Frankfurt Book Fair 2012

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Rights
Catalogue
A
Wydawnictwo
literackie
Frankfurt Book Fair 2012
Contact Information
S U P E RV I S O RY B O A R D
Chairperson Vera Michalska-Hoffmann
Tomasz Wardyński
Mirosław Zaremba
Council Chairperson Anna Zaremba-Michalska
Editor-in-chief Małgorzata Nycz
Head editorial secretary Maria Rola
Editorial secretary Krystyna Zaleska
Finance director Dariusz Kurdziel
Sales director Grzegorz Głódkowski
PR & marketing director Anna Zemanek
Foreign rights
Joanna Dąbrowska
e-mail: [email protected]
Paweł Ciemniewski
Jolanta Korkuć
Secretary Beata Krupa
Address
Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers Co. Ltd
ul. Długa 1, 31-147 Kraków
NIP: 676-21-16-135
REGON: 357052753
KRS: 0000012638
tel.: +48 (12) 619 27 40
fax: +48 (12) 422 54 23
Rights Catalogue 2012
Wydawnictwo Literackie
www.wydawnictwoliterackie.pl
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Contents
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About Wydawnictwo Literackie
FICTION
Contemporary fiction
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Anderman Janusz – The Chain of Pure Hearts
Franczak Jerzy – The Inhuman Comedy
Franczak Jerzy – Da capo
Janko Anna – The Matchbox Girl
Janko Anna – The Passion According to Saint Hanka
Karpowicz Ignacy – Balladyna and romances
Karpowicz Ignacy – Gestures
Jarosław Klejnocki – Death Options
Kobza Piotr – Polish Retreat
Kowalewski Włodzimierz – Moral People
Miecznicka Magdalena – Fury
Orłoś Kazimierz – The House under the Sign of the Lute
Pilch Jerzy
Pilot Marian – Plume
Pilot Marian – Vim
Pilot Marian – The New Wilderness
Szczepan Twardoch – Morphine
Women’s fiction
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Fox Marta – Zuzanna Doesn’t Exist
Grochola Katarzyna – The Crystal Angel
Grochola Katarzyna – The Flutter of Wings
Grochola Katarzyna – The Green Door
Grochola Katarzyna – Houston, We Have a Problem
Jeromin-Gałuszka Grażyna – Don’t Leave Me
Michalak Katarzyna – A Year in Poziomka
Michalak Katarzyna – Summer in Jagódka
Michalak Katarzyna – Return to Poziomka
Michalak Katarzyna – The Cherry Manor
Wiśniewski Janusz – Blood Flow
Wiśniewski Janusz – My Greatest Intimacy
Science fiction & fantasy
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Huberath Marek S. – Vatran Auraio
Orbitowski Łukasz – Holy Wroclaw
Orbitowski Łukasz – It’s Coming
Orbitowski Łukasz – Phantoms
Protasiuk Michał – Revolution Day
NON-FICTION
History
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Ćwięk Henryk – Captain Sosnowski
Kaczmarek Ryszard – Poles in the Wermacht
Kaczmarek Ryszard – Poles in the Kaiser’s Army During World War
One
Kopka Bogusław – A Gulag on the Vistula. On Labor Camps in Poland
Motyka Grzegorz – From the Volhynia Massacre to Operation Vistula.
Polish/Ukrainian Conflicts 1943–1947
Motyka Grzegorz – The hunt is on for the White Poles… The battle
between the NKVD (Soviet Secret Service) and the Polish underground,
1944–1953
Pepłoński Andrzej – War for Hidden Causes. In the Second Polish
Republic’s Secret Service, 1918–1945
Petelicki Sławomir, Komar Michał– GROM: Power and Honour
Sowa Andrzej Leon – A Political History of Poland 1944–1991
Biography – Autobiography – Memoirs
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Baniewicz Elżbieta – Erwin Axer. The Theatre of Words and Thoughts
Robert Brylewski, Rafał Księżyk – Crisis in Babylon
Głowiński Michał – Autobiography
Grochola Katarzyna, Szelągowska Dorota – Tapestry
Hartwig Julia – Diaries
Komendołowicz Iza – Elka. Recollections about Elżbieta Czyżewska
Kuryluk Ewa – Goldi
Michalska Francesca – All the Joy of Living
Pankiewicz Tadeusz – The Pharmacy in the Krakow Ghetto
Staniszkis Jadwiga, Cieślar Artur – East and West. An Encounter
Stańko Tomasz, Księżyk Rafał – Desperado
Stuhr Jerzy – The Stuhrs. A Family History
Stuhr Jerzy – That’s What I Think…
Sumińska Dorota – Animal in the Bedroom
Sumińska Dorota – Still on Four Paws
Danuta Wałęsa, ed. Piotr Adamowicz – Dreams and Secrets
Włodek Ludwika – A Tale of the Iwaszkiewicz Family
Self-Help
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Grochola Katarzyna, Wiśniewski Andrzej – Marital and Extra-Marital
Fun and Games
Grochola Katarzyna, Wiśniewski Andrzej – Loving Relationships
and Break Ups
Kajdański Edward – Chinese Medicine for Beginners
Spodaryk Mikołaj, Grabowska Elżbieta – I Know What My Child Is
Eating
Sumińska Dorota, Krzywicka Dorota, Stanisławska Irena A. – How to
Live in Harmony with the Bigger and Smaller Members of the
Household
Woydyłło Ewa – How to Live with Depression, but Not in Depression
POETRY
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Ewa Lipska – Dear Ms. Schubert
Ewa Lipska – Echo
Matywiecki Piotr – The Audience
Mikołajewski Jarosław – Broken Glasses
Mikołajewski Jarosław – On the Inhalation
Waga Adam – Obolus (Pilot Marian – Final Resolutions)
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LIST OF AUTHORS AVAILABLE FOR TRANSLATION
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About Wydawnictwo Literackie
In the very heart of Krakow, in the famed and distinctive Pod Globusem
Building on Długa Street 1, stands the headquarters of Wydawnictwo
Literackie Publishers – one of the largest and most highly respected literary
publishers in Poland.
Founded in 1953, Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers has been inspiring
the most fascinating literary phenomena and publishing the finest names
in Polish and world literature for over half a century, including novelists,
poets, essayists, historians, and cultural scholars. We are, above all,
publishers of literature, particularly of Polish and foreign prose and
non‑fiction – including important memoirs, history books, popular science
titles, and literature for young people.
Among the authors affiliated with WL are Polish and foreign Nobel Prize
winners, as well as outstanding, admired, and award-winning figures
from the worlds of culture, literature, and art. We would not, however,
be considered one of the most influential on the market if we did not invite
the most interesting young and promising writers to work with us, as well
as the leading names in popular literature.
My love affair with Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers began many years ago.
In 1957 they wanted to publish my novel, The Issa Valley, and in May they
received my manuscript. I admit that, because of my neglect, the signing of the
contract was postponed till August. Then the manuscript was readied for print.
Unfortunately, on 14 December the printing was halted “following discussions
at the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party Publishing
Commission, owing to the general political activities of the author.” Nonetheless,
I recall with gratitude that the entire fee for the print run of 10,000 copies was
paid to my family. The publishing house returned to The Issa Valley after
I received the Nobel Prize, and its first Polish publication was in 1981. I clearly
had a great deal of sentiment for them, given that they issued my book of poetry
entitled A Hymn of Pearl in 1983, and in 1984, a two-volume edition of my
collected poems. I entrusted the publication of my collected works to two Krakow
publishers, Wydawnictwo Literackie and Znak. This clearly shows the esteem
I hold for the team at Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers.
– Czesław Miłosz
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Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers is the only publishing house in Poland
capable of such enormous and prestigious undertakings as the collected
works of Stanisław Brzozowski, Witold Gombrowicz, Czesław Miłosz,
and Antoni Kępiński, a thirty-four volume publication of the works
of Stanisław Lem, the publication of the monumental collection of quotes
entitled Winged Words, edited by Henryk Markiewicz and Andrzej
Romanowski, the laborious preparation of a fifteen-volume scholarly edition
of the works of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, and the publication of Sławomir
Mrożek’s diaries and correspondence.
We pride ourselves on a record number of awards and nominations gained
for our authors and for the publishing house itself – we publish books
by winners of the Nike Literary Award, the Kościelski Award, the Janusz
Zajdel Polish Fandom Award, the K. Wyka Award, the Polityka Passport,
the Literatura na Świecie Award, the Gdynia Literary Award, and many others.
Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers is one of the first in Poland to have
begun selling books in the increasingly popular medium of electronic
publishing, in e-book and audio book formats. These new spaces for fine
literature are a great opportunity for authors and readers both – to our
mind, it is worth using the latest technologies to get books out to as many
diverse readers as possible!
My relationship with Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers is affectionate,
bilateral, deep, extracurricular, fruitful, inspiring, interpersonal, long-term,
multifaceted, precise, subtle, valuable, and vivacious. Because I do not know
which term is the most important here, I have listed them all, in alphabetical
order. For the good of future authors, I hope that Wydawnictwo Literackie carries
on for another hundred years.
– Wisława Szymborska
Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers means brilliant writers, the foremost
figures in culture, and inspiring personalities.
PERSONALITIES
Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz, Father Joachim Badeni,
Stanisław Barańczak, Władysław Bartoszewski, Zygmunt Bauman,
Jan Błoński, Andrzej Bobkowski, Zbigniew Brzeziński, Karl Dedecius,
Michał Głowiński, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Józefa Hennelowa,
Maria Janion, Stanisław Lem, Henryk Markiewicz, Sławomir Mrożek,
Maria Orwid, Wojciech Pszoniak, Tadeusz Różewicz, Tomasz Stańko,
Jerzy Stuhr, Dorota Sumińska, Jan Józef Szczepański, Hanna Świda-Ziemba,
Jan Twardowski, Karol Wojtyła, Adam Zamoyski, Antonina Żabińska
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POLISH PROSE WRITERS
Janusz Anderman, Jacek Dukaj, Jerzy Franczak, Marek S. Huberath,
Anna Janko, Ignacy Karpowicz, Włodzimierz Kowalewski,
Zbigniew Kruszyński, Mikołaj Łoziński, Magdalena Miecznicka,
Łukasz Orbitowski, Kazimierz Orłoś, Jerzy Pilch, Marian Pilot,
Jerzy Sosnowski, Olga Tokarczuk, Szczepan Twardoch
ESSAYISTS, NON-FICTION WRITERS
Przemysław Czapliński, Tomasz Fiałkowski, Aleksander Fiut,
Tomasz Grzywaczewski, Jerzy Jarzębski, Michał Paweł Markowski,
Tadeusz Nyczek, Marian Stala, Jadwiga Staniszkis, Agata Tuszyńska,
Teresa Walas, Barbara Włodarczyk, Ewa Woydyłło
STARS OF POPULAR LITERATURE
Katarzyna Grochola, Marta Fox, Grzegorz Kasdepke, Katarzyna Krenz,
Roma Ligocka, Katarzyna Michalak, Katarzyna T. Nowak,
Agnieszka Pilaszewska, Janusz L. Wiśniewski, Dorota Terakowska
HISTORIANS
Andrzej Andrusiewicz, Henryk Batowski, Czesław Brzoza, Andrzej Chwalba,
Henryk Ćwięk, Ryszard Kaczmarek, Kazimierz Krajewski, Jan M. Małecki,
Mariusz Markiewicz, Grzegorz Motyka, Andrzej Paczkowski, Artur Patek,
Andrzej Pepłoński, Andrzej Przewoźnik, Jan Rydel, Andrzej Leon Sowa,
Stanisław Szczur, Ryszard Terlecki, Janusz Węc, Adam Zamoyski
POETS
Julia Hartwig, Zbigniew Herbert, Urszula Kozioł, Ewa Lipska,
Piotr Matywiecki, Jarosław Mikołajewski, Ewa E. Nowakowska,
Czesław Miłosz, Jolanta Stefko, Tadeusz Różewicz, Wisława Szymborska,
Halina Poświatowska, Piotr Szewc, Janusz Szuber, Jan Sztaudynger,
Adam Zagajewski
FOREIGN WRITERS
Margaret Atwood, John Banville, John D. Barrow, Walter Benjamin,
Hans Georg Berg, Thomas Bernhard, Jorge Luis Borges, Michael Brooks,
Emmanuel Carrere, Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Annie Dillard, Robin Dunbar,
Joel Egloff, T.S. Eliot, Anne Enright, Hans Magnus Enzensbergera,
Oriana Fallaci, Niall Ferguson, George Friedman, Max Frisch, William Golding,
Tim Harford, Venedict Yerofeyev, Hedi Kaddour, Asa Larsson, Doris Lessing,
Primo Levi, Jonathan Littell, Armistead Maupin, Cormac McCarthy,
Alice Munro, Orhan Pamuk, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Pynchon, Atiq Rahimi,
Philippe Segur, Elif Shafak, Ian Stewart, Jurgen Thorvald, Mika Waltari,
Virginia Woolf, Lucy Maud Montgomery
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FI C T I O N
Janusz Anderman
Janusz Anderman (b. 1949) is one of Poland’s most respected contemporary
writers, a translator of Czech literature, film director, author of scripts, plays,
and radio plays. He is also the author of a popular prose series entitled
Photography, and the novels That’s All, Playing for Time, and All the Time, which
was nominated for the Nike Literary Award.
A film was made based on All the Time, entitled The Lesser Evil, directed by
Janusz Morgenstern. Anderman’s short stories served as the canvas for the
film Country of the World, directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, and for Olaf
Lubaszenko’s short directorial debut.
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FI C T I O N
Janusz Anderman
The Chain of Pure Hearts
Łańcuch czystych serc
Keynote
The Chain… shows a splendid sense of observation, a brilliant ear for language,
and a rough form of magical realism from a master of the short form – Janusz
Anderman.
Sales points
•A selection of the writer’s finest short stories to date
Description
Date of publication: 2012
Pages: 292
Category: Contemporary
fiction
Rights available: World
Anderman listens to people on the street, showing them at turning points
in Polish history (during Martial Law, and the transformation period after
the Round Table) with a grotesque sense of humor. We find a monologue
by a man on a bunk in an intern center, a picture of a pile of books brought
to the paper mill from a bankrupt warehouse, and among the books sits
a retired teacher... Everyday scenes played out in front of the Palace of Culture
and Science… A disoriented crowd during a demonstration. The author shows
the state of people’s minds with no holds barred, rendering the atmosphere
of the social moods. He finds his own way of doing this, one that is
characteristic and appeals to the imagination, while working powerfully
on the emotions. He incarnates himself, with a phenomenal feel for language,
into characters both recognizable and terrifying.
A feature film was made based on “Country of the World” (dir. Maria
Zmarz‑Koczanowicz), while on the basis of two other stories Olaf Lubaszenko
(in his directorial debut) made short films for Education Television,
with a lecture by Bronisław Maj delivered from the top of the Palace of Culture.
Brilliant stories, for which critics can find no comparison in Polish literature,
and which readers can finally have in one volume.
“A great imitator of others’ voices, a writer particularly sensitive to the comedy
of it all, who pushes his passion for mockery to the extreme, unwilling to sacrifice
his individuality for anything.”
Marta Wyka
“Anderman is a fiery polemist, gifted with an absurd sense of humor and the ability
to draw a surreal portrait.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Anderman spares no one, flatters no one, and leaves no one with any illusions.”
The Guardian
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FI C T I O N
Jerzy Franczak
Jerzy Franczak (b. 1978) — prose-writer, poet, literary scholar and critic,
and academic teacher. The author of novels, short-story collections
and essays, including: Three Histories (2001), Murmurings (2004), Algae,
Calques and Gear Racks (2004), a collection of essays called Gravitations (2007)
and a novel, The Changing Room (2008). He has also written two books
on contemporary literature: On Unreality. Sartre — Gombrowicz —
Nabokov (2002) and In Search of Reality. The World View of Polish Modernist
Prose (2007).
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
Winner of the Stanisław Grochowiak Award (1999).
Winner of the Stanisław Czycz Award (2000).
Winner of the Premio Tivoli Award (2001).
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS
Italian, French, German, English, Czech.
BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR PUBLISHED BY WYDAWNICTWO
LITERACKIE
Novels
The Inhuman Comedy (2009)
Da Capo (2010)
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FI C T I O N
Jerzy Franczak
The Inhuman Comedy
Nieludzka komedia
Keynote
Written with spleen, full of black humor, this is an intellectually refined tale
of the horrors of daily life and modern crime.
Sales points
•One of Poland’s most promising young writers.
•Winner of many prestigious literary awards and scholarships.
•Recipient of many scholarships (from the Minister of National Education, the City
of Krakow, ‘Polityka’ Weekly, and the Foundation for Polish Education).
Publication date: 2009
Pages: 168
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Rights sold: Slovenia
Description
The Inhuman Comedy is on the surface a humorous tale, light and breezy,
though somewhat unpleasant. It is being told by one Emil Król, a writer
manqué, a frustrated teacher and an unlucky lover. His stories of his
family, his travels and his work are filled with venomous humor and
bitter irony. By the reader’s smile vanishes from his mouth when this
kind skeptic commits a bestial murder, killing his lover, the mother-to-be
of his child, and then chops up her body… Locked in prison, he describes
his life and eavesdrops on the media furor gathering around his crime.
Without sacrificing a touch of its wit, Franczak’s novel ultimately reveals
its Dantesque dimensions and changes into a meditation on contemporary
evil, both intangible and stripped of its essence.
The Inhuman Comedy is one of the finest examples of ‘young writers’ I’ve
come across lately. Perfection of craft and knowledge of literature are visible on
every page. Franczak’s novel is a sophisticated, erudite game – the very title
contains clear allusions to Dante’s Divine Comedy and Balzac’s Human Comedy
(the former work serves the author in discussing the nature of contemporary
evil, and he skillfully reflects the latter in the satirical way he portrays the misery
of our daily activities) — but this is just the beginning.
Patrycja Pustkowiak, “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna”
Jerzy Franczak is without a doubt one of the most interesting figures among
today’s young Polish writers.
Leszek Bugajski, “Newsweek”
Target market
Lovers of contemporary literature, multi-layered psychological prose,
and novels about our surroundings.
