Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around …
Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929. Being half Jewish, the family moved to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and returned home after the war. After studying French literature …
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (also known as "Litwos"; May 5, 1846–November 15, 1916) was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers …
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her n…
Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. She started her studies on …
Bolesław Prus (pronounced:[bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; Hrubieszów, August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist who is known especiall…
Vyštudoval históriu a filozofiu na Univerzite Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici. Na širšiu scénu vstúpil v roku 2001 ako kmeňový autor internetových strán…
Przez większość czasu udaje, że robi coś konstruktywnego, czyli niewiele z niej pożytku. Przebrzydła polonistka, beznadziejnie zakochana w romantyzmie i twórczości Juliusza Słowackiego, który wielkim p…
I live in Oregon at the moment, though I hail from the UK. Growing up in a house overlooking a graveyard, on the edge of the bleak and foreboding Pennine Hills, seems to have instilled in me an obsess…
Aneta Jadowska przyszła na świat w Radomsku, w 1981 roku. Pierwsze opowiadanie opublikowała w wieku dziewiętnastu lat, w lokalnej gazecie. Jej debiut powieściowy nastąpił w 2012, gdy ukazał się Złodzi…
Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak – dziennikarka, absolwentka polonistyki na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim. Autorka biografii Słonimski. Heretyk na ambonie (Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 2012), nominowanej w najważniejszych …
Growing up among the fjords and mountains of Western Norway, Klara Hveberg loved to fill her pockets with sparkling stones from the beach. She played the violin, wrote poems and enjoyed juggling. As t…
T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-d…
Dziennikarka prasowa i telewizyjna, przez wiele lat pracowała dla cenionych stacji i magazynów, gdzie przygotowywała reportaże, teksty psychologiczne i rozmowy. Autorka programów reportażowych i talk-…
A Polish author writing under a pseudonym. In her books, she likes to touch on important topics and make the reader reflect. She loves writing romances with characterful women and men who can be consi…
Autorka nominowanej do Nagrody Fandomu Polskiego im. Janusza A. Zajdla powieści Bóg Maszyna. Studiowała twórcze pisanie na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim i szlifowała warsztat ponad dwie dekady, by móc kiedyś …
Simon Boas was born in 1977 and spent his childhood in London and Winchester. He got the bug for Overseas Aid after delivering his first aid convoy to Bosnia (at 16) in 1993, and went on to spend his …