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Nearly 50 years after it was published, a book written by a Polish war hero, outlining his dialogue with an SS general cellmate has finally been translated into English

“The short story is not the most widely practised genre in Poland, which is a land of poets and novelists”, writes Antonia Lloyd-Jones in her introduction

Reading Joanna Olczak-Ronikier’s book about her family, I was reminded of my first morning in Poland on a reporting assignment in 1981.

Szczygiel takes pains to preserve tiny things for us: a snatch of dialogue overheard on the metro, or a conversation with a random stranger.

From the recent collection The Burden of Skin.   The sea was groaning like a wounded beast. Is the sea hungry? Or thirsty? Is it afraid? Dawn was slipping through holes in the thin curtains. L…

In ‘Untranslatable Treasures’, acclaimed translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones takes us on a witty, affectionate journey through the Polish language – from its lyrical bird names to its infamously tangled gr...

A collection of literary essays by prominent Polish reportage writer Mariusz Szczygieł is set to be launched this week in Britain.

Happiness sleeps peacefully. Imagination puts on her boots and goes out for a long ramble under the stars. Anger loves stormy nights, when the whole sky feels l

A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with ...

'The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories', edited and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, shatters clichés of Poland as only war and sorrow, unveiling a dazzling century of fiction alive with humour,…

The International Booker Prize winner’s vivid 1998 novel about her adopted Polish village gets its first full English translation

In his wise and wry novel, My Name is Stramer, Mikolaj Lozinski imagines the lives of a Polish family during the turbulent first half of the 20th century

Mikołaj ŁoziNski’s fifth novel is a masterpiece of foreshadowing and, surely, a future Pushkin Press classic

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a discussion with Sasha Dugdale and Oksana Maksymchuk. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.

Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher.

Part Two: The introduction by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Last month, Gazans honoured their donkeys, dressing them up and walking them down a red carpet to celebrate the animals...

Tobias Carroll on the June titles in translation you won't want to miss, from Peru, Tanzania, Tibet, and more.

A new book of Polish short stories reveals the inventive mischievousness of the nation’s writers

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Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Voracious: Małgorzata Lebda and Antonia Lloyd-Jones in conversation with Sasha Dugdale...