for the event, wondering workers, and many others. what to put into the coffin, what kind  A very original approach and an of coffin it will be, and what the funeral insightful look at departure and dying. itself will look like. They are unafraid of  A brilliant balancing-act between genres: death, sometimes they are even longing biography, interview, and essay. The result for it. These are stories of people who have is a highly original and unique work, one gone through a lot – former insurgents, might even say a new non-fiction prose fugitives of war, often miraculously spared genre, resembling the approach of Svetlana the conflagrations. Her interlocutors are Alexievich. also lonely people who have often already  A rare example of a positive tale about buried their friends and family. Yet a key passing away, death, and grieving. facet of this book is that it is not sad;  Moving testimonies of people who, there are hints of melancholy, fatigue, and owing to their advanced ages, witnessed disappointment, yet the prevailing tone some of the finest and the most harrowing is joy. In a paradoxical way, it is a hymn moments of the twentieth century. to life.  The author is a recognized journalist and biographer. Target Market Readers of biographies. Description Those interested in history told from an The titular “sorochka” is the name individual perspective. of a traditional Ukrainian shirt that Lovers of original essays.

ANGELIKA KU Z NIAK THE SOROCHKA SOROCZKA the author’s aunt sewed for her husband – NON-FICTION date of publication: 2020 pages: 152

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 132 [email protected] 133 [email protected] Sławomir Leśniewski (b. 1959) is a popular historian, the author of over a dozen books, including: A Handbook of Polish and Lithuanian Hetmans (1992), The History of Mysteries (2007), The Polish Army under Napoleon (2008), Prince Józef: Chief and Lover (2012), Mata Hari: Betrayed by One and All (2013) and The Deluge 1655–60: A Time of Glory and Disgrace. He has published his work in important and influential periodicals (Polityka, Rzeczpospolita and Focus). He is not a historian who writes academic dissertations, but a man who is truly in love with the past, and who loves sharing his passion with others. That is why his books read like the most compelling detective novels. SŁAWOMIR LES NIEWSKI fot. archiwum autora fot. archiwum

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 134 [email protected] Keynote  The author has written many bestselling The incredible story of the last great history books. king of Poland – a rabble-rouser and Description womaniser, but also a shrewd politician. Few kings of seventeenth-century Europe An in-depth study of the last glory days of could compare with z John III Sobieski – the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. not only in terms of his ability to rule Selling Points the country, his diplomatic skills and  A remarkably colourful and enticing his military talent, but also his highly panorama of seventeenth-century Europe. colourful biography. A carouser and  The tale of one of Poland’s most womaniser in his youth, step by step he important rulers. matured to become one of the greatest  An insightful and dashing study of rulers of the Kingdom of Poland. With his the twilight of Poland’s glory days. customary verve and aplomb, Leśniewski  Owing to its succulent language and shows his path to the throne, laden with literary talent, Leśniewski’s book reads like intrigues and turbulent affairs, and his the best adventure novels. later vicissitudes in the tempestuous and  The author does not shy from bellicose seventeenth century. The Lion controversial, sometimes even Who Cried is the tale of a watershed revolutionary interpretations of history, moment in the history of Poland and casting new light on many facts that had Europe – the twilight of an old epoch once seemed obvious. and the birth of a new one, which turned  The protagonists are powerful and out to be so tragic for Poland. Finally, unique women on whom very much it is the story of the people who shaped depends. the reality of the time – the politicians,  A story recounted in a colourful and magnates and bishops, but also full-blooded language, not through dry, the remarkable women to whom Sobieski academic facts. owed so much.  A book built around original Target Market documents – journals, diaries and letters – Lovers of history books, especially those providing a special look into the spirit of that popularise the history of Europe the times. (e.g. Norman Davies).

SŁAWOMIR LES NIEWSKI THE LION WHO CRIED: JOHN III SOBIESKI ZAPŁAKAŁ SOBIESKI. LEW, KTÓRY Fans of non-fiction and reportage. Those interested in the history of Poland FICTION and Central Europe. date of publication: 2021 pages: 440

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 136 [email protected] 137 [email protected] Roma Ligocka (b. 1938) is a Polish writer and painter of Jewish descent. She was born in Cracow, to the Libing family, and during the war adopted the Ligocka name in the Cracow ghetto. After the war, she lived for many years in Poland, working as a costume and set designer in numerous European theaters and operas, and in film and television, after which she immigrated to the West, where she began a show business career. Watching Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, she recognized herself as one of the child protagonists – a girl dressed in a red coat. This experience inspired her to write a bestselling autobiographical novel, The Girl in the Red Coat (translated into twenty-two languages, film adaptation rights sold to Hollywood), into which she put her memoirs from the war period, but also from the 1950s and 60s in Cracow’s artistic milieu. Among the protagonists was her cousin, Roman Polański. She is also the author of novels including A Woman Traveling (2002), Just Me (2004), and four volumes of articles: The Acquaintance in the Mirror (2006), All for Love (2007), Sensitivity and Indifference (2009), The Moon over Taormina (2011), and The Good Child (2012). Her The Rose: Pictures and Words (2010) is a beautiful guide to her painting, published as an

