Olga Tokarczuk’s Books in a Nutshell

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was born in 1979. He taught Philosophy and Ethics at the Raszyńska secondary school in Warsaw, and is the author of the website “Nowe wiersze sławnych poetów” [New Poetry from Famous Poets] and of the novel “Wakacje” [Holiday]. He sings and writes lyrics for the band Ryby. He has also written lyrics for the bands EXTRA and Jerz Igor. He performs in the theatre improv group Dobrze and in the comedy trio Wszystko Będzie Dobrze [Everything’s Gonna Be Alright]. He lives in Warsaw.

For those who haven’t read them from start-to-finish, here’s a roundup of Olga Tokarczuk’s books—one of Poland’s most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation.

The Journey of the Book-People [Podróż ludzi księgi]

Tokarczuk’s debut. The Book-People travel.

E. E.

It’s a bit like the science fiction TV show Stranger Things, only that the action is set a long time ago in Wrocław. One girl is a medium but she might just be faking it.

Primeval and Other Times

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Grzegorz Uzdański:

was born in 1979. He taught Philosophy and Ethics at the Raszyńska secondary school in Warsaw, and is the author of the website “Nowe wiersze sławnych poetów” [New Poetry from Famous Poets] and of the novel “Wakacje” [Holiday]. He sings and writes lyrics for the band Ryby. He has also written lyrics for the bands EXTRA and Jerz Igor. He performs in the theatre improv group Dobrze and in the comedy trio Wszystko Będzie Dobrze [Everything’s Gonna Be Alright]. He lives in Warsaw.

Translation: Julia Potocka-Ostaszewska

Publish date: 10.10.2019

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Ernest Valdemar:

is the well-known compiler of the “Bibliotheca Forensica” and author (under the nom de plume of Issachar Marx) of the Polish versions of Schiller’s “Wallenstein” and Rabelais’s “Gargantua”. A resident of Harlem, New York since 1839. A fictional character in one of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, and a very real patron saint of “Przekrój”’s translators’ questionnaire.

In the Valdemar Questionnaire, we give voice to translators who reflect on their work and role as intermediaries between languages and cultures. In the first instalment of our series, the award-winning translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones takes on Valdemar.

The art of translation is very much about mediating between two very different realities… a task that at times can seem hardly negotiable. This was certainly the case for M. Ernest Valdemar – a fictional character in one of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories – a resident of Harlem, NY, and, as it happens, a translator of literature (into Polish). Mesmerized at the moment of his death, Valdemar experienced some scary moments as a medium stuck between life and death, before meeting a rather gruesome end. Now, in the Valdemar Questionnaire, we give voice to translators who reflect on their work and role as intermediaries between languages and cultures, and offer comments on the pieces that they have decided to share with the readers of “Przekrój”.

Olga Tokarczuk’s Books in a Nutshell

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The Art of Translation with Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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