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FI C T I O N
Jerzy Franczak
Da Capo
Da Capo
Keynote
A young author with a wealth of books and a substantial following,
addressing problems of modern-day youth
Sales points
•A rugged, gritty take on youth culture and corporate indoctrination in trendy Krakow
•Savvy and street-smart, but also a book with a heart, unafraid to tackle difficult family
dynamics
•Franczak has already been translated into several languages, including, English,
German and French
Pages: 256
Rights sold: Slovenia
Description
Is Da Capo a rollicking adventure in the spirit of Roman Polanski’s Frantic,
replete with a young femme fatale and a man with nothing left to lose?
Is it an unflinching examination of dysfunctional family relationships
(both with one’s parents and with one’s wife and child) and a valiant
attempt to salvage something from them? An inside look at the seedy
underbelly of Krakow’s bars and night life? A lesson in how to get fired
from your corporate office job? Well, it’s all of these things, obviously, as
well as a sequel to Franczak’s previous Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers
success, The Inhuman Comedy — the new novel’s protagonist is the brother
of the previous one’s. Franczak’s great achievement here is to have not sat
content with writing a gripping novel that young people will identify with.
He has upped the stakes by also making this a novel that takes emotional
risks, and demonstrates a universal comprehension of human interaction
way beyond his years.
Target market
For young people — does a good job addressing itself to those up on
the latest fashions.
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FI C T I O N
Anna Janko
Anna Janko (b. 1957) is one of Poland’s finest contemporary novelists, poets,
and literary critics. She was a finalist for the Nike Literary Award in 2001.
She has also won numerous other literary awards and distinctions.
Her novel The Matchbox Girl (nominated for Cogito Media Award in 2008
and for the Angelus Central European Literary Award) was enthusiastically
received by critics and readers alike – it was called mandatory therapeutic
literature for every woman. The Passion According to Saint Hanka is her
second novel.
Author Photograph
© Agnieszka Herman
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FI C T I O N
Anna Janko
The Matchbox Girl
Dziewczyna z zapałkami
Keynote
Literary, therapeutic, intimate, and thoroughly modern, The Matchbox Girl
is a striking novelistic debut by an established poet.
Sales points
• Winner of and nominee for several awards, including the Warsaw Literary Premiere,
the Cogito Media Award, the Angelus Literary Award, and the Władysław Reymont
Literary Award
• A “women’s novel” that does not talk down to its reader, and has much to say to men
and women both.
Pages: 350
Category:
Contemporary Fiction
Rights available: World,
excl. Germany
Description
The debut novel by poet Anna Janko, who delights and enchants from the very
first page. The author’s language is beautiful and flowing, and does not shy
from experiments, hovering on the verge of prose realism and poetic mysticism.
The narrator is an extremely sensitive woman stuck in a marriage that has,
over time, turned into a kind of prison. While going about her everyday activities,
somewhere between hanging up the laundry and making lunch, she got lost. She lost
her own identity. Her husband, who was meant to be the only one for her, turned out
to be an insensitive go-getter, and her mother-in-law has despised her from the start.
Ultimately she escapes into alcohol, which makes the cruel world more pleasant and
approachable, and writing, which partially serves a therapeutic function, and helps
her to put her life in order.
This novel is a rousing success.
Dariusz Nowacki, Gazeta Wyborcza
Anna Janko has written a very subversive, very intelligent, and very female novel.
Its femininity is subtle, its subversiveness surprising, its intelligence simply dazzling.
What more could you ask?
Paweł Huelle
One feels a kinship here with Sylvia Plath – Janko’s language works on our senses
in a similar way.
K. Kofta
Target market
Readers interested in contemporary life, readers of psychological prose and fine
Polish prose as such.
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FI C T I O N
Anna Janko
The Passion According to Saint Hanka
Pasja według św. Hanki
Keynote
This The Passion According to Saint Hanka is a total examination of love – and
what makes it so necessarily incomprehensible
Sales points
• An acknowledged poet makes a graceful shift to novels, sacrificing none of the depth
and beauty that made her originally admired
Description
Pages: 368
Category: Contemporary
Fiction
excl. Germany
“Love walks among people and searches for lovers. It matters little who they are
and how their loves are entangled, how old they are, how much energy they
have, or how much money or time, what their views, plans, obligations,
and duties consist in,” Janko writes in her novel. She tells the story of Hanka –
the protagonist of her previous novel, several years down the road. Hanka,
who at first “took a husband as if he were freedom,” is disappointed with
the married life. She meets an old lover and an affair begins; there is betrayal,
guilt, and pain, but also delight, enchantment and disenchantment, heaven
and hell… It is all described with an extraordinarily insightful dynamic,
all in the context of the drama of love.
“What is most incredible in this story is a sense of hunger. Hunger for literature and
for the sensuous side of life”.
Przemysław Czapliński
Target market
Readers of contemporary prose that is ambitious and demanding, and readers
of lighter “women’s” literature.
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FI C T I O N
Ignacy Karpowicz
Ignacy Karpowicz was born in 1976. He is a writer (Niehalo, Miracle,
The Emperor’s New Flower), and a translator from English, Spanish
and Amhar. He is a traveler whose destinations have included Central
America and East Africa, and who has lived in Costa Rica and Ethiopia.
He is currently working on his new novel about the intricate nature
of relationships and a question of identity.
OUTSTANDING AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
Nomination for the “Polityka” Passport for Niehalo
„Polityka” Passport for Balladyna and Romances
Nomination for the NIKE Award for Gestures
Nominated for the NIKE Award for Balladyna and Romances
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR IN THE WYDAWNICTWO LITERACKIE
PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE
Novels
Gestures (2008)
Balladyna and Romances (2010)
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FI C T I O N
Ignacy Karpowicz
Balladyna and Romances
Balladyny i romanse
Keynote
Take a pinch of Bulgakov, a touch of Rabelais and a healthy dose of Kundera,
and you are starting to approach Karpowicz’s world.
Sales points
•Nominated for the prestigious NIKE Award (2011)
•“Polityka” Passport Award
•A mixture of wildly imaginative flights of fancy and serious existential reflection
Description
Pages: 576
Rights sold: Hungary
Things on Earth aren’t looking so good. The old, mighty Gods have pushed
out the trivial, yet ruthless little gods of pop culture. The world of the
global village provides no sense of stability and security. People are isolated
and have long lost their hope for a change of fate – they spend their lives
from one day to the next, apathetic and bored… And to make matters
worse, the coffee starts running out.
But one day the gods begin to act. A large group of them appears
among the people. Will Nike, Aphrodite, Jesus, Osiris, Lucifer and others
manage to bring back the proper hierarchy? Will humanity once again
believe? Ignacy Karpowicz’s latest novel is a brilliantly wrought, ironic
treatise on modernity. It is at once amusing and terrifying. Provocative
and blasphemous. Some will like it. Others won’t. And that’s the way
it should be.
Target market
Those interested in the outer limits of modern literary invention,
and in authors willing to compromise nothing to tell their story.
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FI C T I O N
Ignacy Karpowicz
Gestures
Gesty
Keynote
Can you find out what life is really about after forty years old? This novel
says that you can always uncover all the mysteries. Everywhere.
Sales points
•One of the most clever and interesting contemporary Polish prose writers
•A compelling story whose emotional content should ring true for every reader
over forty
Description
Pages: 258
Category:
Rights sold: Lithuania
Karpowicz’s Gestures is a story of solitude, silence and alienation. It is a tale
about discovering your home, about an attempt to understand and name
past events, and to put them in order.
The forty-year-old protagonist leaves his apartment in the big city and goes
back to where he grew up, to visit his mortally ill mother, whom he hasn’t
seen for some months. The protagonist’s departure turns out, however,
to be just the start of the journey…
A psychologically precise and moving vivisection of a “man in transition.”
In a word: powerful stuff.
*
Karpowicz’s prose has courage and humor, it contains ordinary reality and an
extraordinary imagination. And there is also something that leads us to believe
that the author of Miracle is here in our literature to stay, and that he has many
more pleasures to offer readers — a clear, original and well-measured style.
Robert Ostaszewski
Target market
Lovers of interesting prose that reveals the truth about the readers
themselves; moving, intelligent and bittersweet tales of fate,
and protagonists who often remind us a bit of ourselves.
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FI C T I O N
Jarosław Klejnocki
Death Options
Opcje na śmierć
Keynote
The long-awaited third installment of the adventures of Commissioner Ireneusz
Nawrocki.
Sales points
•A story full of bloodcurdling suspense and surprising plot twists, drawing from the finest
tradition of detective novels.
Description
Date of publication:
Forthcoming
Pages: to come
Category:
contemporary fiction
In the Mazury Province during the times of the famous “white squall”
a sailboat overturns sinking with all hands on deck. The event is classified
as an accident. A prosecutor who knows one of the victims – a high‑ranking
bank employee – has a different opinion. The prosecutor uses her connections
to get in touch with Commissioner Nawrocki, who unofficially takes
on the case.
After some initial investigations, the commissioner stumbles onto the trail
of some murky affairs and concealments tied to the famous “options game”
played by banks and various companies, and in particular, a secret options
game of ultimate risk – “death options.” The deeper he goes into
the investigation, however, the more mysteries appear.
One thing is certain: the bank was in dire straits, something rotten was going
on, as indicated by the relationships between the people on the cruise,
which were remarkably complex and mysterious. The commissioner
is convinced that the sinking in the “white squall” could have been a murder.
Thus begins a semi-formal investigation, with the consent of the influential
persecutor.
Target market
Lovers of contemporary popular literature, detective novels,
and contemporary Polish prose.
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FI C T I O N
Piotr Kobza
Piotr Kobza (b. 1975) — a specialist in international relations
and the European Union. He has been in the diplomatic service since 2006,
recently in the Polish Embassy in Oslo.
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FI C T I O N
Piotr Kobza
Polish Retreat
Polskie rekolekcje
Keynote
A fine book with a refined sense of humor that tells of an unconventional
bishop whose every decision is not greeted with open arms…
Sales points
•The brilliant debut by a young political scientist who knows what a taboo is
Description
Pages: 328
Category:
A young bishop, a Vatican clerk and man of the world, is brought to parish
in the Eastern wilds of Poland that has been forsaken by both God and man.
Moved by the situation he finds there, he decides to introduce certain
changes, and does so in a way that is quite unconventional for a man
of the cloth. Plenty of amusing incidents result, all in the vein of the classic
comedies. The end, however, justifies the means.
Will the ambitious priest manage to overcome the backwater conservatism
and sluggishness, will he be able to deal with his personal crises?
Target market
Readers of contemporary prose, those wanting to read about the problems
of the Church, or searching for insight into “hermetic environments.”
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FI C T I O N
Włodzimierz Kowalewski
Włodzimierz Kowalewski (b. 1956) – one of the most interesting Polish
prose writers of the decade past. A literary critic and radio personality.
Tied to the Borussi group – an association and journal (which he co-edits)
describing and characterizing the multicultural heritage of what was once
Eastern Prussia. He has published two volumes of poetry, three volumes
of short stories, and two novels. Return to Breitenheide and God Bless!
were NIKE Literary Award nominees in 1998 and 2001.
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FI C T I O N
Włodzimierz Kowalewski
Moral People
Ludzie moralni
Keynote
From the dramatic to the grotesque – a merciless portrait of today’s Poland
Sales points
•A long-awaited novel by one of Poland’s most fascinating contemporary writers
•A two-times nominee for the prestigious NIKE Literary Award
Description
Pages: 364
Category:
The year is 1989. For some the end of the old world, for others the beginning
of real life. What has changed since then? In his latest novel Kowalewski
searches for an answer to this question.
A porn actress, a brilliant physicist, the country’s most influential journalist,
indestructible secret service agents – these are only some of the colorful figures
that appear in this book. The main protagonists are a financial tycoon at the top
of the Forbes list and his peer: a loser, idler, and malcontent, a “scribbler from
Olsztyn,” hired to write the millionaire’s biography. Their fortunes intertwine,
until both are caught in a complex plot, one which aptly reflects the new
morality in Poland.
Moral People is a meditation on people’s choices and their ethical values;
but above all it is a tale of Polish society in the spirit of Gombrowicz.
“Kowalewski’s novel gives us a great deal of food for thought. It opens our eyes to
many painful truths. It delves, but never gets tiresome. I began reading in the
evening, and the author’s style kept me going to the final pages all through the
night…”
Urszula Witkowska, Magazyn Literacki Książki
“Kowalewski combines concision and richness, simplicity and mystery, pulling us
into the story, and giving us pause for thought.”
Target market
Readers of intelligent contemporary prose, those interested in contemporary
life.
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FI C T I O N
Magdalena Miecznicka
Magdalena Miecznicka (b. 1977) – she’s a prose writer and a publicist.
She lives in Warsaw with her husband and two children. In 2009 her debut
novel A Wondrous Career of Magda M was published by Wydawnictwo
Literackie and in 2012 her second novel Fury.
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FI C T I O N
Magdalena Miecznicka
Fury
Złość
Keynote
Magdalena Miecznicka’s second book – a stylish and compelling novel
with a backdrop of family and romantic dramas – is modern literature
in the tradition of Western writers: Françoise Sagan, Margaret Atwood,
and Alice Munro.
Sales points
•An intricate novel with both feet planted firmly in the present, Miecznicka’s novel
will appeal to a wide range of readers.
Pages: 220
Category:
Description
Marta is a sharp twenty year old with a bundle of complexes: she reads
the classics, speaks a handful of languages, and has a tendency toward
self-destruction. Raised by her mother, she is unable to forgive her father
for leaving the family for another woman and his career. However,
when father and his second wife invite her on a luxury vacation on his
yacht, she agrees. Also on the journey is Maja, the niece of her
mother‑in‑law, and her boyfriend Brian. They set off on an idyllic trip around
the bays of the Mediterranean Sea. But nothing here is what it seems:
this superficially innocent journey turns out to be a real lesson in life…
“When I recall that summer, pride is the first thing to emerge from the mental
haze. Pride that I allowed anger overtake me, and pride that it turned me into
someone else. Someone tougher and meaner. An adult. But next come the doubts.”
(A fragment from the book)
Target market
Female readers of all ages, from teenagers to mature women. Readers
of psychological dramas.
Lovers of contemporary prose, good women’s literature, and multi-layered
novels.
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FI C T I O N
Kazimierz Orłoś
Kazimierz Orłoś (b. 1935), pseudonym: Maciej Jordan – an outstanding
Polish writer, film and television scriptwriter, playwright, author of radio
plays, and journalist.
He collaborated with Radio Free Europe, published in Kultura and Plus
magazines. In Poland he was censored. After the fall of the People’s Republic
he collaborated with Solidarność weekly, Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita,
Życie, and Gazeta Polska dailies.
In 1970 he received the Kościelski Foundation Award for Dark Trees.
In 2006 his book of short fiction entitled The Girl from the Porch was honored
with the New Books Award, and a year later, with the Warmia and Mazury
Literary Award.
Author Photograph
© Krzysztof Dubiel
Polish President Lech Kaczyński presented him with the Commander’s
Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta on 3 May 2007 for outstanding
service to Polish independence, for working to bring about democratic
transformations, and for his achievements to aid the country in his
professional and social work.
In 2007 he was singled out by the Arts Group of the Polish Radio Theater for
the Honorary Great Splendor Award.
His books have included The Marvelous Hideout (1973), The Third Lie (1980),
The Blue Dragonfly (1996), Wooden Bridges (2001), The Girl from the Porch (2006)
and The House under the Sign of the Lute (2012).
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FI C T I O N
Kazimierz Orłoś
The House under the Sign of the Lute
Dom pod Lutnią
Keynote
A novel with wide-ranging appeal, by an author who has already earned
a following in generations of Polish readers.
Sales points
• The winner of many prestigious awards
• A triumphant return to form by a writer in the great tradition of Polish realists
Description
A colonel returns from a Prisoner of War camp in the West, and settles down
in a once-German farmstead in a Mazurian village, partly inhabited by others
who have been resettled. Dangers abound: the protagonist fights with poachers,
and is accused of assisting the partisans. His nine-year-old grandson Tomek comes
to see him from Warsaw, escorted by his mother, who fears arrest. Tomek initially
does not want to stay, but then when his mother wants to take him back to the
capital city, he desperately protests; he spends over a year with his grandfather
in conditions radically different from those he knew in the city, and strikes up
new friendships. Alongside this fascinating new bond that is formed between
the old man and his grandson, we follow the relationship between the honest
colonel and a young local woman. The atmosphere of this novel is extraordinary
– it is a rare description of Polish post-war reality seen through the eyes of an
intelligent man who is entangled in difficult situations, but tries to create a sense
of order and give his grandson some relative stability.
Pages: 332
Category:
A beautiful and finely written book, extremely atmospheric, full of goodness and
warmth, reminding us of the marvels of the world and of life, and full of dramatic
tension, showing us life in the “eye of the hurricane,” and a young boy’s coming of age.
Kazimierz Orłoś’s best novel to date! Remarkable for its description of the experience of
happiness in unhappy times.
This is ultimately a novel about an unexpected encounter between an old man
and a young woman, a connection that both find remarkable. It is about how their
lives change, with the touch of a sensitive hand. Was this a great love? I do not know.
I don’t even know if it is still possible to convincingly portray a “great love” in the
twenty-first century.
Kazimierz Orłoś
Target market
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Reader’s of top-shelf prose, historical and romantic novels, lovers of traditional,
realistic prose and recollections of the second half of the 20th century –
the romantic plot will appeal to teenagers, the historical setting to older readers.
FI C T I O N
Jerzy Pilch
Wydawnictwo Literackie represents translation rights to the following titles
by Jerzy Pilch:
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FI C T I O N
Marian Pilot
Marian Pilot (b. 1936) – contemporary writer, journalist and screenwriter.
He has worked in the editorial teams of such publications as Wiadomości
Filmowe and Na Przełaj. Former prose section editor of Tygodnik Kulturalny.
AWARDS
The Nike Prize 2011
BOOKS
Na odchodnym (2002)
Cierpki, oboki, nice: bardzo małe opowiadania (2006)
Ciżba: opowiadania i opowieści (1980)
Jednorożec (1978)
Karzeł pierwszy, król tutejszy; Tam, gdzie much nie ma… (1976)
Majdan (1973)
Matecznik (1988)
Opowieści świętojańskie (1966)
Panny szczerbate: opowiadania (1977)
Pantałyk (1989)
Sień (1965)
W słońcu, w deszczu (1981)
Wykidajło (1980)
Zakaz zwałki (1974)
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FI C T I O N
Marian Pilot
Plume
Pióropusz
Keynote
A bravura novel gathering together all the attributes of Marian Pilot’s
writing: a surrealist sensibility, sense of the grotesque, pictorial
suggestiveness.
