Ursula Phillips

is a translator of Polish literary and academic works. Honorary Research Associate of the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Awarded the Found in Translation prize (2014).

Alone in the Bosom of Nature

World + People

Dreams and Visions

Alone in the Bosom of Nature

It is often said that Sweden is a ‘loners’ paradise’, but there is more to this than meets the eye. How, for example, is the Swedish concept of ‘solitude’ connected with time spent in nature?

Katarzyna Tubylewicz

Art + Stories

Fiction

Lematrix

The books of science fiction writer Stanisław Lem contain interesting – if disturbing – visions of the world around us as a mere illusion.

Piotr Paziński

Izaak Feldwurm’s Manuscript

Art + Stories

Fiction

Izaak Feldwurm’s Manuscript

In this excerpt from one of Piotr Paziński’s short stories, Pan Abram leads a mysterious search for a lost literary manuscript and its legendary author in what was once the heart of Jewish Warsaw, characterized by its ‘Bird Streets’.

Piotr Paziński