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Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 138 [email protected] Selling points is the real tale of a generation broken by  The Girl in the Red Coat – Roma Ligocka’s the war. world bestseller “This marvellous and compelling story is  A book translated into twenty-two a tribute to all those children overwhelmed languages. Read by over a million people by horror, injustice, and politics they around the world cannot understand, and for which they are Description not responsible”. The inspiration to write this brilliantly Thomas Keanally, author of Schindler’s List received book was the girl in the red coat “In Ligocka’s fascinating book, in the film Schindler’s List, in whom Roma the recognized artist, and set and costume Ligocka recognized herself. She took designer, Roman Polański’s cousin, faces a child’s perspective to describe all up to her memories, those of a young the painful experiences she had struggled Polish Jew during World War II (..). A book to forget: her childhood in the ghetto, that became a bestseller abroad, and the fear, humiliation, and the death of should be purchased for both public and loved ones. We also learn of her fate academic libraries”. after the war: games with her cousin, Library Review Roman Polański, and her friend, Ryszard Horowitz, her fleeting fascination for “Ligocka’s book is not a simple journal of communism, the world of Krakow’s life in the Krakow ghetto and of hiding Bohemia, her friendship with Piotr outside of the ghetto. It is an astonishing Skrzynecki, her numerous romances, and portrait of the girl that remains in finally, her immigration and career in show the maturing Roma, the little girl who business. would not leave Roma when she was She reveals her long struggle with more grown up. The Girl in the Red Coat the depression resulting from wartime takes its place among those children of trauma, her addiction to medication, and the Holocaust titles as Hanna Krall’s her long road to rehabilitation. The Tenant and Michał Głowiński’s Black This book will leave no one indifferent. Seasons, telling us something truly new In reading it, one would like to have about the human experience”. the comforting awareness that this is Małgorzata Baranowska, Gazeta Wyborcza only literary fiction, yet, unfortunately, it

ROMA LIGOCKA THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT PŁASZCZYKU W CZERWONYM DZIEWCZYNKA “A moving document. These childhood memories pack a real punch”. NON-FICTION Glamour, Favourite Books 2001 Date of first publication: Target market 2002, numerous re-editions For readers of memoirs, for those pages: 462 interested in the Holocaust experience. Rights available: World, excl. France, Germany, United Kingdom

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 140 [email protected] 141 [email protected] Keynote with a married man, which makes her Terrifying and painfully sincere feel betrayed. Spying on her mother, she autobiographical prose by the author of discovers the terrifying yet fascinating 30,000 The Girl in the Red Coat, a written account sensual and physical side of love. Her copies sold of an incredibly difficult coming-of-age mother’s new relationship does not end period – experiences of love, sexuality, and happily, however – the social pressure is death. so great that the woman attempts suicide several times. It all turns out to be too Selling points much for the sensitive teenaged girl.  Another episode in a remarkable She herself begins to contemplate death, autobiographical series, by the author resulting in her growing anorexia. With of one of the most important novels of brutal and disarming sincerity, Ligocka wartime trauma and life in a new, postwar speaks of the most intimate experiences of world. her life. The only relief from the nightmare  A very difficult story of an she experiences (and the reader along extraordinarily intense mother-daughter with her) is reading the prewar journal of relationship. her grandmother, Anna Abrahamerowa,  A wide panorama of the prewar and describing the colorful and carefree Jewish postwar society and customs of Jewish life in Krakow. With this novel the author artists and middle class. of The Girl in the Red Coat again proves that  A remarkable and painfully sincere she is the master of painfully hypnotic description of a struggle with anorexia and autobiographical prose. depression. Target market Description Readers of Roma Ligocka’s novels. Another installment of compelling Readers of ambitious psychological autobiographical prose by Roma Ligocka. women’s prose and dramas. This time around, the “girl in the red A novel comparable to other outstanding coat” shares her memories from her novels describing mother-daughter teenage years. This is the story of an relationships released over the past year: incredible, intimate, but also very difficult Brit Bennett’s The Mothers and Deborah relationship between a mother and Levy’s Hot Milk. daughter. The teenaged girl discovers that

ROMA LIGOCKA THE GOOD CHILD DOBRE DZIECKO her mother is having a passionate affair NON-FICTION date of publication: 2012 pages: 294 Rights available: World, excl. France, Germany, United Kingdom