Sales points
•The Nike Prize 2011 winner!
Description
Pages: 320
Category:
Rights sold: Macedonia
A splendid novel by an author acclaimed for his creative linking of the prose
of the “peasant trend” with the Gombrowicz tradition.
The story of the postwar childhood of an obstreperous protagonist coming
from a family of rural “paupers” and thieves. His illiterate father, following
a prank on a teacher, a case of theft and the destruction of a school
blackboard, is shut up – as an enemy of the people – in one of Stalin’s
jails. The boy and his mother seek justice. Paradoxically, the need to
write court applications triggers off veneration in the protagonist for
the word. A symbolic gift from his father – a stolen pen with a golden nib –
determines his further fortunes…
“A novel about the power and curse of writing, faith in the word and
the consequences of being carried away by this faith. One of the most beautiful
novels granted to us in recent years”.
Dariusz Nowacki, “Gazeta Wyborcza”
“The story in Marian Pilot’s novel mixes languages and sniggers like crazy”.
Darek Foks, “Przekrój”
“Plume is imbued with mischievous humour, piercingly sad, optimistic and deeply
tragic, full of ecstasy, aggression and passion, a story told with bravura”.
Marian Pilot
Target market
Lovers of literarily unique and original, unpredictable and inimitable novels,
readers dreaming about getting acquainted with foreign cultures, lands and
customs.
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FI C T I O N
Marian Pilot
Vim
Pantałyk
Keynote
An unjustly neglected work by a contemporary master.
Sales points
•An early work by this year’s winner of the prestigious NIKE Literary Award.
Great literature with a philosophical bent.
Description
Pages: 208
Category:
The mischievous saga of the ancient and wealthy clans of the Duds
and Nowaks, laced with a wicked sense of humor. A tale of the incredible,
chilling adventures of some unfortunates who narrowly avoid the gallows,
and − in search of answers to the fundamental question put before
them: What to do when everything is possible? − set out on an arduous,
bold, and danger-fraught hunt for the legendary Vim, who haunts the
dreams of all those knocked out of the saddle in our century, an intangible
symbol of structure, peace, and happiness. Originally published in 1970,
this collection of short tales has lost none of its fiendish sparkle – nor its
relevance to the times we live in.
Target market
Readers of ambitious contemporary literature.
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FI C T I O N
Marian Pilot
The New Wilderness
Matecznik
Keynote
A writer’s tribute to his native land, its inhabitants, and its culture.
Sales points
•Essayistic prose of the highest caliber.
Description
Pages: 336
Category:
Substantially expanded with sketches never before published in book form,
this is a reprint of a book of essays issued by LSW in 1988, printed
in the “Wilderness” series of the Regiony quarterly.
A master of Polish prose, Pilot speaks of his “small homeland,” the titular
“wilderness” – his homeland of Ostrzeszów, which he presents along with its
inhabitants in various works (in recognition of his services he was named
an honorary citizen of Ostrzeszów).
These sketches are fascinating, inventive tales written with wit and
imagination, telling the stories of Greater Poland villages, their inhabitants,
their roles, and the significance of their work, the fate of the peasants,
and about “authentists” – artists and writers of peasant stock.
Target market
Readers of ambitious contemporary literature, interested in the “peasant
movement” in Polish literature.
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FI C T I O N
Szczepan Twardoch
Szczepan Twardoch (b. 1979) – a writer and journalist, and a sociologist
by education. He has published five novels, most recently Grunwald Forever.
He lives in Pilchowice, in Upper Silesia.
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FI C T I O N
Szczepan Twardoch
Morphine
Morfina
Keynote
A rollicking novel about a man born in bad times, and a debaucherous artist
hooked on morphine, who has transformed into a demonic, dangerous,
and irresponsible conspirator, husband, and lover...
Sales points
•An original combination of the fantastic and the traditional historical novel,
with elements of political and psychological thriller.
•A unique protagonist – an unusual individual, an outsider, a powerful man, often a soldier,
and aristocrat, in conflict with the modern world, faithful to the values he espouses,
but also struggling with identity problems.
Pages: 624
Category:
Contemporary Fiction
excl. France
Description
Konstanty Willemann lives in Warsaw, but he is the son of a German aristocrat
and a Polonized Silesian woman, who does not make much of patriotic slogans
and the tradition of heroic soldiers dying for their homelands. He is a cynic,
a scoundrel, and a bon vivant. He is a cheating husband and a bad father.
Konstanty reluctantly takes part in the September Campaign, and when it
collapses, he joins a secret organization with equal reluctance. He does not
want to be a Pole or a German. He does, however, want to get his hands on
more morphine and live his old life as a barfly and a womanizer.
But you cannot escape from history.
In Morphine, Szczepan Twardoch has achieved a rare feat in Polish prose –
he has created an anti-hero whom you cannot help but like. Like the great ones
– Witkacy, Gombrowicz, Littell – the young writer knows how to show a weak,
torn human being enmeshed in history.
A crazed, trance-inducing, and bold novel.
Target market
Novel lovers of all ages, those interested in the history of Poland and alternate
realities.
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FI C T I O N
Marta Fox
Marta Fox — a writer, poet, and essayist, as well as a journalist. She has
won many literary awards. She is a member of the Stanisława Zawiszanka
Literary Award chapter, which singles out the most talented young poets.
She has written over twenty books, including the bestsellers Magda.doc,
Holy Rita of the Impossible and Shrinking Silence. On the Trials of Childhood,
with no Taboos. Her work tackles family and young people’s issues,
she writes boldly and subtly about growing up, and her every book moves
both readers and critics alike.
Fot. Janusz Stobiński
Two-time winner of the Polish Romance Literature Competition Grand Prix.
Winner of an honorary badge of Merit to Polish Culture.
Winner of a distinction from the Polish Section of the IBBY for the First Love series.
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS
English, Spanish, German
LITERACKIE
Novels
The Woman Who Turned to Stone (2009)
Zuzanna Doesn’t Exist (2011)
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FI C T I O N
Marta Fox
Zuzanna Doesn’t Exist
Zuzanna nie istnieje
Keynote
An intimate, seemingly “simple” novel that shows how two people can fall
in love.
Sales points
•The thinking woman’s “chick lit”.
•Before Sunrise for a new generation.
Description
Pages: 248
Category: Women’s fiction
A single night can change your heart for good. After Zuzanna accidentally
ends up spending the night with Paweł, neither of them is ever quite the
same again. Both have been suffering from heartbreak – she is a young
widowed painter, he has recently lost his girlfriend and his parents in an
accident. The magic in Zuzanna Doesn’t Exist comes from the characters’
slow realisation that all their expectations have been reversed – after
a “meaningless” one night stand, Paweł recognises that he has fallen in love.
When he returns to find Zuzanna, however, he finds her apartment empty.
A story of how passion turns into love, and how love conquers all, this novel
pulls off a remarkable feat – it allows itself to be outrageously sentimental
without sacrificing a bit of believability or intelligence along the way. It
might just give the old, sullied category of “chick lit” a new name.
Target market
Young women looking for sensitive, intelligent depictions of love and
passion, with characters and language they can truly relate to.
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FI C T I O N
Katarzyna Grochola
THE MOST POPULAR DRAMA NOVEL WRITER IN POLAND,
WHOSE BOOKS SELL BY THE MILLIONS
EACH OF HER BOOKS IS A MAJOR BEST-SELLER
Katarzyna Grochola was born in 1957. She currently lives near Warsaw.
Before taking up journalism, and eventually literature, she worked
as a hospital attendant, proof-reader, actress, customs-office director,
and even as a consultant in a matrimonial office. She has also worked
as a specialist in training at a democratic foundation and as a baker’s
assistant. She likes funny and wise romantic comedies, happy endings
in her own work, and jazz — Miles Davis.
Four-time winner of the Empik “AS” Award for best-selling novel (2001–2006),
Winner of the Ikar publishing prize (2001),
Tespis 2000 [playwright’s competition] awards for “Let me Depart”
and “My Cat Grew Thin”,
“Two Theaters” in Sopot — first prize for her radio play “Bigda’s Coming”
(shared with Andrzej Wajda’s presentation)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam
BOOKS BY KATARZYNA GROCHOLA ON OFFER FROM
WYDAWNICTWO LITERACKIE PUBLISHERS:
Novels
Biting the Earthworm (2004)
The Flutter of Wings (2008)
Not on Your Life! (2009)
Heart on a Sling (2009)
I’ll Show You! (2009)
The Crystal Angel (2009)
The Green Door (2010)
Houston, We Have a Problem (2012)
Short Story Collections
Authorized for Happines (2004)
Application for Love (2004)
Other
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Romantic Connections and Disconnections, a long interview
with psycho-therapist Andrzej Wiśniewski] (2002)
Tapestry
Marital and Extra-Marital Fun and Games
Loving Relationships and Break Ups
FI C T I O N
Katarzyna Grochola
The Crystal Angel
Kryształowy Anioł
Keynote
Poland’s best-loved (and best selling) author of popular women’s literature.
Sales points
•Millions of her books have been sold in Poland
Description
Pages: 544
Genre: Women’s fiction
excl. World English
You may have your doubts when we suggest that Grochola’s latest book,
The Crystal Angel, is the Hundred Years of Solitude of chick lit. But just read
the book’s first sentence — “Before Sara, on the day before her wouldbe wedding — and it was late afternoon already — spotted her future
(would-be) husband with the legs of her best friend and (would-be) maid
of honor wrapped around his rhythmically gyrating hips, she was a fairly
happy woman” — and try not to think of the opening of Marquez’s famous
novel. Having started her career as writer of lightweight, though much
adored novels, Grochola performed a risky about-face with her previous
novel, The Flutter of Wings, and began challenging her legions of readers
with subject matter and literary tactics seldom seen in the world of pop
lit. With this, her latest novel, Grochola continues the trend, depicting
a woman whose life falls apart after her (would-be) husband’s betrayal,
and the slow process of putting her life together. She does this, however,
without sacrificing any of the affirmation, passion, and fun that made her
a household name to begin with. The end result is that rarest of things —
a work of popular literature admired by the highbrow critics, and a new
classic of chick lit that women might just find their boyfriends reading
on the sly.
The incredible success of Katarzyna Grochola’s books no longer comes
as a surprise to anyone.
Janusz Wróblewski, “Polityka”
Target market
Lovers of contemporary popular literature, dramatic novels, psychological
dramas, women’s prose; inspirational books.
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FI C T I O N
Katarzyna Grochola
The Flutter of Wings
Trzepot skrzydeł
Keynote
The dark side of love, the bright face of courage: Helen Fielding meets
Joanne Trollope
Sales points
•Almost 200,000 copies sold up to day.
Description
Pages: 170
excl. World English
Rights sold: Russia, Vietnam,
The Ukraine
The Flutter of Wings is the tale of a young woman who has a husband,
a job and her own home. Everything is seemingly brilliant, as if our
protagonist has everything, and yet Hanka does not radiate happiness.
Behind closed doors, when no one’s looking, her life turns into
a nightmare that she can’t wake up from. For her orderly, well-earning
husband she’s the most important thing there is. Unfortunately, her love
is tragic. But when he makes Hanka lose something of true value in her
life, she decides to free herself from her cul-de-sac of weakness, fear
and powerlessness, forging new ties with the person who might be closest
to her, in a twist ending that catches you off guard.
This is a spine-tingling, startling and intelligent tale about overcoming
your fears, having the right to decide for yourself, and finally — about how
miracles really do happen.
An outstanding book by Katarzyna Grochola… Real literature, splendidly written.
Theatrical perfection… The tension grows with every page…
M. Małkowska, “Rzeczpospolita”
Target market
dramas, women’s prose; inspirational books
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FI C T I O N
Katarzyna Grochola
The Green Door
Zielone drzwi
Keynote
The most personal and revealing novel yet by Poland’s reigning queen of the
bestsellers.
Sales points
•Every one of Grochola’s books has topped the bestseller charts, though she continues to
challenge her readers with new and sometimes difficult themes.
•A behind-the-scenes look at the life of an inspiring woman.
Description
Pages: 408
Katarzyna Grochola has been saying for years that the most fascinating
plots are written by real life. As if now setting out to prove her point, she
has come out with an openly autobiographical novel – and unsurprisingly,
it is a compulsively readable and life-affirming chronicle of one woman’s path
to become a writer. This took her on a side-track studying medicine (Grochola
was convinced that every great writer had once been a medical doctor, and thus
studied medicine to become a writer), through several relationships, a marriage
and a divorce, a journey to Libya, and a cancerous illness, among many other
events. The style and panache that have endeared Grochola to hundreds of
thousands across Poland are still front and center in this latest novel, and
though she spares her readers none of the heartbreaks of her experience –
the descriptions of her work in the hospital are particularly harrowing – one
ultimately comes away from reading The Green Door fortified, uplifted, and filled
with a sense of wonder at the remarkable things that a life can bring. As she
herself writes: “Every event I write about is real. Every person I write about
truly existed. Every love of mine was real. This is my life. All of it hidden behind
the green door, one of many . . . I shan’t open it wide, just only a crack. Behind
the green one is another – perhaps scarlet? And behind the scarlet one . . .”
With The Green Door we have a chance to get to know the author of our favorite
books, to understand their protagonists, and to believe at last that real life really does
write the best plot lines.
Aleksandra Dylejko, “Dziennik baltycki”
For years Katarzyna Grochola has been conquering the hearts of hundreds of
thousands of faithful readers. They draw strength, hope and faith in their own
capabilities from the protagonists of her books.
“Super nowosci”
Target market
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Those who adore true stories, autobiographies, or life stories of successful
people, as well as those in search of inspiration, who enjoy themes of triumph
over adversity.
FI C T I O N
Katarzyna Grochola
Houston, We Have a Problem
Houston, mamy problem
Keynote
The latest novel by the best-selling author.
Sales points
• A startling novel – maintained, as usual, in Grochola’s dazzling and witty style – which
is sure to win the hearts of not only Katarzyna Grochola’s faithful readers, but also
stands a chance to conquer new fans – among them men.
Description
Pages: 608
The protagonist of the novel is Jeremiasz, a kind and sharp thirty-two-year-old
who has found himself at a crossroads in life. He is a fantastically talented
camera operator, but he has shown himself to be too correct and
uncompromising to make a career in film. Out of work, he quickly becomes
strapped for money, and needs to pay off his apartment. He can’t live with his
mother, after all, who is always meddling in his life. Jeremiasz knows plenty
about women. Heck, he knows everything, maybe even a bit more,
because wherever he happens to be there’s a woman – whether it’s his mother,
or his neighbor on his floor, or his neighbor’s daughter, or Zmora from the floor
below, or his friend, who you can talk to just like one of the guys. But they all
want something from him, and each one surprises him in some way.
Jeremiasz loves the single life, but this is a mask, because he is fascinated
by women and never ceases to be delighted by them. Women – the true
protagonists of this novel – astonish him, and in following his fortunes
we realize that he never knows about or truly understands any of them,
and that life with a woman is hell, but life without one even worse…
Houston, We Have a Problem is a novel about love. Read it and be moved,
but also laugh, for it is filled with warmth, humor, and gentle irony, which
Katarzyna Grochola uses to sketch her protagonist.
Target market
Lovers of contemporary pop literature, women’s literature, “feel-good” books,
books about everyday life, psychological novels, and romantic comedies.
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FI C T I O N
Grażyna Jeromin-Gałuszka
Grażyna Jeromin-Gałuszka was born in Sosnowiec. She has won the contest
organized by the Polish Script Agency and the Film weekly magazine.
She co‑owns a bookshop in Radom. Her debut novel – Golden Bats –
has been awarded the first prize in a literary contest „The Colours of Life”.
Her latest novel – Women from the Swamp has sold 10 000 copies.
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FI C T I O N
Grażyna Jeromin-Gałuszka
Don’t Leave Me
Nie zostawiaj mnie
Keynote
A charming and accessible tale of a friendship that spans generations.
Sales points
• Jeromin-Gałuszka’s first novel sold upwards of 10,000 copies
• Winner of an award for her first novel, and of a screenplay writing award
Description
Pages: to come
Category: Women’s Fiction
Fryderyka is a headstrong old woman who loves to play bridge, and who one
day takes in Małgorzata under her roof.
Małgorzata is a young woman at a turning point in her life, whose whole
existence revolves around her young daughter, and whose life is being
effectively poisoned by Aleksander.
Aleksander is Fryderyka’s nephew, a retired judge whose heart still aches
from the tragic death of a beloved woman.
What links these three seemingly so different people?
Jeromin-Gałuszka’s book is a tale that that the reader takes to heart,
a world that pulls you in until the final page.
Target market
Readers of popular women’s literature.
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FI C T I O N
Katarzyna Michalak
Katarzyna Michalak (b. 1969) – writer, author of books for the women’s
prose market. She self-published her first novel in a print run of twenty
copies. Four years later, she has had two books on the Polish nationwide
bestseller lists, and has already written another few books. Her first book,
Poczekajka, was promoted in an unconventional way – with a song
and a music video, financed entirely by the author.
BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR PUBLISHED
BY WYDAWNICTWO LITERACKIE
Novels
A Year in Poziomka (2010)
Summer in Jagódka (2011)
Return to Poziomka (2011)
The Cherry Manor (2012)
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FI C T I O N
Katarzyna Michalak
A Year in Poziomka
Rok w Poziomce
Keynote
A best-selling writer adored by female readers of all ages.
Sales points
•A writer who has proven her ability to really speak to readers.
Description
Pages: 312
Ewa is a thirty-something woman who has already lived a full life, as they
say. She has finally decided to take the plunge and to move into the home
of her dreams. But like everything in life, this dream has its price: to earn
enough money for her dream home in the forest, Ewa has to take up work
in a handsome friend’s publishing house. Her job is to find the next big
thing, a sure-fire bestseller. And this is where the adventure begins...
A captivating story of people who find happiness just when they thought it
was too late. It is about a pair of charming protagonists who learn that all
the good you put into the world is paid back with interest. And ultimately,
about how dreams always do come true – if you let them.
Target market
Readers of “chick lit,” readers taking their first steps into literature.
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FI C T I O N
Katarzyna Michalak
Summer in Jagódka
Lato w Jagódce
Keynote
A best-selling writer adored by female readers of all ages.
Sales points
•This author’s previous books have hit numerous best-seller lists across the country,
selling upwards of 10,000 copies.
•A highly prolific author with an intimate understanding of her readers’ needs.
