Juliusz Strachota

is a writer and photographer born in 1979 in Warsaw. He’s the author of several novels, including “Turysta polski w ZSRR” [A Polish Tourist in the USSR] (2018), which was nominated for the prestigious Nike and Gdynia Prizes.

Soul + Body

Good Mood

Dukkha

An author and practising Buddhist discusses his manyfold spiritual path – and how the path to liberation is, in fact, quite ordinary – in the third part of our new series about Buddhism.

Juliusz Strachota

A Polish Tourist in the USSR

Art + Stories

Fiction

A Polish Tourist in the USSR

In this extract from Juliusz Strachota’s “A Polish Tourist in the USSR” the protagonist makes his way to Crimea with the help of a childhood guide book.

Juliusz Strachota