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 142 [email protected] 143 [email protected] Keynote Description The latest novel by the bestselling author The late 1950s in Cracow were a time of of The Girl in the Red Coat. This is another political and social thaw – after the dark installment of hypnotic autobiographical years of Stalinist terror there was a taste prose; this time the author recounts of freedom. The new generation whose the process of becoming an adult, childhood was spent during the war had the Bohemian atmosphere of the late come to mature. Ligocka was among these 1950s in Krakow, and how she became an young rebels who expected something artist. extraordinary to come of the new times. Her generation and crowd was buzzing Selling points with energy and ideas – cultural life  The latest autobiographical novel by in Cracow was flourishing as never one of Poland’s most important writers, before. Green Apples, the latest novel by the bestselling author of The Girl in the Red the author of The Girl in the Red Coat, is Coat. a story of growing up – of the problems  The next installment in the life of and dilemmas that come along with it, but a remarkable woman known to readers also the joys and the affirmations of life. from the author’s previous books, such as Conceived as a sequel to the bestselling the brilliant Good Child. Good Child, it describes a girl becoming  The novel does a splendid job of a woman – discovering love and sexuality, depicting a woman’s experience of but also grappling with a difficult mother, becoming an artist, as well as maturation, depression, and anorexia. This is a very rebuilding relations with her mother, intimate novel, describing the challenges beginning her first serious relationships and pain of maturing, while showing with men, and immersing herself in an a very broad and colorful panorama of intense social life. Cracow’s social, political, and cultural life,  The novel sketches a social and artistic and a Poland where modernity was in panorama of one of the most colorful and bloom. important periods of Polish twentieth­ ‑century culture, the post-Stalin Thaw of Target market the late 1950s. Readers of Roma Ligocka’s novels. Readers of ambitious psychological women’s prose and dramas. ROMA LIGOCKA DEAR ROMA DROGA ROMO Those interested in the history of European culture – this novel is also NON-FICTION a guide to the intellectual life of Poland date of publication: 2014 during the time. pages: 240 Rights available: World, excl. France, Germany, United Kingdom

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Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 144 [email protected] 145 [email protected] Keynote people forever – from the summer of 1938 The latest novel by the bestselling author to the summer of 1939. It was a strange of The Girl in the Red Coat. This time, year, full of tensions and anxieties, the author takes us back to the world of yet surprisingly ordinary – the calm her grandmother, in a fictionalized journal before the storm. Ligocka takes us to of 1938–1939. this odd time through the journal of her grandmother, Anna Abrahamerowa, Selling Points familiar to readers of The Good Child.  The latest book by one of Poland’s most This time the author is less portraying important writers – expected, as always, to her own traumas than reconstructing be a major literary event. the reality and painful experiences of her  This time Ligocka leaves her own grandmother, a fifty-year-old woman who biography behind to describe the last had to abandon everything from one day months before the outbreak of the war to the next and fight for survival – her through her grandmother’s eyes. own and her family’s. But before disaster  Her grandmother’s journals appeared struck, the world was operating normally – in her earlier books, making this an people loved and hated one another, they intriguing development in the family were full of hopes and anxieties, they history. worked hard and then went on vacation.  A remarkable testimonial of the history Ligocka applies incredible fidelity and of the Holocaust written from a highly sensitivity to the task of reconstructing individual, personal perspective. the reality of a prewar Cracow hanging  A tale of a world soon to be destroyed – on the precipice, comparing it to today’s a prewar, diverse, and multicultural pandemic crisis. This book was written Cracow, a life full of beauty and taste. during the global crisis, in isolation and  Offers an intriguing juxtaposition trepidation for the future: both her own between the fate of her grandmother and and the whole world’s. This is a moving the pandemic of 2020 – the author wrote tale about the power of will, determination this book in isolation and solitude, unsure and, in spite of everything, the hope for of what the next day would bring. a better future. Description Target Market The last year before the catastrophe Readers of Roma Ligocka’s novels.

ROMA LIGOCKA INEVITABLE. ANNAOF THE JOURNAL ABRAHAMEROWA ABRAHAMEROWEJ ANNY PAMIĘTNIK SIŁA RZECZY. that changed the destinies of millions of Readers of ambitious psychological women’s and dramatic prose. NON-FICTION Those interested in the history of date of publication: 2021 European culture. pages: 296 Those interested in biography writing, especially Holocaust testimonies.

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 146 [email protected] 147 [email protected] Andrzej Nowak (b. 1960) is a well ‑respected historian and journalist, scholar of soviet studies, head of the Department of Eastern European History at the Jagiellonian University, professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and member of the College of the Institute of National Remembrance. He has taught the history of Poland and Russia at foreign universities, including Harvard, Cambridge and Columbia University. He has participated in over one hundred academic conferences and congresses. Nowak is the author of over 30 books and roughly 200 articles and academic reviews, most of which are devoted to the history and politics of Poland and Russia. He has been awarded the Klio Prize twice (in 1995 for How to Crush the Russian Empire and in 2001 for Poland and Three Russias: A Study of the Eastern Policies of Józef Piłsudski). He has won the Rector’s Award of the Jagiellonian University for outstanding academic achievements three times (2009, 2010, 2011), as well as the Jerzy Giedroyc Award (2012). ANDRZEJ NOWAK fot. Andrzej Hulimka/Reporter