Description
Pages: 284
Katarzyna Michałak’s latest offering is a charming fairy-tale whose action
takes place in modern-day Poland. The protagonist is a girl who turns from
an ugly duckling to a swan – she goes from working in a Carrefour
supermarket to taking part in a beauty pageant in Cyprus. All through these
changes, however, she remembers her one true love – a boy who has been
wrongly accused of committing a crime and incorrectly diagnosed with an
illness.
Summer in Jagódka is a modern-day fairy-tale about love, and about universal
beauty hidden behind a mask of appearances.
Target market
Readers of “chick lit,” readers taking their first steps into literature.
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FI C T I O N
Katarzyna Michalak
Return to Poziomka
Powrót do Poziomki
Keynote
A book about the Polish Bridget Jones, who learns that it is never clear
what price dreams come at, how much must be paid for love and what will
actually turn out to be precious in life…
Sales points
•Each of her books becomes a bestseller.
•One of the most highly publicised debuts of the last few years.
Description
Pages: 296
Katarzyna Michalak, in the sequel to the best-selling A Year in Poziomka,
will take us not only to a beautiful Polish village, to places both familiar
and unknown, but on an exotic voyage to India, while guaranteeing
a multiplicity of thrills, surprising plot twists, powerful emotions, laughter
and tears, and also splendid tales about the animals without which
Poziomka would not be Poziomka. Day by day, month by month, the author
weaves a tale of people who contain genuine, sincere goodness. Yet even
they are not devoid of weaknesses and vices, as they complete difficult
choices, make mistakes and hurt their loved ones. The story holds its charm,
keeping the reader in a state of suspense until the final page. Will it all
end well?…
Target market
dramas, women’s prose, inspirational books.
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FI C T I O N
Katarzyna Michalak
The Cherry Manor
Wiśniowy Dworek
Keynote
Another novel by the best-selling author of women’s fiction.
Sales points
•A well–recognized author, adored by her faithful female readership.
•A tribute to values that most readers hold dear: the family, home, honest work, devotion
to one’s friends etc.
Description
forthcoming
Pages: to come
The Cherry Manor is a tale of love, and its main protagonists are sisters; though
they are twins, one is very romantic, and the other very, very cautious – or
perhaps these are only facades? Danusia dutifully carries the torch of education
in a village near Sejny, living in an old, beautiful manor, which also houses
her school. Danka works in a Warsaw corporation and holds down a decent spot
in the rat race. Danka and Danusia live in different worlds, but both are lonely
and missing something in life – most of all, true love. They do not know
about each other – as in the old stories – their mother died in childbirth,
and they were separated at birth. Danusia was raised by a tyrannical father,
and Danka by a lovely couple of Warsaw doctors. And perhaps the sisters would
never have met if the mysterious Karol Miłosz vel Jakub Liszt vel Daniel
van der Welt had not appeared on the horizon, with Interpol hot on his trail.
The handsome and mysterious Roger also appears, attracting both the twins
during their stay at a seaside spa.
Who will be the first to find love and happiness?
The Cherry Manor is a light and optimistic story that is sure to move numerous
readers.
In spite of the hardships and the dark clouds hovering over the protagonists,
the story is idyllic, particularly in the descriptions of the charming village
and the titular manor. It resembles an old-fashioned fairy tale about luckless
orphans who unexpectedly find happiness. It has an attractive plot with plenty
of twists and turns, and it all spins as gently as a merry-go-round.
Target market
Readers of “chick lit” novels and heartwarming, optimistic fiction.
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FI C T I O N
Janusz Leon Wiśniewski
ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR POLISH WRITERS;
MILLIONS OF READERS ENTHUSIASTICALLY SNAP UP
EVERY ONE OF HIS BOOKS.
EACH OF HIS BOOKS IS A MAJOR BEST-SELLER.
HE HAS AN EXCELLENT RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS READERS —
SINCE HIS DEBUT, HE HAS RECEIVED HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF EMAILS FROM HIS ADMIRERS.
Janusz Leon Wiśniewski (b. 1954) graduated in economics and physics from
the Copernicus University in Torun. He defended his PhD at the Warsaw
Technical Academy in computer sciences. His post-doctorate was in
chemistry, at the Łódź Technical University. He works in a company
that makes information systems for chemists. He has published: @lone in the
Internet (2001), Tension Units (2002), @lone in the Internet: Triptych (2003),
Recurring Destiny (2004), An Intimate Theory of Relativity (2005), Molecules of
Emotion (2006), Does the World Need Men? (2007), and Scenes from the Other
Side of the Wall (2008), Close-up (2010), Blood Flow (2011), My Greatest Intimacy
(2012)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS
Russia, Croatia, Ukraine, Czech Republic
BOOKS BY JANUSZ L. WIŚNIEWSKI ON OFFER
FROM WYDAWNICTWO LITERACKIE PUBLISHERS
Short Story Collections
A Private Relativity Theory (2005)
Molecules of Emotion (2006)
Scenes from the Life through the Wall (2008)
Close-up (2010)
Blood Flow (2011)
My Greatest Intimacy (2012)
Other
Does the World Need Men? (2007)
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FI C T I O N
Janusz Wiśniewski
Blood Flow
Ukrwienia
Keynote
A collection of thoughts and reflections by one of Poland’s best-selling
authors.
Sales points
•An author whose every book is a sales event.
•Insightful, warm, and a pleasure to read.
Description
Pages: 110
Rights sold: Russia
Poland’s best-loved writer of popular novels and editorials returns
with another collection of newspaper columns to cherish and to enjoy.
Wiśniewski’s light-hearted psychological insights into male-female
relationships and the ways of the world have already won over millions
of readers in Poland and well beyond its borders.
Target market
Readers in search of an accessible bedside read that will leave them with
much food for thought; readers of essays and inventive newspaper columns.
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FI C T I O N
Janusz Leon Wiśniewski
My Greatest Intimacy
Moja bliskość największa
Keynote
A new collection of tales by the master of the short prose form.
Sales Points
•Janusz Wiśniewski sketches sensitive portraits of people with whom he has spoken,
and whom he is unable to forget – even if the meeting was extremely fleeting.
Description
Pages: 88
Category:
Women’s Fiction
Damian has a photographic memory and a talent for foreign languages.
He is autistic. Now he’s maturing. A “sexual assistant” helps him to enter
the world of the erotic. Bettina searches for love on the popular dating sites.
She has been let down a couple of times, but she has not given up hope.
Will she find the love of her life? Patryk has everything he could dream of.
His father, a combine producer, ensures him the best education, buys him
apartments and cars. But Patryk has another dream – he would prefer to
arrange flowers in a small florist’s shop. Wiśniewski is a master of the short
form. Using a few images, sometimes only a few sentences, he can evoke
the truth about human nature. Nobody writes like him about sexuality,
dreams, mysteries, and painful disappointments. My Greatest Intimacy compiles
true stories of people who live in various places – in Moscow, in Bora-Bora
or in Russian villages – but whom dream the same dreams of intimacy and love.
Wiśniewski’s stories show us a great truth: that happiness and longing always
share the same face – regardless of latitude or longitude, age, or skin color.
Target market
Readers in search of an accessible bedside read that will leave them with much
food for thought; readers of essays and inventive newspaper columns.
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FI C T I O N
Marek S. Huberath
Marek S. Huberath pen name (b. 1954) made his debut as a SciFi author
in 1987 with the short story Wróciłeś Sneogg, wiedziałam… (You is back,
Sneogg, I knew it…), which won the first prize in the Fantastyka perodical
competition. He is the author of the novels: Gniazdo Światów (The Nest
of the Worlds), Druga podobizna w alabastrze (Another Effigy in Alabaster),
Ostatni, którzy wyszli z raju (The Last to Leave Paradise), Miasta pod skałą
(The Cities Under the Rock), Balsam długiego pożegnania (The Balm of a Long
Farewell) and short stories. He has won numerous awards, including three
Janusz A. Zajdel awards and the Śląkfa award. His books come out very
rarely to the effect that every new one generates a highly emotional
response from both readers and critics. He works and lives in Krakow.
A physicist by profession, he does research on biological systems.
A passionate lover of third-rate horror movies and insects.
Huberath’s works have been translated into English, Russian, and Czech.
The short story Kara większa (The Major Penalty) appeared in English
in The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy, Dedalus/Hippocrene, 1996,
while its Czech version (Vysoky trest), translated by P. Weigel, was included
in an anthology published by Laser Books, 2003.
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FI C T I O N
Marek S. Huberath
Vatran Auraio
Vatran Auraio
Keynote
Another immensely talented and popular Polish writer of literary sciencefiction, in the great tradition of Stanisław Lem (Solaris).
Sales points
•An established name in Polish literary fantastic novels, who keeps getting better and
better with each book.
•A writer with a true ‘cult’ following.
Description
Pages: 520
Category:
Science fiction & fantasy
Marek S. Huberath is a university biology professor by day, and by night he
gives vent to all the fascinating daydreams that fill his head. His hotlyawaited new book, Vatran Auraio, takes place on another planet, giving the
biologist plenty of opportunities to invent new and outlandish species of
plant and animal life. But the main focus of this fantastical novel is the
people, and what has become of them. Our protagonist’s job is to wander
about spreading knowledge of the old customs and heritage to a world in
utter regression; where everything of value is being forgotten, diseases are
lethal and utterly rampant, and the immediate result of copulation is the
inevitable death of both partners. Bleak, terrifying, and more than a little
familiar, Vatran offers more proof of the strength of Huberath’s imagination,
and reinforces his position as one of Poland’s leading writers of the thinking
man’s science-fiction novel.
Marek S. Huberath, one of the finest writers in the history of Polish fantastical
novels, has combined science fiction with a treatise on death and decay in his
latest work, Vatran Auraio. The effect is astonishing.
Jakub Demiańczuk, “Dziennik Gazeta”
Huberath is one of the most original Polish writers of fantastical novels. [...] He
has created a visual metaphor of a people who less and less understand the
processes they are helping to create
“Dziennik Elblaski”
Vatran Auraio is thus chiefly a novel about the tragedy of forgetting. It is
beautiful and very sad, and asks us questions that we never thought even existed.
Paweł Dunin-Wąsowicz, “Lampa”
Target market
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Readers looking for entirely new directions in science-fiction and fantastical
literature; readers who normally never touch these genres, but who
appreciate intelligent and sometimes philosophical reflection on the bigger
issues.
FI C T I O N
Łukasz Orbitowski
ONE OF POLAND’S MOST POPULAR FANTASY WRITERS
CONSIDERED POLAND’S ANSWER TO STEPHEN KING
Łukasz Orbitowski (b. 1977) is by education a philosopher, and by fondness
a bodybuilder, who has cut his teeth on the fantasy, avant-garde and realist
writers. He writes a dense prose with protagonists standing up against
the challenges of both this world and the next. Representing the serio-comic
movement in Polish literature, he has developed a dashing, unpretentious
and original style. He’s unafraid to experiment, and writes in blood, sweat
and vodka. He is one of Poland’s few horror writers. His books include short
stories (the collections Bad Coastlines, 1999, Paint Everything Deep and Wide,
2002, and The Dogs of Christmas Eve, 2005), novels (Horror show, 2006,
I’m Losing Warmth, 2007, The Dog and the Priest: Against Everything, 2007).
He also writes journalism and editorials, edits, and reviews books and films.
He is a happy father, and the owner of two cats. He lives in Krakow,
and attended elementary school in Krakow’s Kaziemierz, where the action
of his most well-known book — I’m Losing Warmth — takes place. He is now
working on his latest novel, Holy Wrocław.
Nautilus Award for Horror show;
Krakow Book of the Month Award for I’m Losing Warmth
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR IN THE WYDAWNICTWO LITERACKIE
PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE:
Novels
I’m Losing Warmth (2006)
Holy Wrocław (2009)
It’s Coming (2010)
Phantoms (2012)
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FI C T I O N
Łukasz Orbitowski
Holy Wrocław
Święty Wrocław
Keynote
A horror ballad about a country of prophets, pilgrims and madmen, of a city
of first loves, of a spring of nine miracles, of approaching catastrophe,
written with a skill worthy of Stephen King.
Sales points
•Another book from the Polish master of fantasy and horror
•Extremely favorable reviews from critics and readers alike
Description
Pages: 296
Category: Science fiction &
fantasy
This time the action takes place in apartment blocks, where neither devils
nor spirits reside, but rather a second settlement. The haunted residents
abandon their lives to demolish their own homes — under a huge tile there
lies a hot, black surface. More and more people come to this remarkable
settlement with each passing day, the gawpers, believers and researchers
multiply, madness takes hold of the administration and the media…
I don’t want to give away the story, because in Holy Wrocław — apart from the
unsettling atmosphere, the vivid images and the believable characters —suspense
and intrigue are very important, with their dose of black humor.
Adrian Chorębała, “Machina”
Nothing in an Orbitowski horror is taken for granted. There are no cheap tricks
familiar from novels of this sort, no gratuitous blood and guts fly. Orbisowski has
created the terrifying with a skill worthy of the master of the genre, Stephen King.
And as with the American master, every scene leads us one step closer to
catastrophe.
Agnieszka Kolodyńska, “Gazeta Wyborcza Wrocław”
Target market
Lovers of horror, thrillers, fantasy, and books full of suspense.
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FI C T I O N
Łukasz Orbitowski
It’s Coming
Nadchodzi
Sales points
•Wildly imaginative explorations of the darker side of reality
•A crossover writer who will appeal to both fans of the horror genre and those who
normally keep their distance from it
Description
Łukasz Orbitowski prefers to write about the daytime. This is just one small
way in which his work departs from the cliches we expect from horror
writing, a genre much maligned by “serious” readers. Orbitowski is wise
enough to know that horror is most compelling in carefully measured doses
– and has clearly read enough Edgar Allen Poe to know what the genre is
capable of doing. The key to these short stories is their careful balance
between reality and the fantastic. The hospital that cures souls instead of
bodies could very well be the crazed hallucination of a woman undergoing
a traumatic pregnancy. A home where many infamies are committed might
be literally pursuing an old man, or it may be a metaphor for the
inescapability of the past. Orbitowski is clever enough to leave these
ambiguities unresolved in his fictions, which is why they are much more
than a guilty pleasure, and are avidly read by people who normally keep
a safe distance from “genre fiction.” Ultimately, the most disturbing part
about these tales of the fantastic is that they remind us very much of the
world we know and live in.
Pages: 404
Category: Short stories
Reading Orbitowski’s latest collection of short stories, I wondered what was really
so compelling here (because it is compelling). The allure of the plots? The sureness
of the author’s literary craft? All this and more.
Robert Ostaszewski, “Gazeta Wyborcza”
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FI C T I O N
Łukasz Orbitowski
Phantoms
Widma
Keynote
History, gore, science fiction, literary fireworks and conspiracy theories,
Orbitowski’s Phantoms is a tour de force that imagines an entirely different
post-war history for Poland.
Sales points
• An author with a strong following among philosophical sci-fi/horror enthusiasts in Poland,
with major crossover potential
• Nominee for the Zajdel Award for literature of the fantastic
Description
Pages: 620
Category: Science fiction
& fantasy
Can science fiction that imagines an alternate history also be high literature?
Łukasz Orbitowski votes yes, and in this, his most accomplished novel
to date, he makes a compelling case for it. Here the Warsaw Uprising is
imagined with an entirely different conclusion, without a shot being fired.
A famous young poet who perished during the Uprising, Krzysztof Kamil
Baczyński, becomes the protagonist of our imaginary history – he is forced
to grapple with the Russian occupation, and writes a novel in the Social Realist
vein. The novel has three major sub-plots – a mystical one, involving a box
with the power to change the course of history, the story of the protagonists,
who were meant to have died in the Uprising, and the story of Wiktor,
a militiaman who was once a loyal friend of the people who almost participated
in the uprising. Will the country be saved this time around? Ten novels into his
literary career, Orbitowski is in top form.
Target market
Readers of fantasy, literature detailing alternate histories, and conspiracy theory
novels.
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FI C T I O N
Michał Protasiuk
Michał Protasiuk was born in 1978, but now he lives and works in Poznań.
He does his everyday work as a research marketer and reads such authors
as Dostoyevski and Pynchon with equal fascination. He is inspired
by the transformations of the contemporary world, alternative rock music,
and travels to the former Soviet Republics.
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FI C T I O N
Michał Protasiuk
Revolution Day
Święto rewolucji
Keynote
Marketing forces, the power of information, murder and love in the big
corporations – a brilliant thriller recalling the film Inception and the best
work of William Gibson.
Sales points
•Winner of the Jerzy Żuławski Literary Award
•Recalls Inception and the best work of William Gibson
Description
Pages: 476
Category: Science fiction &
fantasy
Marcin is an analyst who develops marketing strategies that give him
insight into the desires of all the world’s consumers. Agnieszka is a student,
once a hoodlum whose housing estate was once visited by the Messiah.
Dorota would be an ordinary girl, if it weren’t for the fact that someone has
just written a book that is controlling her life. Marek, in turn, is a manager
who has taken part in an experiment meant to prove that life is eternal.
This foursome of young Poles are tossed into a world of global conspiracies
and fascinating riddles, to grapple with the questions: Is history ruled
by mathematical laws? What links a Polish 19th-century mathematician
with a book that has changed the reality of the 21st century? What mystery
lurks within the Poznań Settlement of the Excluded? Will the revolution take
place?
“The basic attraction of Revolution Day comes from its sensational plot.
The author’s inventiveness is also impressive. We are dealing with a book that
is coming true all around the reader: scientific evidence of the afterlife through
cryptography, statistical dream maps etc. And there is a third level, a more subtle
and affecting one, which also happens to be deeper: after we finish reading
we ourselves look at the world as a game of hyper-capitalists, marketing trends,
and subterranean mathematical structures. This is the nightmare of Revolution
Day’s protagonist: he can’t tell product brands apart.”
Jacek Dukaj
Target market
Those who love thrillers, action novels, and fantasy, who are interested
in the contemporary world, globalization, and marketing.
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Henryk Ćwięk
Henryk Ćwięk is a professor of Political Science at the Długosz Academy
in Częstochowa. He has written several books on the inter-war period
in Polish-German-Russian history, including a small previous publication
on Captain Sosnowski.
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Henryk Ćwięk
Captain Sosnowski
Rotmistrz Sosnowski
Keynote
The untold story of Poland’s answer to James Bond.
Sales points
•A true story with more thrilling twists and turns than the most well-crafted novel.