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 148 [email protected] Keynote operates – from the time of the Tsars up A bold and uncompromising analysis till Vladimir Putin. This time, however, of Poland’s most recent history and an he is chiefly focused on Poland, raising attempt to redefine its national identity. questions on the political and cultural identity of his homeland in the twenty- Selling Points first century. This volume collecting his  A penetrating historio-political analysis essays and conversations he has held of the sources of the present Polish with many outstanding Polish historians identity. and intellectuals breaks the basic and  An original panorama of Poland and seemingly obvious concepts down to Europe, casting new light on current their lowest denominators. Through this political events. intellectual vivisection, conducted with  A compendium of knowledge about finesse and verve, we can see the recent today’s Poland. history of Poland and Europe in an utterly  Ahe author is a great politician and new light. Professor Nowak’s book is journalist, famous for his insight and undoubtedly compulsory reading for uncompromising approach. anyone trying to understand the present  A book that will impress with its political situation in Poland, and wanting erudition, yet which is written in a simple a better understanding of the mechanisms and accessible manner, even for those with that govern History. little knowledge of the recent history of Poland and Central-Eastern Europe. Target Market Readers of history books. Description Those interested in contemporary Andrzej Nowak is known for his insight European politics. and dauntlessness in seeking historical truth. As an unchallenged expert in Eastern studies, he proved on more than one occasion in his early books that the history of Eastern Europe still holds many mysteries and unsolved questions. Through his erudition and in-depth research we can now better

ANDRZEJ NOWAK OF THE METAMORPHOSES RUSSIAN EMPIRE 1721–1921. ODES AND NATIONS GEOPOLITICS, 1721–1921. IMPERIUM ROSYJSKIEGO METAMORFOZY ODY I NARODY GEOPOLITYKA, understand how the Russian Empire NON-FICTION date of publication: 2018 pages: 460

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 150 [email protected] 151 [email protected] Keynote Target Market A well-respected historian poses bold Readers interested in the history of Poland questions and puts forward daring and the history of ideas. hypotheses on topics related to Polish Fans of essays on politics and history. identity and Poland’s position in the world. Fans of Andrzej Nowak’s books. Selling Points  The book was written by one of Poland’s most famous and highly-esteemed historians, often treated as a great authority in “right-wing” circles.  The book presents a cross-sectional view of the role of historical politics.  The book contains fascinating interviews with interesting people. Description About History not for Dummies contains two parts. The first part consists of cross‑sectional essays in which Nowak thoroughly analyses issues of Polish identity and evokes in various contexts the notions of patriotism, memory, betrayal and politics. In the second part, Nowak seeks answers to the questions he has posed together with his interviewees: Piotr Wandycz, Andrzej Sulima Kamiński, Roman Szporluk, Tomasz Łubieński, Andrzej Walicki, Henryk Samsonowicz and Andrzej Paczkowski. The result is a book that can play an important role in the contemporary debate on the function of historical politics. ANDRZEJ NOWAK FOR NOT ABOUT HISTORY DUMMIES. AN INVITATION TO A DEBATE NIE DLA IDIOTÓW. O HISTORII ZAPROSZENIE DO ROZMOWY NON-FICTION date of publication: 2019 pages: 528

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Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 152 [email protected] 153 [email protected] Dorota Sumińska (b. 1957) is a writer and a veterinary doctor who has held a practice for many years. Her passion is for animal psychology. She has run popular animal programs on radio and television for years. She has written books and guides about animals, and also about people, travel, and life, including such bestsellers as An Autobiography on Four Paws, Onward on Four Paws, An Animal in the Bed and Where Did the Dog Come from?, and a novel, The World According to a Dog. She is also the author of several books for young enthusiasts of our four­ legged friends. Her latest non-fiction book is Enough. Of Animals and People, Pain, Hope and Death. Her passion is faraway journeys, during which she visits corners of the globe that are fascinating for their nature and drops in on rare and exotic animals. DOROTA SUMIN SKA DOROTA fot. Andrzej Zawada

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 154 [email protected] Keynote  A straightforward, sharp message, with This latest work by a charismatic noting fancy or philosophical. veterinarian and famous animal lover is Description a strident manifesto – a protest against Enough is the “cry of a dog in human skin”, the endless suffering that we cause other as the author often calls herself. It is species every day. neither easy nor pleasant to read, but it Selling Points is certainly mandatory. It is a startling,  A charismatic and respected journalist, brutal, and often heart-rending story of known for her gift for spinning compelling the suffering we inflict on animals while tales about the animal world. turning a blind eye. The bitter truth of  She hosts a very popular radio program, our relations with other species, which “I Believe in Animals”. we have kept veiled for millennia under  Compared to Caparrós’ powerful words like “herding”, “breeding” or Hunger – an explosive book that brilliantly “meat production”. In recent decades in shows the scale of suffering we inflict on particular, the scale of this phenomenon animals on a daily basis. has reached apocalyptic proportions.  A story that makes use of a profound Sumińska cries out to make us terrified, knowledge of the ways and psychology of and this is crucial if we are to have animals. empathy. She uses various strategies –  She often writes from a first-person from adopting the voices of suffering perspective, showing the drama of animals animals, to dramatic descriptions of their raised to be butchered and milked (such lives and deaths and the economic and as scenes of calves being torn from their environmental consequences of devouring mothers). animals, with which we shall soon have to  The scale of suffering on display is meant contend. to inspire the reader’s empathy for many Target Market species living alongside of us. Lovers of animals and books about them.  A bold call to bring about a vegan People interested in veganism. revolution, not only to end animals’ Readers of books on the climate suffering, but because is our necessity catastrophe. in the face of the looming climate catastrophe. DOROTA SUMI N SKA DOROTA ENOUGH. OF ANIMALS PAIN, AND PEOPLE, HOPE AND DEATH NADZIEI BÓLU, I LUDZIACH, DOŚĆ. O ZWIERZĘTACH I ŚMIERCI NON-FICTION date of publication: 2020 pages: 160