•The tale of a forgotten historical figure whose life remains shrouded in a veil of
mystery.
Description
Who really was Jerzy Sosnowski? He was most certainly a promising future
captain of the Polish cavalry, born into an extremely affluent noble family.
We know for certain that his career was derailed by a scandalous affair with
the fiancée of a head officer. It is established that he moved to Berlin, still
before Hitler’s rise to power, to work as a secret agent. And it is also known
that he was so irresistible to women that many of those whom he seduced
came to actually assist him in his spy work. We are also informed that he
was apprehended by the Germans after Hitler seized control of the
government, that two of the women helping him were beheaded, and that
Poland eventually exchanged him for some German spies in 1936. Now,
however, the questions begin: Did he in fact return to Poland as a German
double-agent? Was he wrongfully imprisoned for fifteen years? What really
happened to him after that? And to return to our original question – who
really was Jerzy Sosnowski? Ćwięk has written a rollicking, entertaining and
profoundly informative book about one of Poland’s most enigmatic figures
from between the two world wars.
Pages: 296
Category: History
This is a figure who is somewhat forgotten – and it’s a shame, because he worked
with real bravura, in an unconventional way, and very effectively. The life of the
protagonist of Henryk Ćwięk’s book could serve as the canvas for a splendid spy
thriller movie.
Echo Katolickie
Target market
Readers of thrillers, spy novels, history books (especially pertaining to World
War II and inter-war Berlin); those interested in discovering a particularly
colourful new biography.
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Ryszard Kaczmarek
Ryszard Kaczmarek (b. 1959) – a historian and humanities professor
who researches the history of World War Two in lands incorporated
into the Third Reich, and the history of Upper Silesia in the 19th and
20th centuries. He has written several books, including Under the
Rule of the Gauleiters. The Elite and Instances of Power in the Katowice
Regierungsbezirk, 1939–1945, Upper Silesia during World War Two, and Poles
in the Wehrmacht (published by WL).
OTHER BOOKS FOR WL
Poles in the Wehrmacht (2011)
Poles in the Keiser’s Army During World War One (2012)
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Ryszard Kaczmarek
Poles in the Wehrmacht
Polacy w Wermachcie
Keynote
An unflinching and groundbreaking look at the Polish participation in Nazi
German armies and the moral quandaries it involved.
Sales points
•A subject which has long been awaiting such thorough treatment
•A sober and humane treatment of a subject that still rouses much emotion both
in Poland and abroad
•Richly supplied with photographs and source materials
Description
Pages: 448
Category: History
There are books one reads because they are important, and others one reads
because they are so compellingly written. Poles in the Wehrmacht will be read
for both reasons. Based in part on newly-discovered archival materials,
Professor Ryszard Kaczmarek’s (of Silesian University) book reveals
the uncomfortable fact that as many as half a million Poles were recruited
for the Nazi army during World War II, mainly from the regions of Silesia
and Pomerania, with their large volksdeutsche populations. Far from settling
for blanket accusations of treachery, Professor Kaczmarek delves into their
motivations, and finds everything from a sense of family responsibility
(potential soldiers’ families were threatened with deportation
to concentration camps if their son did not support the Reich) to Wanderlust
(the author finds soldiers’ letters from France, Italy, or Greece filled
with pastoral descriptions of wine, sun, and women). Again and again,
Kaczmarek stresses – and convincingly proves – that the ethical motivations
and responses of Poles in the Wehrmacht were as various as there are
personalities in Poland. In other words, this is a history book that seeks less
to generalize than to show the almost unbelievable complexity
of a phenomenon that often evokes one-dimensional emotions. And this is
ultimately the great value of Poles in the Wehrmacht – whatever our stance
towards the issue when we begin reading the book, we are sure to find it
complicated, problematized, and perhaps ultimately shattered by the book’s
end.
In the People’s Republic-era Poland this history was passed over in silence,
and moreover, now we have access to sources that were previously unknown.
This publication [...] makes an essential contribution to our knowledge on the
subject.
Andrzej Kaczorowski, “Wiedza i zycie”
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The detailed research [in this book] has given birth to a tale that delves into
a topic as unpopular as it is controversial. After all, the image we had created
after the war was one-dimensional, clearly saying that Poles refused all
collaboration with the occupants. But the truth turns out to be far more cruel and
shameful – some of our countrymen were posed with difficult decisions, and were
often forced to devote themselves to the Third Reich. There are still Poles living
today for whom this history is a nightmare to recall, or a shameful secret.
“Echo katolickie”
After 1989 much was written about our countrymen in the Wehrmacht. But now
we have a real hit on our hands. Professor Ryszard Kaczmarek’s Poles in the
Wehrmacht stands to become a bestseller. This is a solidly documented, brilliantly
written work that pulls you in from the first page till the last.
Rafał Geremek, “Newsweek”
Target market
Readers interested in challenging their own perspectives on history, those
interested in World War II and the moral conflicts involved, those in search
of books that handle taboo subjects in a graceful manner.
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Ryszard Kaczmarek
Poles in the Kaiser’s Army
during World War One
Polacy w armii Kajzera podczas I wojny światowej
Keynote
The fates of Polish soldiers written into a scene where the Great War is being
waged: into mighty military operations and army mobilizations.
Sales points
•A book by a respected historian
Description
Forthcoming
Pages: to come
Category: History
The history of Polish soldiers who fought in the ranks of the Prussian army
during World War One, in divisions that stretched from Pomeranian Gdańsk
through Greater Poland to Upper Silesia. Their tale has a tragic dimension –
for Poles, belonging to the conscription army necessitated fighting their own
countrymen.
Using a very wide range of materials, including memoirs, Kaczmarek
also presents – as in Poles in the Wehrmacht – the individual fates of people
who were, over time, to co-create the Polish army, the foundation
of independence.
No one before has told this story of thousands of Poles in Prussian uniform.
The hundred-year anniversary of the First World War seems an apt time
to do this.
This publication is illustrated, and includes appendices and maps.
Target market
Those interested in history, particularly that of the 20th century, of
the military, and the history of Poland; those hunting for books that
demythologize Polish history.
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Bogusław Kopka
Bogusław Kopka (b. 1969) is a graduate of the History Department
of the Warsaw University. He received his doctoral degree in 2006.
He has published articles in Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Wyborcza, Nasz
Dziennik, Polska. The Times, Polityka, Wprost, Ozon. He is the author
of Stan wojenny w dokumentach władz PRL 1980–1983, IPN 2001
(co‑authored with G. Majchrzak), Obozy pracy w Polsce 1944–1950. Przewodnik
encyklopedyczny, Ośrodek KARTA 2002, Konzentrationslager Warschau. Historia
i następstwa, IPN 2007 (German edition: Das KZ Warschau, 2010). He has
worked in the Institute of National Remembrance.
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Bogusław Kopka
A Gulag on the Vistula.
On Labor Camps in Poland
Gułag nad Wisłą. O polskich obozach zagłady
Keynote
A seldom-explored chapter of Polish history is finally given an in-depth
analysis.
Sales points
•The author is a seasoned historian and journalist, who has written for all of the most
important newspapers and periodicals in Poland and published several books
• Readable, comprehensive, and fascinating
Forthcoming
Pages: to come
Category: History
Description
This thoroughly researched and groundbreaking work of history attempts
to tell the story of the labor camps that were set up in Poland immediately
after World War II by the Soviet occupants, and the extraordinary complexity
of the post‑war situation in Poland in general. A figure who embodies
this complexity, and who serves as the focus of the third chapter, is Salomon
Morel, the only one in his family to survive imprisonment in the Auschwitz
concentration camp. At the war’s end, as a twenty-year-old man, he joined
the communist partisans, and headed one of the largest (concentration)
camps for Poles, established in Silesia. A Gulag on the Vistula provides maps,
historical background, and timelines, explores the fates of women
and children during this period, and provides a fascinating glimpse
into an astonishingly chaotic and turbulent period in Polish history.
Target market
Readers interested in recent history, the history of Europe, and the aftermath
of World War Two, and those eager to fill in “gaps” in the popular history
books.
68
Grzegorz Motyka
Grzegorz Motyka (b. 1967) – a historian, journalist, and employee
at the Polish Academy of Sciences Political Studies Institute. He has written
and co authored several books, including How It Was in Bieszczady.
Polish/Ukrainian Struggles in Poland 1943-1948 (recipient of the Przegląd
Wschodni Award and the Polityka History Award) and The Ukrainian Partisan
1942–1960: The Activities of the Ukrainian Nationalist Organizations
and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Klio Award). The author of numerous
academic and popular‑science articles, published in many magazines,
including Zeszyty Historyczne, Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka, and Newsweek.
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Grzegorz Motyka
From the Volhynia Massacre
to Operation Vistula.
Polish/Ukrainian Conflicts 1943–1947
Od rzezi wołyńskiej do akcji „Wisła”. Konflikt polsko-ukraiński 1943–1947
Keynote
A picture of the most difficult period in the histories of two nations – Poland
and Ukraine – which will long endure in the memory.
Sales points
•The first popular-science book on Polish/Ukrainian relations in the years 1943–1947
•The winner of many awards
Pages: 524
Category: History
Rights sold: The Ukraine
Description
Tens of thousands of slain civilians, including women, children, and the elderly,
thousands of torched villages and towns, over one and a half million people
resettled, forced to leave their homelands and their livelihoods – here is the
terrifying picture of the history Poland shares with Ukraine.
The first popular history book serving as a full outline of Polish/Ukrainian
relations from 1943–1947. The author presents the course of the bloody conflict
that took place between the Poles and Ukrainians, whose chronological
framework is bookended by two frequently cited historical events: the Volhynia
Massacre, the ethnic cleansing performed upon the Poles by Ukrainian
nationalists in 1943, and Operation Vistula, the forced displacement
of Ukrainians from Southeast Poland. The chilling outcome of the conflict
continues to haunt the collective memory of both Poles and Ukrainians.
Grzegorz Motyka presents these events as the central point of a wider picture,
which also includes Polish/Soviet relations and the battles between the Red
Army and the Polish Partisans in the borderlands during the war, Operation
Storm, and the Soviet repressions, the January offensive, the Trial of Sixteen,
and the resettlement of Poles and collectivization of villages that followed. He
depicts the events from not only a Polish perspective, but to a large degree from
a Russian one as well, using materials found in Moscow archives, among others.
“This sums up the professor’s many years of research, but perhaps above all it is an
attempt to find the right concepts and words not only to describe the dramatic events
of decades past, but also to give them a dimension divorced of ethics, to situate them
in the contemporary reflections on war crimes, genocide, guilt, and punishment that
have been put forward since 1945.”
Target market
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Wiesław Władyka, Polityka
Readers interested in contemporary Polish history, political and military history,
heroes of the resistance against communist power, and the history of the Polish
borderlands
Grzegorz Motyka
The hunt is on for the White Poles…
The battle between the NKVD
(Soviet Secret Service) and the Polish
underground, 1944–1953
Na Białych Polaków obława… Walka NKWD z polskim podziemiem 1944–1953
Keynote
A book on the “forgotten Polish-Soviet war”
Sales points
•A field of Polish-Russian history that has never before been thoroughly described
and documented .
forthcoming
Pages: to come
Category: History
Description
The Soviets had rushed the footbridge. The crew of the first armored car
shot with its Spłonka anti-aircraft machine gun, and the second vehicle
was destroyed by a grenade. Soon the partisans had eliminated the Soviet
command, and the enemy scattered in disarray.
When did these events occur? In May 1945, immediately following the German
capitulation, in Stocki Forest. This is only one example – there were a great
number of conflicts like it in post-war Poland. Contrary to popular opinion,
the post-Home-Army underground was fought not only by armies under
the authorities of a vassalized Poland, but also by their Soviet allies: the NKVD,
SMERSH, and the NKGB. This was a forgotten Polish-Soviet war, waged by
“doomed soldiers,” and it took many different guises.
Grzegorz Motyka shows these events as the center point of a vast canvas,
including Polish-Soviet relations and the struggles between the Red Army
and the Polish partisans in the borderlands during the war, Operation
Storm and the Soviet repressions that followed, the January offensive,
the trial of sixteen, the deportation of Poles from the Eastern lands,
and the collectivisation of the villages. He sees the events from both a Polish
and a Russian point of view, making use of materials from Moscow archives.
Target market
Readers interested in modern Polish history, political and military history,
heroes of the resistance against the Communist powers, and the history
of the Polish borderlands.
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Andrzej Pepłoński
Andrzej Pepłoński is a specialist on police and espionage in the 2nd Republic.
In the People’s Republic Poland he was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Civic
Militia, and a lecturer at the Internal Affairs Academy.
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Andrzej Pepłoński
War for Hidden Causes.
In the Second Polish Republic’s
Secret Service, 1918–1944
Wojna o tajemnice. W tajnej służbie Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej 1918–1944
Keynote
Real life stories of spies and secret agents, set against the tumultuous period
of the Second World War and the years leading up to it.
Sales points
•A little-known background to the Second World War.
•Catch a glimpse of the real-life precursors to James Bond.
Description
Pages: 432
Category: History
Perhaps few Western readers are aware today that in 1918, immediately
following World War I, Poland was frantically organising itself after over
a century without its independence. Fewer still will have a firm idea
of everything this entailed. The present book focuses on one of the most
exciting, and little explored aspects of this reorganisation: the construction
of a secret service. Pepłoński can not be faulted for his ambitions in this
book – he covers the whole period of Poland’s reborn “Second Republic”
(1918–1944). The effect is a volume that will satisfy history buffs with its
in-depth look into espionage and counterespionage, while remaining
eminently accessible to readers approaching the subject for the first time.
Target market
A book with great cross-over potential – it will appeal to those who read
history books, espionage novels, thrillers, books on the World Wars, or those
with an interest in the real-life workings of a secret service.
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Sławomir Petelicki
Sławomir Petelicki was born in 1946. He was general of a brigade
of the Polish army in a state of rest, and the first head of the GROM Military
Unit. In the year 2000 he was chosen as gentleman of the year by
‘Gentleman’ magazine. He is presently chairman of the Foundation for the
Former Soldiers of the GROM Special Unit.
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Sławomir Petelicki, Michał Komar
GROM: Power and Honour
GROM. Siła i honor
Keynote
A behind-the-scenes look at Poland’s most well-trained secret forces unit.
Sales points
•The first such interview with a major player in the post-Communist Polish military.
Description
Old high-school friends meet after several decades for a series of interviews
that will put you at the edge of your seat – and keep you there. General
Petelicki spent twenty years in high ranking positions in the Communist
Polish government, in including diplomatic service in New York in the 1970s,
and in the 1990s he came to lead Poland’s most exclusive unit of crack
special forces assigned to fight terrorism – the legendary GROM [THUNDER]
unit. This is his first interview of such depth, revealing backroom politics
that will make readers smile and shudder in turn, the beginnings of his unit
and its consecutive hardships; and there are surely a number of passages
that read like the most gripping modern thriller. Interviewer Michał Komar
is just the man for the job: he is the author of plays, a journalist and a film
critic, and his long-term friendship with Petelicki gives him a special kind
of insight – and the interviews an intimacy that is rare.
Pages: 304
Category: History
Target market
Those who are interested in in-depth interviews, military strategy
and the behind-the-scenes world of politics and the army.
75
Andrzej Leon Sowa
Andrzej Leon Sowa (b. 1946) — a historian, many-year worker
at the Institute of History at the Jagiellonian University and the Jagiellonian
Library. His main areas of research are the First Republic (the 18th century)
and the history of the 20th century.
76
Andrzej Leon Sowa
A Political History of Poland 1944–1991
Historia polityczna Polski 1944–1991
Keynote
Andrzej Leon Sowa reveals the mechanics of the post-war system in Poland
in a fascinating and ruthless manner
Sales points
•Andrzej Sowa is a seasoned scholar of Polish 20th-century history
•An author of books that enjoy a great deal of recognition, and are now considered
classics
Description
The Political History of Poland 1944–1991, written by brilliant historian
Andrzej Leon Sowa, is the first such in-depth work on the post-war
political history of Poland. Essential facts form a full picture of a difficult
period in the country’s history, among them ones known to only a handful
of specialists.
“The following work is not a classic academic textbook,” the author writes
in his introduction. “I see it as a personal synthesis, and a reasonably
exhaustive compendium of knowledge on various political institutions.”
Following this principle, Andrzej Leon Sowa tries to maintain some
objectivity in describing situations, while interweaving his own evaluations
and opinions into this tale of recent Polish history, often provoking
discussion, and always – reflection.
Pages: 772
Category: History
“On every page of Sowa’s book we find evidence of his substantial didactic
training, his experience as a scholar and as an academic teacher. The construction
is clear, the narrative flowing, and the quality and quantity of the information
inspire respect for the author’s efforts.”
Andrzej Chwalba
Target market
Readers of history books, those interested in the history of post-war Poland,
historians, and students.
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Elżbieta Baniewicz
Elżbieta Baniewicz — a journalist, theater critic, and a graduate of Warsaw
University and the PWST Theater School in Warsaw. She has published
several hundred texts on theater, in Teatr, Kultura, Theatre en Pologne,
Performing Art Journal, and Theatre Journal, among others. She runs the
theater column in Twórczość. She has written monographs on Kazimierz
Kutz, Janusz Gajos, and Anna Dymna.
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Elżbieta Baniewicz
Erwin Axer. The Theater of Words
and Thoughts
Erwin Axer. Teatr słowa i myśli
Keynote
Erwin Axer, a master of literary style – a tale of the life and work of a great
pupil of Leon Schiller
Sales points
•The first such exhaustive monograph on this outstanding director on the market
Description
Pages: 524
Category: Biography –
Autobiography – Memoirs
Outstanding director, founder, and creator of the golden era of one of
Warsaw’s most important stages, the Współczesny Theater – Erwin Axer.
Elżbieta Baniewicz’s book is the first monograph to deal with Erwin Axer so
extensively and insightfully – it also tells the story of Polish theater of the
20th century. It documents what is most important, and at the same time
so fleeting in theater – unique performances, sets, costumes, and the roles
created by the greatest Polish actors of the century past.
Richly illustrated, furnished with many quotes from Axer himself, whether
from interviews, theater programs, or sources that have never been
published – the director’s archive, autobiography, and letters.
“The most important thing is that a book about one of the most important figures
in Polish 20th century theater has finally been released. And that this is not
a work petrifying its subject into a brass monument, but showing him in many
aspects of his life.”