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 156 [email protected] 157 [email protected] Piotr Trybalski (b. 1975) is one of Poland’s most outstanding travel journalists, who has been named Travel Photographer of the Year. He has been a finalist and winner of such awards as Grand Press Photo, the Great National Geographic Competition, Leica Street Photo, and Outdoor Photographer of The Year. He has been traveling for many years, organizing expeditions and journalism and landscape photography workshops. His books include A Photographer on the Road and Journeys with Adrenaline, and as co-author, the biography of the Polish mountain climber Piotr Pustelnik: I’m a Hermit. PIOTR TRYBALSKI PIOTR

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 158 [email protected] Keynote frontier, the terror of climbers all around The tale of the most bold and perilous the world, on a mountain generally mountain-climbing operation in considered to be unconquerable in the history of Himalayan expeditions. the winter time. An outstanding Polish A journalistic account of an attempt to reporter and photojournalist takes us conquer K2, the world’s most difficult behind the scenes of this dramatic and mountain, in the winter. icy Odyssey – from the very beginning, the planning stage and the preparation Selling Points of the gear, to the road to the Himalayas,  Behind the scenes of the most hazardous setting up the first camps, and expedition in the world history of the dramatic rescue operation on nearby Himalayan mountaineering. Nanga Parbat, observed by the entire  A story of the world’s most outstanding world. But Trybalski’s book is not only climbers, and a story of Polish Himalayists a tale of minus-fifty-degree temperatures, who proved time and again that nothing avalanches and wind storms – above is impossible. all, it is the story of people blessed with  Part of the book is a dramatic description mad courage, who will stop at nothing of the rescue operation on Nanga Parbat to achieve their aim. It is a tale of that shook the world in February 2018. the extraordinary bravery and fraternity of  There are many technical details tied the Ice Warriors. to mountain climbing – a description of the expedition’s organization and its various stages: from the logistics to Target Market the dramatic siege of the summit. Readers of biographies of athletes and travels. Lovers of mountain-climbing literature. Description People interested in reportage and non- Polish Himalaists have proven time and fiction. again that they know no boundaries. At the end of 2017 an expedition left Poland which aimed to accomplish what no one in the world had done, to conquer the peak of K2 in the winter – the final PIOTR TRYBALSKI PIOTR GIVING IT ALL FOR K2. OF ATTACK THE LAST THE ICE WARRIORS LODOWYCH ATAK ZA K2. OSTATNI WSZYSTKO WOJOWNIKÓW NON-FICTION date of publication: 2018 pages: 592

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 160 [email protected] 161 [email protected] Keynote a fascinating panorama of social life and A story of Andrzej Zawada, the greatest the arts scene of the time as well. Himalayan climber in history, also  The author is an outstanding journalist a singular and multi-talented man and authority on mountain climbing. who could not be contained in any one Description category. For some people, nothing is impossible – Selling Points and one of them was surely Andrzej  A book about a man who loved Zawada, the greatest Himalayan climber the mountains above all else, and who was in world history. He not only conquered prepared to give his life for them. the highest summits on Earth, he was also  Polish Himalayan climbing in the mid head of the expedition that was the first twentieth century was unmatched – to scale Mount Everest in winter, a feat climbers from Poland achieved which was considered impossible. Utterly the impossible, and Andrzej Zawada was devoted to his passion, he could speak of the best of them all. it with verve and poetic conviction, which  The tale of a very complicated man – Trybalski supplies in spades. multi-talented, taking what life had to As if mountain climbing were too give. little, Zawada also had a colorful and  Trybalski’s book is not just the story exciting life on the side – a man of of a great Himalayan climber – a holistic many talents, he was also successful portrait of a man of great passion, written in jazz and acting. On top of all this, with gusto, omitting nothing, no matter he was strikingly handsome: he was how dark or awkward. a ladies’ man and the life of the party,  Zawada’s biography is also the history as his wife bitterly recalls. His life was of Poland from the 1970s to the early rounded off by politics – after an initial capitalist era. This book contains may fascination for socialism, he became political angles – from his flirtation with active in the opposition movement in socialism to his work with the opposition. the 1980s, and then tried to find his feet  Zawada was also a great lover of jazz in the challenges of early capitalism. This and film – he had numerous successes in makes Trybalski’s book a multifaceted either field, which makes Trybalski’s book portrait of a real Renaissance man, a man of passion who loved life and knew how to PIOTR TRYBALSKI PIOTR THE OMNIPOTENT. MAN WHO INVENTED THE HIMALAYAS WYMYŚLIŁ CZŁOWIEK, KTÓRY WSZECHMOGĄCY. HIMALAJE live it to the full, in various circumstances. NON-FICTION Target Market date of publication: 2021 Readers of biographies of athletes and pages: 624 travelers. Lovers of mountaineering literature. Those interested in reportage and non‑fiction.

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 162 [email protected] 163 [email protected] Urszula Kozioł (b. 1931) is one of the most ambitious Polish poets alive. She also writes novels and radio plays, columns and theater pieces for children. She studied Polish Literature at the University in Wrocław, and made her debut in a local gazette in 1953. Since 1970 she has worked for the legendary Polish monthly Odra, which has been a staple of Polish culture. She has won many literary awards, including the Kościelski Prize in Geneva, PEN awards, and two German awards: the Eichendorf in Wangen and the Lower Saxony Land Medal in Hanover. She has been translated into many languages and published around the world. URSZULA KOZIOŁ fot.Maciej Bociański

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 164 [email protected] Keynote transcription of the experience of things The latest volume by one of Poland’s most passing and departing – a journal of outstanding poets – and intimate and the slow decay of the world and language. moving tale of disappearance, the passing It is a threnody for people now gone, of time, and death. who have left only vague traces behind. Yet there is no sorrow or anxiety – only Selling Points a gentle melancholy, in which we sense  Urszula Kozioł is one of the most a bit of relief. important figures in Polish literature and culture – not just as a poet, but also as Target Market the editor of the cult magazine Odra. Lovers of poetry.  The highest form of literature – a volume Readers of ambitious literature. filled with literary pearls.  For over a decade, Kozioł has been developing her unique style and poetic line – her latest book is elegant proof of this, while bringing in new themes and motifs.  She has a strong and well-grounded

literary position in Poland and around the world.  She has been nominated and awarded with some of the most important literary prizes, in Poland and abroad. Description Over the decades Urszula Kozioł has been a part of in Polish literature, she has created a unique poetic idiom – her simple, spare, yet razor-sharp language has won her the recognition of both readers and critics. Her latest volume fits perfectly into this poetic, while adopting more elegaic tones. Disappearing Ink is a poetic URSZULA ZNIKOPIS KOZIOŁ DISAPPEARING INK POETRY date of publication: 2019 pages: 64

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 166 [email protected] 167 [email protected] Jerzy Kronhold (b. 1946) is a well­ ‑respected poet, considered to be a co‑creator of the movement in Polish poetry known as Nowa Fala (New Wave). For a long time, his work was overshadowed by the work of his more famous colleagues such as Stanisław Barańczak, Adam Zagajewski and Ryszard Krynicki, but appreciation for his poetry has increased with time. Kronhold has published about a dozen volumes of poetry. He was nominated for Poland’s most important literary awards for his book of poetry titled A Long Jump (2016) and won the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw. Kronhold is also a cultural activist and diplomat – he has served as the consul general in Ostrava twice and as the director of the Polish Institute in Bratislava. JERZY KRONHOLD

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 168 [email protected] Keynote A new volume of reflective poems by one of Poland’s best poets. Selling Points  New poems by one of the most respected Polish poets.  Idiosyncratic humour combined with winsome nostalgia.  A “Czech atmosphere”, deep reflection, content that is open to interpretation. Description It’s Burning My Lady is a chronicle of extraordinary events that date back to childhood and youth. The author is nostalgic and ironic, and often adds a dose of Czech humour and joyful vitality. He skilfully combines detail and observations with a universal message. He strives to define the functions of memory in human life and the meaning of seemingly insignificant events that gain new significance after many years have passed. Target Market Lovers of contemporary poetry. Fans of reflective lyricism. KRONHOLD IT’S BURNING MY LADY JERZY PALI SIĘ MOJA PANIENKO POETRY date of publication: 2019 pages: 64

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 170 [email protected] 171 [email protected] Ewa Lipska (b. 1945) – regarded as one of the last remaining great female Polish poets that started writing in the 20th century. She is a lyricist and columnist. She first appeared in print at the age of 19 and her first volume of poetry was published in 1967. She worked as the poetry editor at the publisher Wydawnictwo Literackie. She has been a co­‑founder, editor and writer for several periodicals e.g. the monthlies Pismo and Kraków. For many years she worked for the Polish diplomatic service in Austria. She has won prestigious prizes for her literary output, both at home and abroad, including Gdynia Literary Prize for her volume of poetry Reverberations and a place on the shorlist for the Nike Literary Award a number of times. She has participated in international literary festivals and residencies (in USA and Germany). She is a member of the Polish Writers’ Association, the Polish PEN Club and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her poems have been translated into many languages and appeared in many anthologies. Key volumes of poetry: Poems (1967), Fourth Collection of Poems (1974), Fifth Collection of Poems (1978), Young People’s Home (1979), Storage for Darkness (1985), Restricted Parking Zone (1990), Beneficiaries of a Grant of Time