Tomasz Mościcki, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
“How to turn a minimalist program into a great work of art – this is the subject
of the extensive monograph on Axer, written by the great theater critic Elżbieta
Baniewicz. She describes not only the life and work of the director, but also his
work system, which she was able to observe on many occasions. The result is
a half-academic, half-serious book that remains fascinating – because its subject
is such a fascinating figure.”
Leszek Bugajski, Newsweek
Target market
Theater historians and lovers, directors, actors, theater academy students,
readers interested in culture and art.
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Robert Brylewski, Rafał Księżyk
Robert Brylewski (b. 1961) – a legendary Polish rock musician; a vocalist,
guitarist, composer, lyricist, leader and co-founder of the legendary groups
Kryzys, Brygada Kryzys, Izrael, and Armia. He is also a music producer,
owner of a record studio, and creator of computer animation for music
videos.
Rafał Księżyk (b. 1970) – a journalist and music critic, author
of and interviewer for a Tomasz Stańko autobiography that was adored
by readers and critics. He had a hand in creating the image of the new music
and pop culture press scene that was born in the 1990s. He works
as the vice‑editor‑in‑chief of Playboy, and as a music critic works
with Machina magazine and with TVP Kultura.
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Robert Brylewski, Rafał Księżyk
Crisis in Babylon
Kryzys w Babilonie
Keynote
Rock and roll lifestyle, nonconformity, with a changing Poland, communism
and the free market system in the background…
Sales points
•A legendary rock musician and a legendary music critic in a fascinating conversation
•A long-awaited biography of a man who created a rebellious youth culture in defiance
of his times
Description
Pages: 584
Rights sold: The Czech Republic
A master of the guitar, one of Poland’s most charismatic rock musicians,
in conversation with Rafał Księżyk about his tumultuous life, anti-rock-star
career, family and passions.
Robert Brylewski’s tale is a stormy one. The punk explosion at the height
of the communist crackdowns. Marihuana and reggae during Martial Law.
The beginnings of capitalism to the beat of techno and amphetamines.
Alternative societies clashing with market realities.
And the man himself? Messy and chronically late. A reggae lover. The creator
of a vast number of paintings, graffiti works, and collages, including
those depicting General Jaruzelski. Fascinated by the Theory of Relativity,
nanotechnology and history. After his birth it was foretold that he would
become a priest. He didn’t. He got music for breakfast every day. Raised
in a strange enclave. The great-grandson of a circus manager, grandson
of a painter and factory worker, son of a miner and a dancer. A powerful force
in the local underground, co-creator of groups like Kryzys [Crisis], Izrael [Israel],
Brygada Kryzys [Crisis Brigade], and Armia [Army].
The book contains a wealth of photographs from the family archive of Robert
Brylewski, and reproductions of the musician’s artwork.
“The life we led was utterly unlike the others. We even looked different. We didn’t
give a sh… about careers, studios, the army, or work. This gave us a great sense
of self‑confidence and immediacy.”
Robert Brylewski
“That guy awoke us from musical and ideological non-existence. A pioneer,
a precursor, a legend. It’s thanks to him I’m a punk, though neither one of us looks
it these days. Read this book and find out that Polish freedom wasn’t always born
in the shipyards.”
Kuba Wojewódzki
“The life of Robert Brylewski, with 49 years of Poland in the background. Fascinating,
and at times surprising.”
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Lech Janerka
“If you want to find out how the steel of Polish punk was forged during Martial Law,
you won’t find a better book. Highly recommended.”
Jakub Ż� ulczyk, Wprost
“Brylewski’s autobiography is a real page-turner – in spite of its nearly 600 pages,
you gulp it down very quickly. Partly because Brylewski is talking about fascinating
things, and partly because the way he tells a story is fascinating.”
Przemysław Gulda, Gazeta Wyborcza
“Crisis in Babylon is more than an autobiography of Robert Brylewski.
It is the story of the Polish underground.”
Rzeczospolita
“Well-aimed questions, open-ended answers, and a piece of fascinating history.”
Target market
Wojciech Lada, Uważam Rze
Readers of memoirs, autobiographies, lovers of non-fiction and rock music.
Fans of Brylewski, and his various groups: Armia, Izrael, Brygada Kryzys.
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Michał Głowiński
ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED EXPERTS ON THE HISTORY
OF POLISH LITERATURE
THE AUTHOR OF POLISH STUDIES BOOKS THAT ARE NOW
CONSIDERED CLASSICS
Michał Głowiński (b. 1934) — literary theorist and authority on the
contemporary history of Polish literature, professor at the Institute of
Polish Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences, an academic
with a great deal of innovation and puissance, with inspiring influence,
the author of basic texts on Polish literature, as well as of original and
important memoirs (including Black Seasons, and A Footbridge over Time.
Pictures from a Town, 2005). In 1999 his book entitled Black Seasons was
nominated for the Nike Polish Literary Award.
Nominated for the prestigious Nike Polish Literary Award for Black Seasons
Winner of the Jan Parandowski literary award, given out by the PEN Club for lifetime
achievement
Honorary doctorates from the Adam Mickiewicz University and Opole University
Winner of the Herder Award, given out by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg
BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR AVAILABLE FROM
WYDAWNICTWO LITERACKIE PUBLISHERS
Other
Wings and Heel
Telimena’s Interior Monologue
A Footbridge over Time. Pictures from a Town
Broken Tales. Small Sketches 1998–2007
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Michał Głowiński
Autobiography
Kręgi obcości. Opowieść autobiograficzna
Keynote
An insightful, personal and universal study by one of Poland’s most admired
literary critics.
Sales points
•An author of Polish literary criticism that is already regarded as classic
•One of the most highly-ranked critics of Polish literature
•Winner of the prestigious PEN Club Award for lifetime achievement
Description
Pages: 536
In his autobiography, Michał Głowiński appears as a careful observer and
sober commentator, and a writer able to forge increasing existential
suspense. He tells not only of his own personal experiences, but places them
in a broader context — his generation’s experiences, and those of the world
in which he grew up in and presently inhabits.
The times of the occupation, his family home after the war, his studies
in the Stalinist era, March ’68, work at the Institute for Literary Research,
which was then an oasis of freedom, his first travels abroad, the carnival
of Solidarity… With his customary passion, the author describes these
political, social and cultural realities, while adding in some private
confessions.
Target market
Readers of autobiographies, memoirs, non-fiction, those interested in history
and literature
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Katarzyna Grochola, Dorota
Szelągowska
Tapestry
Maskotka
Keynote
An intimate, revealing, and heartwarming look into the lives and
relationship of Poland’s favorite mother and daughter.
Sales points
•Grochola’s every book tops the national bestseller charts in Poland
•Full of photographs, reflections on life and the family, and bite-sized pearls of wisdom.
Description
Pages: 376
It’s an idea so natural and appealing that one wonders how it hadn’t been
conceived before. Take two of Poland’s most beloved and best-selling authors
– who also happen to be mother and daughter – and have them compose an
intimate, playful and often touching double portrait. The result is something
like a (s)he says/she says compilation of takes on events both major and
minor, from dealing with Facebook and household pets to betrayal and
surviving toxic relationships, seen through the eyes of two women from
different generations, with different ranges of experience. Their versions
quarrel, contradict each other, come together in surprising places, and
ultimately go to prove that no matter how much they may disagree on the
details, the love between a daughter and a mother is a marvelous thing.
Tapestry is a kind of homage to a bond that is too rarely celebrated in
literature – mother and daughter – written by two sparkling personalities.
My life was calm and settled. A son, a Financé, a house, a loan, a job, some dogs.
A dinner out on the town from time to time, friends and acquaintances. A nice
set-up. And then the telephone rang. ‘Hello, dear, we’re going to be on Dancing
with the Stars,’ my mother said, which sounded more or less the same as being
told that we would be flying to the Moon the week following, or that we would
be starting up a silkworm farm. I honestly admit that I originally ignored this
information, as I did with other news my mother gave me. That was my mistake.
– From the book.
Target market
Enthusiasts of “chick lit” with a heart, those looking for a good read about
mother/daughter relationships, or wanting a glimpse “behind the scenes” at
Grochola’s life.
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Julia Hartwig
Julia Hartwig (born in 1921 in Lublin) is a poet, essayist and translator.
She has written a couple of collections of poems, which allowed her
to become one of major authors of contemporary poety. She is not
easily classified, but rather treated as a stand-alone, exceptional figure,
who does not succumb to either passing fashion or snobbery.
AWARDS:
ZaiKS Award (1976),
Fondation d’Hautvilliers “Prix de Traduction” Award (France, 1978),
Polish PEN Club Award (1979, 1997),
Jurzykowski Literary Award (USA, 1981),
Thornton Wilder Prize (USA, 1986),
Georg Trakl Award (Austria, 1991),
Ministry of Culture Award for lifetime achievement (2001),
Władysław and Nella Turzański Foundation Award (2004),
Great Cultural Foundation Award,
Polish PEN Club Jan Parandowski Award (2009).
Four-time nominee for the Nike Literary Award.
OTHER BOOKS FOR WL:
Poezje wybrane / Selected Poems
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Julia Hartwig
Diaries
Dziennik
Keynote
An extraordinary document by a famous poetess, showing how colorful and
inspiring the post-war period could be
Sales points
•The winner of many prestigious awards, four-times nominated for the NIKE Award.
•One of Poland’s most outstanding poets, an acknowledged translator of literature
• Entering her ninetieth year, Hartwig is a major figure in the history of Polish literature
• Features recollections of many important names in 20th century literature
Pages: 464
Description
This journal speaks more in-depth of Hartwig’s work and important
events in social and political life than her previous works have, but it
perhaps focuses most strongly on divulging the poet’s own trials, and on
descriptions of her friends, including those who have passed away. She also
devotes a great deal of space to books – as, alongside her own writing, these
occupy the most important place in her life.
The following day Ania and I make an excursion to Campo de’ Fiori, where
we delighted in seeing the booths filled with vegetables and flowers. Beautiful
weather, a bit chilly, but the sun is warm. We seat ourselves in a restaurant on
the sunny side of the street, already filling up with tourists in search of some sun
and good coffee, just like us. We lunch in the same restaurant, I order canelloni
with ricotta and spinach. The previous day we had eaten lunch near the Fontanna
di Trevi with Adam, who was leaving the next day. Adam threw a coin into the
fountain and hoped that he would have the chance to return to Rome. Ania
immortalized it in a photograph.
22 February 2010
Target market
Readers of memoirs, of fine and ambitious contemporary literature,
and of non‑fiction.
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Iza Komendołowicz
Iza Komendołowicz is a journalist, vice-editor-in-chief of Pani magazine,
and co-author of an extensive interview with Witold Pyrkosz.
OTHER BOOKS FOR WL:
Witold Pyrkosz. Twice Born. Memoirs
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Iza Komendołowicz
Elka
Elka
Keynote
A story that Dostoyevsky might have written – a portrait of the Polish
Marylin Monroe, full of ups and downs, successes and failures, loves
and solitude.
Sales points
•The compelling story of Elżbieta Czyżewska – outstanding actress, loved and loathed
at the same time.
Description
Date of publication:2012
Pages: 408
A bold and factual book, providing a behind-the-scenes look
at the legend‑shrouded private and professional life of one of the most
popular – and most controversial – Polish film actresses of the 1960s.
Successes and failures, loves and solitude, grappling with alcoholism
and a cancerous tumor, a vivid picture of the cinema artists’ environment,
full of romances, intrigues, and ruthless rivalries. The story of a unique,
proud, and intelligent woman, who was also cruel, lost, and storing some
painful memories from her childhood. She was phenomenal, devilishly
seductive, constantly on the prowl, and greedy for love and acceptance.
Among those speaking about the starlet are actors, directors, writers,
artists, friends, and acquaintances, from both Poland and the USA:
Agnieszka Holland, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Wajda, Joanna Pacuła,
Omar Sangare, Kazimierz Kutz, Krystyna Zachwatowicz, Olga Lipińska,
Daniel Passent, Barbara Sass, and Nancy Weber.
The book is richly illustrated with photographs and documents.
Target market
Readers of memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, adorers of E. Czyżewska’s
talents, those interested in the history of cinema.
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Ewa Kuryluk
ANOTHER OUTSTANDING BOOK BY THIS FAMOUS KRAKOW
ARTIST
NOMINATED FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS NIKE LITERARY AWARD
Ewa Kuryluk (b. 1946) — a famous painter, writer, poet, essayist and art
historian. Born in Krakow, presently lives in Paris, New York and Warsaw.
A pioneer in avant-garde textile installations. She has written twenty books,
including numerous essays on art. She was nominated for the prestigious
Nike Literary Award in 2005 for her most personal novel, Goldi, which
features her childhood recollections.
Nominated for the prestigious Nike Literary Award for Goldi.
LITERACKIE
Novels
Frascati
Goldi (2011, re-edition)
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Ewa Kuryluk
Goldi
Goldi
Keynote
The first instalment of an autobiography that encapsulates Poland’s troubled
history in a single woman.
Sales points
•The book was a finalist for the prestigious Nike Award.
•Part one of a saga whose third volume is currently being written.
Description
Pages: 208
Artist and art historian, a writer of Jewish extraction residing in Paris,
Ewa Kuryluk is a figure of many faces. Goldi is chiefly the story of her
father – a Polish Minister of Culture, Polish Ambassador in Vienna, and one
of the Righteous among Nations – and of his relationship with his daughter.
The family is presented here as a kind of island refuge against the turmoil
of the outside world. Compelling, authentic and sincere, this book is above
a view of personal and private history seen through the eyes of a young girl.
The focus therefore shifts from events of world significance to accounts
of strolls through Vienna, a dress purchased for a chess convention,
and meetings with a writer whose works were never to be read, having been
devoured by a precocious little guinea pig named Goldi. The book is richly
furnished with photographs from the time period.
[Ewa Kuryluk’s] family concentrates all the most important things, as if through
a lens. Great love, terrible disease, the beauty of coincidence, flourish and sorrow,
misery and ecstasy, whispers and screams, absurdity and abundance.
Agnieszka Drotkiewicz, “Lampa”
This may be a personal memoir, but its significance stretches far beyond the
frame of a family story. Goldi is perhaps the most intimate of Ewa Kuryluk’s
books to date.
Marek Radziwon, “Gazeta Wyborcza”
Target market
Those interested in memoirs and historical sagas, post-war Polish history
and Jewish issues, those who would like a first-hand view of a complex
historical time period.
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Franceska Michalska
Franceska Michalska was born in 1923 in Kamienic Podolski. Her childhood
years were spent in the era when the new Soviet rule was taking shape,
when a new social order was being introduced, which turned out to be no
more than a ruthless and cruel form of terror. By some miracle she survived
the great famine in Ukraine, one of the major examples of this terror.
In 1936, when she was twelve years old, she and her family joined
thousands of Poles in being shipped from pre-partition Polish lands
to Kazakhstan; here too, with the severe climate, famine and disease,
survival verged on miraculous.
In 1941 she began her studies in Alma Ata. Moving gradually further west,
through various medical academies, first in Kharkov, then in Chernovitz, she
finally ended up in Poland, though not without difficulty in acquiring
repatriate status. She graduated in medicine from Wrocław University.
Since 1955 she has lived in Siemiatyczy, in the Podlasie region (where she
and her husband had intended to stay only a few years).
She devoted her entire professional life to working in the hospital there,
as an administrator of the children’s ward. To this day she is known
throughout the area as a pediatrician, and is visited by patients from all
over the region and beyond.
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Franceska Michalska
All the Joy of Living.
In Volhynia, in Kazakhstan, in Poland
Cała radość życia. Na Wołyniu, w Kazachstanie, w Polsce
Keynote
A child’s incredible odyssey through one of the 20th century’s darkest times.
Sales points
•A side of World War Two and a chapter in history virtually unknown in the West
•A book that underlines joy and optimism in life in spite of the harshest adversity
Description
Pages: 176
There are some books that charm you by being so familiar, while others
expand your sense of the world that you live in, and the history that
composes it. All the Joy of Living. In Volhynia, in Kazakhstan, in Poland, the
gripping and extraordinary autobiography of Franceska Michalska,
chronicling her years spent as a child during the Second World War
and the time of the great famine in Ukraine, is this second kind of book
precisely. With her wealth of startling experiences, and her talent
for descriptions so vivid and sensory they approach the surreal, Michalska
pulls the reader into times and landscapes most would find utterly foreign.
“They began cleaning the well. The water sprang forth dirty and red,
but people started drinking it anyway.” “What did we eat? Grandpa went to
the forest and tore down linden leaves […]. He dried them on boards
or sheets, then crushed them into flour and made something like pancakes
out of them.” With a remarkable eye for detail, Michalska’s narrative
combines childlike wonder with one of the most horrific chapters in
European history, and along the way performs the miraculous – she makes
this exotic and remote piece of time something the reader experiences
as immediate and richly compelling.
Bypassing the major historical events and concentrating on personal experiences,
this book makes the reader an authentic witness to history, like it or not.
The reader comes to history from the most important sort of perspective, the point
of view of the individual. He/she has the chance to visualize some of the most
extreme conditions people have ever had to survive.
Wojciech Jaskuła
You devour these incredible memoirs all in one gulp. Many of the anecdotes here
are presented with humor. There are many copies of documents, a few
photographs. And only the memories of people who remained in the fearsome
steppe, with only themselves to rely on, keeps us from feeling a truly carefree joy
of living.
Tadeusz Nyczek, “Przekrój”
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Tadeusz Pankiewicz
Tadeusz Pankiewicz (1908–1993) — a pharmacist, graduate
of the Jagiellonian University, and owner of the Pod Orłem [Under the
Eagle] Pharmacy in Krakow, which functioned in the Krakow Ghetto,
with the permission of the German authorities, from 1941–1943. For helping
and rescuing Jews, he was given a Righteous among the Nations Medal.
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Tadeusz Pankiewicz
The Pharmacy in the Krakow Ghetto
Apteka w getcie krakowskim
Keynote
Tadeusz Pankiewicz’s memoir is one of the most important testimonies
to the saving of the Krakow Jews.
Sales points
•One of the most important testimonies on the history of the Krakow Jews
•Moving recollections of the ghetto inhabitant, later awarded the Righteous among the
Nations Medal.
Description
Pages: 280
“From the moment the ‘Jewish district’ was created, I unexpectedly became
its inhabitant, as the owner of the Pod Orłem Pharmacy at Zgody Square 18.”
Tadeusz Pankiewicz
An extraordinarily precise and shattering tale of a tragedy that occurred
not only in Krakow, but in many other cities in Poland. The story of events
that should never be forgotten.
Tadeusz Pankiewicz lived and worked for two-and-a-half years in the ghetto,
and lived through all the stages of its existence: from the closing of the
gates and the first harassments, through the deportations, conducted
with increasing cruelty, until the total liquidation.
During this time, the Pod Orłem Pharmacy served as an asylum and point
of contact between two worlds: the Jewish population shut off behind
the walls and the “free” people living outside of them. Its staff became a link
between these two worlds.
This was a place where you could read the latest news from the front,
find underground press, or get shelter during nighttime arrests. Letters
and packages were left here for people living on the Aryan side, and news
and deliveries were also made the other way.
The few ghetto inhabitants who managed to survive the cruel time
of the war still retain grateful memories of the Pod Orłem Pharmacy
and its proprietor.
Target market
Readers of memoirs, non-fiction, those interested in history,
and the Holocaust in particular.
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Jadwiga Staniszkis, Artur Cieślar
Jadwiga Staniszkis — a famous and celebrated sociologist, a professor
at Warsaw University and the National-Louis University in Nowy Sącz,
and a journalist.
Artur Cieślar — a writer, reporter, translator, poet, and traveler wrapped
into one.
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Jadwiga Staniszkis, Artur Cieślar
East and West. An Encounter
Wschód i Zachód. Spotkania
Keynote
Getting inside the Middle Kingdom: a remarkable encounter between two
people and two worlds: a professor and a writer/traveler, East and West
Sales points
•A highly regarded professor and a Buddhist writer hold a fascinating conversation
about the similarities and differences between the worlds of the West and the East
Description
Pages: 280
A famous professor speaks with a writer, poet, and traveler.
An exchange between two people fascinated with the East for different
reasons. Jadwiga Staniszkis is interested in comparing the thought of
the Orient with that of the West – she is fascinated by the philosophy,
the literature, the concept of the person, society, and power. She considers
the differences and tries to understand them. In the first part of the book,
the authors discuss her path to encountering the East.
In the second part, Artur Cieślar speaks of his adventures in the East.
He does not focus on understanding it intellectually. He is more interested
in what will give him spiritual development, and allow him to function
better in the contemporary world.
Target market
A wide range of readers: those interested in the culture of the East,
philosophy, sociology, history, politics, and spirituality.
97
Tomasz Stańko, Rafał Księżyk
Tomasz Stańko (b. 1942) — is a world renowned trumpet player, considered
to be one of the best jazz trumpet players in the world. His concerts have
always drawn a huge audience, with the concert halls all over the worl
being filled up.
Rafał Księżyk (b. 1970) — is a journalist and a music critic. He has
participated in creating the contemporary Polish music and pop culture
press since the 1990s. He has worked as an editor in such magazines as
“Brum”, “Plastik”, “Antena Krzynu”, and his articles on mucic appeared in
all major specialist newspapers as well as “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Newsweek”
and “Przekrój”. He is currently a subeditor in “Playboy”, and he writesmusic
reviews for “Machina” and cultural programme TVP Kultura.
98
Tomasz Stańko, Rafał Księżyk
Desperado
Desperado
Keynote
A feast of private interviews with legendary Polish jazz trumpeter Tomasz
Stańko.
Sales points
•The most in-depth series of interviews with Tomasz Stańko available to date.
•The story of a vivid life through turbulent times.
•Supplemented with plenty of photographs, a timeline, and Stańko’s discography.
Description
Pages: 544
Rights sold: UK
Rights optioned: Germany
“I chose the life of a desperado. On the edge. On the brink of death.” This
quote from one of the many generous interviews with Tomasz Stańko
included in this volume both explains the title and gives you some idea of
what to expect. The book traces the musician’s 50-year jazz odyssey from
his first steps in the 1960s to the present, beginning with his days in the
famous Krzysztof Komeda ensemble, making soundtracks to Roman Polanski
films and living as a student in Krakow, and concluding with the established
international celebrity we now know, recording for the cult ECM label and
touring the world with his trumpet. Stańko seems to have met everyone
making jazz on the scene in Poland over the years – which were much less
than favorable times for jazz musicians – but he also has a great deal to
say about musicians active in the West throughout the same period – Miles
Davis, Ornette Coleman, John Coletrane, and many others. Like many of
his Western counterparts, Stańko also struggled with drug addiction for
decades, and in “Desperado” he speaks frankly of his use of heroin, hashish,
copious alcohol and many other substances, and of his ultimate triumph
over his addictions. The rest of the book’s five hundred pages cover a wide
variety of topics, from Stańko’s loves and travels, his long path to success,
his family, and communist Poland, but above all the conversations deal
with music – reflections on his own work as a composer and musician,
and fresh takes on jazz music from Duke Ellington and Chet Baker to Cecil
Taylor and Sun Ra. In sum, this is compulsory reading for anyone interested
in the history of jazz, from a perspective seldom encountered in the West,
and a fascinating account of what it meant to be a brilliant jazz musician in
a communist country.
Stańko talks like he plays. His phrases come out a bit messy, but they’re honest
and compelling. These are fascinating confessions by one of Poland’s greatest
artists.
Donata Subbotko, Gazeta Wyborcza
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This is also a book of very private confessions. Stańko’s taut responses contain
more truth than other people’s long-winded statements.
Jacek Marczyński, Gazeta Rzeczpospolita
The image of Stańko that emerges from these interviews might surprise
you. Everyone knows that he’s a great trumpeter. What’s interesting are the
circumstances surrounding how he came onto the gray, communist Polish jazz
scene “like a tornado,” his life with groupies, and his balance on the edge of life,
as fragile as a line of cocaine.
Magazyn Literacki
Target market
Jazz lovers, those interested in intimate interviews with famous celebrities.
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Jerzy Stuhr
Jerzy Stuhr (b. 1947) – one of the most popular and most versatile Polish
actors, a film and theater director affiliated with Krakow’s Stary Theater
from 1972–1991, a lecturer at Krakow’s Theater School and rector
of the same learning institution, the winner of many prestigious awards,
member of the European Film Academy that awards the Felix.
Aleksandra Pawlicka – a journalist working in the national news team
of the Przekrój weekly, Polish Studies graduate from Warsaw University,
and Brussels correspondent for the Polish Section of BBC Radio from
1999–2002.
101
Jerzy Stuhr
The Stuhrs. A Family History
Stuhrowie. Historie rodzinne
Keynote
Great loves, remarkable characters, difficult decisions, successes and failures,
joys and sorrows – the value and power of a family slowly unfolds
Sales points
The tale of the family of one of Poland’s most famous actors
Won accolades from readers and critics both
Description
Pages: 280
The Stuhrs – A Family Portrait with a Historical Backdrop
In the latter half of the 19th century Jerzy Stuhr’s great-grandfather, Leopold,
came to Krakow, where he bought a building on Podgórze Square and set up
a restaurant. From then on Polish, Austrian, Czech, and Hungarian sub-plots
weave in with the fascinating story of Krakow’s Stuhr family.
In Jerzy Stuhr’s tale, family history interweaves with the history of Krakow,
Poland, and Europe. The household archive holds photographs, portraits,
a service medal, a cutlass, a glass, and a show cabinet – the true
and reconstructed family history is woven around these objects. There are also
the compelling notes from Auschwitz by one family member, Oskar Stuhr,
a lawyer who took part in the Second World War, who was arrested
and imprisoned in the Montelupa Prison, in Wiśnicz, and in Auschwitz.
Another attraction of the book is the wide selection of photographs from
the family archive and the family tree prepared by Marianna Stuhr.
“A great-grandfather who dearly believed that his dreams would only come
true in Krakow. A grandfather whose favorite entertainment was to pretend it
was his own funeral. An aunt who said that a woman was only worth as much
as the man’s pants she hung up to dry. Mrożek mixed with Gombrowicz, says
Jerzy Stuhr. It’s a good thing he decided to write this Family History. And not
just because he owes it to his children, as he says.”
Target market
Iza Bartosz, Viva!
Readers of popular biographies of famous people, diaries, historical novels,
non-fiction, and memoirs; those interested in film, theater, and acting
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Jerzy Stuhr
That’s What I Think…
Tak sobie myślę…
Keynote
The portrait of a master – a beautiful and heartwarming tale of one year in the
life of a man and a year of fighting for life.
Sales points
•One of the most anticipated books of the season
•A book that swiftly became a bestseller
Description
Pages: 272
When in fall 2011 information was released on Jerzy Stuhr’s serious illness,
all of Poland held their breath. This beloved actor began fighting for his life...
and began to write. In the notebooks his daughter gave him almost every day,
in the hospital and at home, in every free moment he wrote down his thoughts,
reflections, and observations. Thus emerged a remarkable diary, which is not
only the record of a struggle, but also a testimony of a love of life. However it
might show itself.
In That’s What I Think… Jerzy Stuhr comments on current events in Poland
and in Europe, sometimes bitterly, and sometimes very seriously follows sports
events. But he devotes the most space to culture. He writes about his career
and his mission as an actor, wondering what it means to be an actor in
the contemporary world. At times he even turns into a film critic and offers
deep analyses of films. And his illness? Of course it is there, but in
the background. Jerzy Stuhr is most fascinated by what is outside the hospital
window.
The closer we get to the book’s end, the longer the gaps between notes.
This marks the actor’s return to his professional life, and thus brings us
to the end of this remarkable conversation between Jerzy Stuhr and himself –
and with the reader at the same time.
“For the reader this book is an intimate meeting with a great artist, an experienced
actor, and above all, with a wise, witty, and warm human being.”
“One of the most highly anticipated books of the season.”
Target market
Anna Sobańda, Dziennik
Aleksandra Pawlicka, Newsweek
Readers of memoirs and conversations, lovers of film and theater, readers
of biographies and opinion weeklies.
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Dorota Sumińska
Dorota Sumińska – a practicing veterinarian for many years,
and a pet psychologist by passion, who has hosted popular radio
and television programs about animals for several years.
She has written books about animals and guides for pet owners, including
the best‑selling Autobiography on Four Paws, An Animal in the Bed
and the novel The World according to a Dog; she is also the co‑author
of a guide entitled How to Raise a Child, a Dog, a Cat, and a Boyfriend.
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Dorota Sumińska
Animal in the Bedroom
Zwierz w łóżku
Keynote
Science written in a language and with a warmth that everyone can enjoy
Sales points
•Fun and accessible, yet thought-provoking
•A unique combination of popular psychology and zoology
Description
Pages: 282
Some ten years ago, a film called Microcosmos paired opera music with a pair
of romantically entwined snails and proved that, incredibly enough, these
lowly creatures could be seen as passionate. In Animal in the Bedroom,
veterinarian and animal psychologist Dorota Suminska goes a step further
– she rifles through a whole catalogue of human emotions and behaviors
and demonstrates how they are reflected or even partially explained by close
observations of the animal world. Whether comparing a mother’s first kisses
to her child with dogs’ regurgitation of food into the mouths of their young,
or the mother African buffalo’s overpowering love for her son with the
drunken exploits of a friend and his all-forgiving mother, Suminska’s tales
maintain a warmth and humor that will keep readers engaged and amused
through its many and varied chapters. Ultimately, the real value
of Suminska’s book goes much deeper, however – it teaches us to see
ourselves and our foibles in a whole new light, and it imparts a sense
of wonder and a whole new affection for the natural world surrounding us.
A page-turner – as this author’s books always are. And a real eye-opener!
“Wrozka” Christmas guide
In this book we come across parrots, horses, octopi, leopards… […] The masses
of interesting details and Suminska’s light touch are the aces up the sleeve
of this very enjoyable book.
“Dziennik Polski”
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Dorota Sumińska
Still on Four Paws
Dalej na czterech łapach
Keynote
A tale chock full of anecdotes, hairpin turns and astonishing events,
in which animals and people play equally important roles Sales points
• A continuation of the unforgettable Autobiography on Four Paws
•Each new book by this author wins the hearts of faithful readers, and new ones as well
Description
Pages: 292
A wise, moving, and bracing tale of the fortunes of beloved animals, families,
and friends known by this veterinary doctor.
Dorota Sumińska writes of the home she now has, and her loved ones –
of what makes the household go round, who has made the latest appearances,
and what defines it. Thus she speaks of the joyful pastime of acquiring new
family members – among others, there appear a new husband, grandchildren,
another Pekingese etc. We also gradually learn of departures: of the author’s
mother, the death of her father, the husband of a close friend, as well as of pets,
including Slipper, who had theretofore created a hierarchy of relationships
between the pets. The book weaves final farewells with the power of love,
hope, and faith.
There are also journeys: mainly to the author’s beloved Asia. During her
faraway excursions, the author has a look at some exotic nature, and makes
contact with her favorite animals. This personal story includes many anecdotes,
which create a colorful and charming world that holds the reader’s fascination
till the final page.
This book is abundantly illustrated with photographs from the author’s archive.
Target market
Animal lovers of every age, readers of memoirs, autobiographies, travel
enthusiasts
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Danuta Wałęsa
Ed. Piotr Adamowicz
Danuta Wałęsa (b. 1949) — from 1990 to 1995 the First Lady of Poland,
social activist.
On 8 september 1969 she became the wife of Lech Wałęsa, future leader
of Solidarity, president of Poland from 1990 to 1995. On behalf of her
husband she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 1983.
She is the honorary president of the Gdańsk Fund for the Development
of Culture (Fundacja na Rzecz Rozwoju Kultury). Member of the Honorary
Council of the Darboven Idee Grant contest for enterprising women
and member of the Honorary Council of the International Centre for Missing
and Exploited Children.
Piotr Adamowicz — a journalist, he was an active member of the Soldarity
movement in the 1980s. He worked for Agence France Prese in 1988–1992
and was a correspondent for Reuters in 1991–1994. Since 1993 he writes
for Rzeczpospolita daily. He is a social advisor for the Foundation for
Solidarity Centre and European Solidarity Centre.He represents the following
politicians in the Institute for National Remembrance: Bogdan Borusewicz,
Aleksander Hall, Bożena i Maciej Grzywaczewscy, Bogdan Lis, Donald Tusk,
Lech Wałęsa. He is a co-author of an entry in Opposition in the Polish Peaople’s
Republic. A Dictionary of Biographies 1956–1989.
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Danuta Wałęsa
Dreams and Secrets
Marzenia i tajemnice
Ed. Piotr Adamowicz
THE BESTSELLING POLISH BOOK OF 2011 – 370 000 COPIES SOLD
Pages: 552
Rights sold: The Czech Republic,
Portugal
A biographical tale by Danuta Wałęsowa, her memoirs recounting the story of
her life and the lives of the Wałęsa family. A self-portrait of a woman – mother
and wife – accompanying Lech Wałęsa first when he was a trade unionist,
then an oppositionist, and finally the president, always supporting him
unconditionally.
She was a silent participant and a witness of the most important,
groundbreaking political events in the history of the second half of the 20th
century. She looked at them through the filter of her family, for which she was
responsible, especially when her husband could not stand by her. She had to
bear the distress of her husband the oppositionist being persecuted, she had to
endure the controversies around the trade unionist and politician, and last but
not least learn her new role of the First Lady.
Honest and authentic in its directness, it is a tale of life, growing up in
the countryside, studying and starting the first job. It is a story of major
groundbreaking moments and important people: the husband, the children,
friends, confidants, befriended men of the cloth and other people tied to the
Wałęsa family by friendship and union or political functions.
Dreams and secrets is a truly honest, very intimate and bold private tale about
living in the shadow of one’s husband and of great politics. It is a sometimes
painful and tense confession about the price Danuta Wałęsa and her family had
to pay for being in the centre of political events, of living with Lech Wałęsa.
The story is illustrated with private photographs from the Wałęsas’ archives.
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Ludwika Włodek
Ludwika Włodek is a great-granddaughter of Jarosław and Anna
Iwaszkiewicz. She is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw,
a journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza daily, she writes for Wysokie Obcasy
women’s magazine and Duży Format (reportages about Eastern affairs,
Iran, Jewish culture and women’s issues).
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Ludwika Włodek
A Tale of the Iwaszkiewicz Family
Pra. Opowieść o rodzinie Iwaszkiewiczów
Keynote
Memoirs of a turbulent period in Polish history, and one of its most
memorable literary figures, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz – written by his
great‑granddaughter.
Sales points
•Włodek is perhaps of the last generation that can write of Iwaszkiewicz’s life
and the era emotionally, and not historically
•A book which opens a whole, colorful world, and one to which the Western reader
seldom has access
Pages: 384
Description
For Ludwika Włodek, writing is a grand adventure, and even readers utterly
unfamiliar with Poland directly before and after the Second World War,
or those with little exposure to the great Polish writer Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
(whose stories have provided the basis for many of Andrzej Wajda’s films),
cannot fail to fall into Włodek’s infectious way of creating an atmosphere,
of spinning a tale. She culls from a wide range of sources – letters, diaries,
notes, anecdotes – but the most precious source here is Włodek’s own
memory, from which she draws liberally. The result is thus somewhere
between a report from a bygone era and a personal record of a life
with a remarkable family.
Target market
Readers of memoirs and personal histories.
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Andrzej Wiśniewski
Andrzej Wiśniewski – a psychologist and psychotherapist. For twenty-five
years, he has been engaged as a family and marriage therapist, and also
conducts individual therapy. He lectures at the College of Social Psychology
and is psychology supervisor at the Polish Psychological Association and
Polish Psychiatric Association. He works in the Psychoeducation Laboratory
team. Co-author of the book Loving Relationships and Separations.
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Katarzyna Grochola, Andrzej Wiśniewski
Marital and Extra-Marital Fun and
Games
Gry i zabawy małżeńskie i pozamałżeńskie
Keynote
A self-help guide which throws new light on every relationship and proves that
not much is needed for the word “forever” to become reality.
Sales points
•The most popular drama novel writer in Poland, whose books sell by the millions.
•Each of her books is a major best-seller.
Description
Pages: 336
Category: Self-Help
Serious questions and honest answers, humour and surprising comparisons,
but above all an unswerving search for the truth – one of the most popular
Polish female authors talks with famous therapist Andrzej Wiśniewski about
games and fun in relationships, those which are innocent and those which are
risky.
“The reader merely needs to have the courage of her convictions when taking
a decision, and no prescriptions or ready solutions should be needed, all the
more so, as there are none. The authors have therefore supplied the pleasure
that flows from animated conversation, while having a clean conscience in
the knowledge that they are fulfilling the expectations of those who turn to
Marital and Extra-Marital Fun and Games”.