EWA LIPSKA (1994), 1999 (1999), Pet Shops (2001), Somewhere Else (2005), Reverberations (2010) and Fingerprint Reader (2015). fot. Danuta Węgiel fot. Danuta

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 172 [email protected] Keynote in her analyses of reality and her ability The last great poet of the twentieth to look deep into language. “The world is century perceptively and mercilessly headed for a breakdown. // The moon’s diagnoses a world pitching toward its been cast into a river. / Nothing has downfall. happened yet. // We devour love. We spit out the seeds. / We gaze at the wreck Selling Points of a cemetery. / More or less dead. But  One of the great figures in twentieth- nothing more”, the poet writes in a recent century Polish poetry. work. A breakdown of the world that will  A volume that brings together the major spare no one. Let us read Lipska to get elements of the author’s oeuvre. prepared.  A suspicion toward language found in Szymborska, and an insight in her Target Market diagnoses worthy of Miłosz. Poetry lovers.  An original and fascinating look at Those interested in ambitious literature, the decadence of our times. especially from Poland.  A book that reflects the ideological and linguistic confusion reigning in Poland in recent years.  Sortlisted for the Nike Literary Award 2018. Description Lipska is ofter referred to as „the last great poet of the twentieth century”. This is surely true – she debuted in the 1960s with the New Wave generation and has followed the stormy socio-political changes of the various decades with attention and disquiet. Yet it would be a mistake to suppose that the poet has nothing to say about our times. Both this volume and the one before it (The Palm Line Reader)

EWA LIPSKA MEMORY OPERATIVE OPERACYJNA PAMIĘĆ prove once again that Lipska is peerless POETRY date of publication: 2017 pages: 48

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NIKE LITERARY AWARD 2018

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 174 [email protected] 175 [email protected] Keynote again she proves that, as ever, she is on One of the most outstanding excellent form as a writer. contemporary Polish poets at her literary Target Market best. Poetry lovers. Selling Points Readers looking for ambitious literature.  The most recent volume of poetry by this Admirers of Ewa Lipska’s poetry. prominent Polish poet who has won many prestigious awards.  Motifs and poetic devices which have charmed many readers.  Compelling poetry which cannot easily be forgotten. Description This volume, which is bound to be a literary sensation, contains 26 new poems by the highly regarded and much admired Polish poet. Lipska incorporates the qualities to which she has accustomed her readers and with which she bewitches them. Love in Safe Mode displays her usual meticulous construction, her characteristic, sometimes teasing, humour and her striking use of extended metaphors. Even in the title we see a reference to the commingling of technological and existential spheres. The latter is the poet’s focus: she writes about life, the past, separation, impermanence, death and love. Lipska does not shy away from commenting on present day issues. Yet EWA LIPSKA IN SAFE MODE LOVE MIŁOŚĆ W TRYBIE AWARYJNYM POETRY date of publication: 2019 pages: 60

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 176 [email protected] 177 [email protected] Barbara Gawryluk (b. 1957) is a writer, journalist, translator and the author of many award-winning books for children. She translates from Swedish, including the bestselling series The Whodunnit Detective Agency.

Paweł Skawiński (b. 1947) is a forest ranger, Tatra expert and guide, and mountain rescue worker. He has worked at the Polish Academy of Sciences Natural Protection Institute. In 1986 he became a custodian of the Tatra National Park Nature Museum, in 2001–2014 he was made director of the museum, and presently he is retired. BARBARA GAWRYLUK, BARBARA GAWRYLUK, PAWEŁ SKAWIN SKI il. Adam Pękalski

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 178 [email protected] 179 [email protected] Keynote protagonists are plants and animals who An award-winning author of children’s are eager to tell their stories. In addition, books and an experienced mountain guide you can find many Tatra legends, poems make a remarkable team, fired by a love of and stories of people whose whole lives the mountains and written for all ages. have been bound to the mountains. The beautiful illustrations and accessible Selling Points form makes a family vacation even more  A fascinating book for the entire family. interesting and enriching.  Sure to fuel a love of nature in children.  It teaches respect for plants and animals, Target Market and an environmental approach to Children ages 6–12. the world. And their parents as well.  A very diverse book – from practical tips Lovers of beautifully published books. to legends and tales of old Tatra climbers.  Gorgeous illustrations.  Accessible form.  The authors are outstanding authorities in their fields: children’s literature and the Tatra mountains.  The perfect book for vacation time. Description The Tatra Mountains – many call them the most beautiful mountains in the world, the Polish Alps, seducing one and all with their charms. Though highly popular among tourists, they still hold many attractions and mysteries. This guide for young and old is a remarkable book, through which young travelers (and their parents) can rediscover a love of the mountains. It is also a practical guide for how to behave in the wild – learning

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Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 180 [email protected] 181 [email protected] Anna Janko (b. 1957) is a writer, poet, journalist, and literary critic. She made her debut in 1977 with the poetry collection Letter to a Guinea Pig. Since then she has published seven more volumes, the most recent in 2010, Poems with a Shadow. She has developed a highly recognizable poetry style, marked by an unpretentious simplicity and a large dose of emotional maturity. She has also published two bestselling novels: The Girl with Matches (2007) and The Passion According to St. Hanka (2012). Here she provided a most compelling description of her mother’s fate; as a girl, during the war, she survived the bloody pacification of her family village by German soldiers. She is a winner and finalist for Poland’s most important literary prizes, including the Nike Award, the Gryfia Award (for Poland’s best female writer), and the international Angelus Central European Literature Award. ANNA JANKO fot. Agnieszka Herman

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 182 [email protected] Keynote region (eastern Poland). When the girl’s A compelling and sensitively written tale computer definitively refuses to cooperate, for children and adults about the tragic and it seems that the vacation is going to events of war, but also about the power of be a drag, Grandpa comes to the rescue, love and devotion. telling the girl a tale of his difficult childhood. Like a master storyteller, he Selling Points takes the tragic events of his boyhood  A tale of a traumatic childhood during in 1943, when he was taken to a German the war, written from an extraordinary camp, and dresses them in fantastical garb. and highly original perspective. When it seemed as though his fate were  Although this book speaks of tragic sealed, a remarkable couple came to his events, it can even be suitable for the very aid – Róża and Jan Zamoyski. These local young, thanks to the author’s literary aristocrats risked everything they had, talent, often approaching a fairy-tale including their lives, to rescue a thousand convention. people, including hundreds of children,  In this work and the previous, from a tragic death. They not only brought multi‑award-winning book (A Minor the prisoners food, they secured people’s Annihilation), she speaks of the most tragic escapes and shelter. It was thanks to aspects of wartime horror – the experience them that Adelka’s grandfather survived of the very young. the war.  The book’s protagonists are a few In a story that is greatly moving and remarkable people who risked everything accessible even to children, Janko reminds during the war in order to help others, and us of the real heroes of the war time. This children in particular. is also a book that shows the extraordinary  A unique tale of bonds built between power of storytelling, which can unite generations of family. generations and teach empathy and care  The author is recognized and admired for others to the younger generation. in Poland – each of her books causes a stir and is awarded the most important Target Market literary prizes. Lovers of historical novels. Description Those interested in the history of World Little Adelka is going on vacation to visit War II and the Holocaust. her grandfather, who lives in the Zamość Those in search of ambitious and unusual ANNA JANKO OLES AND MRS ROŻA OLEŚ I PANI RÓŻA books for the whole family. CHILDREN’S BOOK date of publication: 2018 pages: 100

Contact: Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 184 [email protected] 185 [email protected] Dorota Sumińska (b. 1957) is a writer and a veterinary doctor who has held a practice for many years. Her passion is for animal psychology. She has run popular animal programs on radio and television for years. She has written books and guides about animals, and also about people, travel, and life, including such bestsellers as An Autobiography on Four Paws, Onward on Four Paws, An Animal in the Bed and Where Did the Dog Come from?, and a novel, The World According to a Dog. She is also the author of several books for young enthusiasts of our four­ legged friends. Her latest non-fiction book is Enough. Of Animals and People, Pain, Hope and Death. Her passion is faraway journeys, during which she visits corners of the globe that are fascinating for their nature and drops in on rare and exotic animals. DOROTA SUMI N SKA DOROTA fot. Andrzej Zawada

Contact: foreign rights manager: Joanna Dąbrowska 186 [email protected] Keynote Description Where did the dogs and cats in our homes Our relationships with dogs and cats are come from? And how can we talk to them? older than any civilization. How did it The newest book for children written by happen that thousands of years ago our the well-known journalist gives definitive forebears came into contact with one answers to these questions. another and decided to live side by side? This celebrated journalist, known for her Selling Points love of animals, recounts the convoluted  A charismatic and respected journalist, history of this long friendship in her known for her gift of constructing newest book aimed at children. In a style compelling stories about the world of both straightforward and appealing to animals. young readers she explains how to create  A fascinating story about the long meaningful relationships with our pets. friendship between people and their But Where Did the Dog Come from? Is not companions. just an invaluable handbook – it is also  A vivid book, full of colorful pictures and a moving and entertaining book, which illustrations, ideal for young readers. everyone in the household will love.  A handbook, which entertains and teaches how to build relationships with Target Market our pets. Lovers of animals and books about  The author presents numerous concrete animals. examples from her rich professional People looking for quality family books. experience. Readers of handbooks and psychological  Along with substantial professional books. advice (properly gauged for the youngest of readers), in the book there are also many compelling stories and engaging anecdotes.  The book, though addressed to the youngest of pet lovers, is also suitable reading for the entire family. Ideal for reading together. DOROTA SUMI N SKA DOROTA WHERE DID THE DOG COME FROM? SKĄD PRZYSZEDŁ PIES? CHILDREN’S BOOK date of publication: 2019 pages: 200

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