Andrzej Wiśniewski
Target market
Champions of Katarzyna Grochola’s output, readers of self-help guides, those
interested in psychology, sociology and psychotherapy.
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Katarzyna Grochola, Andrzej Wiśniewski
Loving Relationships and Break Ups
Związki i rozwiązki miłosne
Keynote
A self-help guide which is provoking a storm and lending hope to the idea of a
happy, error-free tomorrow.
Sales points
•The most popular drama novel writer in Poland, whose books sell by the millions.
•Each of her books is a major best-seller.
Description
Pages: 306
Category: Self-Help
Far from obvious questions and surprising answers, sparkling wit and moments
of reverie, true stories and original reflections – one of the most popular
female authors talks with Andrzej Wiśniewski, a family therapist, about loving
relationships, those that are good and those that are bad.
“The reader merely needs to have the courage of her convictions when taking
a decision, and no prescriptions or ready solutions should be needed, all the more so,
as there are none. The authors have therefore supplied the pleasure that flows from
animated conversation, while having a clean conscience in the knowledge that they
are fulfilling the expectations of those who turn to this book”.
Andrzej Wiśniewski
“This book is a unique opportunity to eavesdrop on a conversation about marriage
and loneliness, love and hate, fidelity and unfaithfulness – about what binds people
and what divides them. There’s one single thing in the world for which it’s worth
doing anything. That’s love of course”.
Katarzyna Grochola
Target market
Champions of Katarzyna Grochola’s output, readers of self-help guides, those
interested in psychology, sociology and psychotherapy.
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Edward Kajdański
Edward Kajdański (b. 1925) – a writer, journalist, and diplomat. Born
in Manchukuo, where he attended a Polish gymnasium (middle school)
and began pharmacy studies at the North Manchurian University. In 1951
he left for Poland during the repatriation. He worked at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, as a trade advisor in Beijing, and also served as consulate
in the Canton Province.
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Edward Kajdański
Chinese Medicine for Beginners
Medycyna chińska dla każdego
Keynote
The world of Chinese medicine from the perspective of a many-year resident
of China – a remarkable combination of knowledge, passion and talent
Sales points
•A multi-angled guide through Chinese medicine for the beginner
•A guidebook written by a specialist, born and raised in China
Description
Pages: 320
Category: Self-Help
A popular guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine for everyone who would
like to find out how to restore harmony to the body and mind, how to
improve vital energy, and how to live a long and healthy life.
The “specialist from China” guides the reader through the best-kept
secrets of the world of Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, and customs,
as a person who once lived among the Chinese long enough to understand,
learn, and communicate their mindset and tradition.
The reader will encounter the mysterious-sounding yin/yang theory,
the transformation of the five elements and chi (lifeforce), and will also
find out how precise diagnoses can be made through testing the pulse and
the color of the tongue. Later comes the mighty acupuncture, a method
used for years during anaesthetic operations. There are also descriptions
of the most important herbs and minerals used by Chinese doctors.
The reader will also find out how doctors used a very complex procedure
to perform check-ups on Chinese lady aristocrats, and how the medical
Canon of the Golden Emperor arrived in Gdańsk and Krakow back during
the Renaissance. The book also reveals from whom Avicenna would have
copied his medical textbook, and whether Copernicus could have known
about the Chinese vaccines against measles.
E. Kajdański makes splendid use of his vast knowledge and passion,
combining stories about himself and his ties with China with explanations
of Chinese philosophies and customs.
The volume is richly illustrated with materials from old Chinese medical
textbooks. Accompanying the main text, there is a list of the books
and medicines mentioned in the text, and their brief descriptions.
Target market
A book for everyone, especially those curious about alternative medicines
and the culture of the East; for those suffering from an illness, and in search
of an alternate cure. Readers of guidebooks.
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Mikołaj Spodaryk,
Elżbieta Grabowska
Mikołaj Spodaryk – a pediatrician, creator and administrator
of the University Children’s Hospital in Krakow-Prokocim, and Vice‑dean
of the Health and Medical Sciences Department of the Andrzej Frycz
Modrzewski Krakow Academy. He is an organizer of camps for children
and an activist. In 2010 he oversaw a project to make flower gardens around
Krakow’s hospitals, where young patients could spend their free time
in an active way. He is the founder of Poland’s first division of Municipal Bike
Emergency Unit. In 2008 he was honored with the title of Good Samaritan
in the health services category.
Elżbieta Gabrowska – a clinical dietician at the Nutritional Care Ward
of the University Children’s Hospital in Krakow-Prokocim. She runs classes
with students at the Jagiellonian University’s Collegium Medicum –
at the Pediatrics, Gastroenterology and Nutrition Clinic.
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Mikołaj Spodaryk, Elżbieta Grabowska
I Know What My Child Is Eating
Wiem, co je moje dziecko
Keynote
A book that is indispensable to all adults, about how the right nutrition is the
best life investment.
Sales points
•Written by top specialists
•Very well received by readers and critics
Description
Pages: 308
Category: Self-Help
A guidebook for parents, nannies, grandparents, and doctors! The first
book to be so reliable, accessible, and practical. Professor Mikołaj Spodaryk
and dietician Elżbieta Gabrowska share their knowledge and experience,
while effectively, thoughtfully, and often humorously dealing with today’s
myths and doubts. Do you wonder:
– whether you should let your child eat chips?
– if pizza is a good idea for lunch?
– what you should be absolutely careful to do as a parent?
Then pick up I Know What My Child Is Eating. There are a number of example
breakfasts and lunches and practical recipes written by an experienced dietician
to help even the most clueless parents feed their children wisely. She explains
to how to feed your children from the first days onward, so that they are
healthy, avoid illness, and grow resistant to various kinds of illnesses
and ailments; what to buy and where; and what rules a parent should always
follow.
“This is the first guidebook to contain such reliable information on feeding children
from the first months to eighteen years of age. A number of example breakfasts
and lunches and practical recipes written by an experienced dietician can help even
the most clueless parents feed their children wisely.”
XXI wiek
“Every page of this guide gives us answers to questions that eventually crop up
in every family.”
Gazeta Wyborcza
Target market
All those interested in healthy eating and diet. Parents, grandparents,
caretakers, dieticians, and doctors
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Irena A. Stanisławska, Dorota Krzywicka,
Dorota Sumińska
How to Live in Harmony with
the Bigger and Smaller Members
of the Household
Jak wychować dziecko, psa, kota… i faceta
Keynote
A unique and lively approach to some very challenging issues.
Sales points
•All three “authors” have a great deal of experience behind them, and they make an electric
combination.
Pages: 326
Category: Self-Help
•A very new slant on a familiar – and ever-popular – subject: how to be happy with the
ones you love.
Description
The interviewers are Irena Stanisławska, onetime journalist on extreme sports
for “Playboy” magazine, and more recently a writer of books on psychology, and
Dorota Krzywicka, a psychologist who has earned some popularity on a Polish
talk show and through her newspaper columns. Their subject is Dorota
Sumińśka – a veterinarian, writer, and author of radio and television
programmes about animals. In this book-length interview the women explore
family relationships, contact with pets, and the analogies between them.
Dynamic, funny, and sometimes arrestingly intimate, this book succeeds with
its sheer charm, and with its unexpected flashes of wisdom and insight. The
language is not afraid to be intelligent, but this never gets in the way of the fun
and delight of reading, and taking part in the interplay between these three
women. “Chick lit” for the whole family.
Target market
Those look for intelligent and modern advice on family matters,
without judgement or moralising.
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Ewa Woydyłło
How to Live with Depression,
but Not in Depression
Bo jesteś człowiekiem. Żyć z depresją, ale nie w depresji
Keynote
This book takes an illness that strikes growing numbers of people and
strives to make it comprehensible and less frightening, without trivializing
its gravity.
Sales points
• An author of around ten popular psychology titles, and a major voice in spreading
Alcoholics Anonymous around Poland.
• A book that is helpful, wise, and perhaps most importantly, healing.
Pages: 284
Category: Self-Help
Description
For her latest installment in a series of books that invite the reader into
the therapist’s office, Woydyłło tackles depression. She begins with simple
observations, allowing for the sickness to be diagnosed and differentiating
it from temporary mood swings, which are often mistaken for depression.
Additionally, the author urges visiting a psychologist or a doctor. With deep
sympathy for the gravity of depression, she helps the reader on the road
leading out of the sickness. Free of specialist jargon, this book speaks to the
reader in simple, clear language, explaining non-medical ways of treating
the illness, and concluding with numerous varieties of professional help.
She also makes use of concrete examples taken from literature or real
life. The psychological tests featured in the book help readers figure out
if they is prone to depression, how they deal with problems, what kind
of relationships they have with other people, and if their life is likely to
make them depressed or not. After reading, we have come to a firmer
understanding of this sickness, and we believe that getting better is possible
– and this is the book’s most important and valuable message.
Target market
Readers of self-help books and psychology “work-books”, readers of women’s
magazines.
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PO E T RY
Ewa Lipska
Ewa Lipska was born in 1945 in Krakow. She is one of the most celebrated
poets whose works stimulate the readers intellectually as well as are
considered to be widely accessible to general public. Her poems were first
published in Gazeta Krakowska while she was still in high school in 1961.
She is a member of Polish and Austrian PEN Club, the Polish Academy of Arts
and Sciences as well as a member – founder of The Association of Polish
Writers.She was an editor at the poetry department at Wydawnictwo
Literackie. She worked at the Polish embassy in Vienna and was a head
of the Polish Institute there. She currently lives and works in Krakow.
She has received up to date numerous literary awards and has participated
in many international festivals of poetry. Her poems are widely translated
and have appeared in over forty collections. Her recent volumes of verse
include Newton’s Orange (2007), Echo (2010) and Dear Ms Schubert (2012).
She published her first novel – Sefer – in 2009.
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PO E T RY
Ewa Lipska
Dear Ms. Schubert
Droga pani Schubert
Pages: 64
Category: Poetry
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New book by Ewa Lipska. The eponymous Ms. Schubert appeared for the
first time in the II part of Ludzie dla początkujących (People for Beginners).
The latest book is a series of twenty three “letters” addressed to “Dear
Ms. Schubert” and – to quote professor Marian Stala – “rather quasi-letters,
letters-poems written in prose, which are concise and highly metaphorical
and whose leading theme is the intangibility of the internal and external
experience, a peculiar distraction of time… Lipska’s poetical prose is as
much replete with meanings and as disturbing as her poems. It is impossible
to grasp them in one reading, they are worth returning to, thinking into
them, looking through their perspective at the world around. It has always
been like this with exquisite poetry.”
PO E T RY
Ewa Lipska
Echo
Pogłos
Keynote
The long-awaited return of one of Poland’s most celebrated poets.
Sales points
• A living classic of Polish literature, whose work only continues to mature.
• Poetry that is both intellectually rewarding and widely accessible.
Description
Pages: 56
Category: Poetry
In her native Poland, each new volume of Ewa Lipska’s poetry is a publishing
event, eagerly awaited by readers and critics alike. Echo, a slim volume of
eighteen poems interspersed with short prose-poems, has been no exception
to this rule. The prose poems are affectionate letters to Franz Schubert,
alternately filled with a longing and nostalgia for a simpler, more tranquil
reality, and expressing a desire for the tragic drama felt in opera. The poems
“proper” often deal with the subject of Lipska’s homeland, and the yearning
to gain some distance from it. As such, they are much more than reflections
on Polish identity; Lipska is wise enough to universalize her work to deal
with the connection between the individual and the national identity.
The other major theme of Echo concerns death, which appears in numerous
guises, whether a looming presence, or a dog left tied outside a shop,
muzzled but patiently waiting. As Professor Marian Stala has summed up:
“Ewa Lipska’s latest volume is the ever-revitalizing, intense poetry well
all know so well, the kind that demands repeated readings. The “echo” of
the title is a metaphor for the stubborn return of the past. It is an invitation
to think over your own life, to look at the space and the time of existence
once more, to look at oneself and at others.”
This is the Lipska I like. I’d advise all beginning poets [...] to start reading her
work.
Malgorzata I. Niemczynska, Gazeta Wyborcza
One of our most outstanding contemporary poets has made us wait a long time
for her new book. But it was well worth the wait. As usual, her wise and beautiful
poems delight with their profound reflections on passing, life and death, and love
– including love of one’s homeland.
Gala
Target market
Those looking for a confident, assured, and deeply intelligent voice in
contemporary poetry.
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PO E T RY
Piotr Matywiecki
Piotr Matywiecki (b. 1943) is an eminent author of volumes of verse,
an essayist and a literary critic.
His collection of poems – Ta chmura powraca – was shortlisted for the Nike
Prize in 2006 and his biography of Julian Tuwim entitled Tuwim’s Face
was shortlisted for the same prize in 2008.It also received Nagroda Literacka
Gdynia in the essay category.
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Piotr Matywiecki
The Audience
Widownia
Keynote
Contemporary poetry for the discerning reader by a contemporary master
of the form.
Sales points
• Winner of the Silesius and the Gdynia awards, and nominee for the Nike and Gdynia
• A poet of the older generation in top form
Description
Pages: to come
Category: poetry
Matywiecki’s poetry demands a great deal of concentration from the reader,
but the effort pays off in spades. The poet sets out on his project with a great
deal of focus; he is always distrustful of language, suspicious of philosophical
slogans and thought cliches. The “Audience” of the title can be taken
as metaphor for the situation the poet participates in. The paradoxes
that Matywiecki culls from language serve to show numerous ruptures in our
understanding of the world and ourselves, our understanding of history
and memory. The audience is a place where observers, including the poet
himself, are placed at the mercy of the ongoing spectacle – but also where
the poet can look to find someone to listen. Matywiecki here reaffirms
his reputation as one of Poland’s most thought-provoking and conscious
contemporary poets.
The Audience should be shelved with lyrical/meditative poetry, strongly tied
to the historical, existential, and artistic experience of the individual. This is a book
for all those in search of a book of profound thoughts and moving experiences.
These readers will appreciate how outstanding Piotr Matywiecki’s work is.
Marian Stala
Target market
Readers of challenging, ambitious contemporary poetry.
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PO E T RY
Jarosław Mikołajewski
Jarosław Mikołajewski (b. 1960) — a poet, writer, and translator from
the Italian; he writes on literature and art. He is the author of six volumes
of poetry, as well as novels. His poems have been translated into Italian,
German, Hebrew, and Greek. He has won many prestigious award. He is also
a journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza.
AWARDS
Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Poetry Award
Brother Albert Award
The Barbara Sadowska Literary Award
The New Poets’ Neighborhood Award
OTHER BOOKS FOR WL:
Tea for a Camel
A Sentimental Portrait of Ryszard Kapuściński
The Male Sense
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PO E T RY
Broken Glasses
Zbite szklanki
Keynote
A master of poetry hits the mark with a minimum of words
Sales points
•One of Poland’s most praised contemporary poets
•Winner of many prestigious awards
•His poetry has been translated into many languages
Description
Pages: 92
Category: Poetry
A new volume of poetry by one of Poland’s most highly praised
contemporary poets.
“Your poems have found not only recognition in my eyes, but in me you have
a true lover of your poetry. What strikes me is the simplicity which is generally
achieved after many years of struggling, generally just prior to death. There is
a certain danger here of being too literal, but you – with the help of our God
Apollo – happily avoid this trap…”
Zbigniew Herbert to Jarosław Mikołajewski
“In terms of the density of emotion, Mikołajewski’s most recent volumes exceed
the work of all our other poets. Alongside the joy of life we find a premonition
of death – almost every poem runs through the entire gamut of moods,
from joyful vitality to despairing melancholy. This poet can be a magician,
an illusionist – he knows the power of fascination, he seduces.”
Piotr Matywiecki, poet and literary critic
Target market
Lovers of contemporary Polish poety.
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PO E T RY
On the Inhalation
Na wdechu
Keynote
The latest volume of poetry from Jarosław Mikołajewski
Description
Mikołajewski is a lyricist by the grace of God. It cannot be overestimated that here
we have a poet with an original, immediate voice – in a time when most poems
are written by parodists who play with conventions, ironists, or “banalists.” If poetry
is indeed a “sign of the times,” then Mikołajewski’s works indicate that the need
for purity of emotions, perhaps even sentimentality, has not utterly vanished.
And more importantly, these works evoke and cultivate a similar sentimentality.
Amid today’s brutality this is an enormous advantage.
Forthcoming
Pages: 44
Category: Poetry
Piotr Matywiecki
Target market
Lovers of contemporary Polish poetry.
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PO E T RY
Adam Waga
Obolus
Obol
Marian Pilot
Final Resolutions
Postanowienia końcowe
Sales points
•Top-shelf Polish poetry and artistic prose.
Description
Pages: 76
Category: Poetry
A reprint of a collection of poems by Klemens Górski (writing under the
pseudonym Adam Waga) with a short story by Marian Pilot, as a commentary
of sorts upon his friend’s poem “A Trifle,” addressing the motifs of time passing,
and of a boat.
Target market
Readers of ambitious contemporary literature.
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Aleksandrowicz Julian, „Kartki z dziennika doktora Twardego”
Anderman Janusz, „Fotografie”
Anderman Janusz, „Gra na zwłokę”
Anderman Janusz „Łańcuch czystych serc”
Anderman Janusz, „Największy słoń na świecie”
Anderman Janusz, „Cały czas”
Axer Erwin, „Czwarte ćwiczenia pamięci”
Baniewicz Elżbieta, „Erwin Axer. Teatr słowa i myśli”
Bartoszewski Władysław, Rogulski Rafał & Rydel Jan, „O Niemcach
i Polakach”
Bereś Stanisław, Konwicki Tadeusz, „Pół wieku czyśćca”
Bikont Piotr, Makłowicz Robert, „Listy pieczętowane sosem,
czyli gdzie karmią najlepiej w Polsce”
Błoński Jan, „25 kawałków”
Błoński Jan, „Biedni Polacy patrzą na getto”
Błoński Jan, „Witkacy za zawsze”
Błoński Jan, „Wszystkie sztuki Sławomira Mrożka”
Błoński Jan, „Wybór pism” t. 1–3
Bocheński Jacek, „Kaprysy starszego pana”
Bolecki Włodzimierz, „Ciemna miłość. Szkice do portretu Gustawa
Herlinga-Grudzińskiego”
Bomba Jacek, Terakowska Dorota, „Być rodziną”, cz. 1 i 2
Borkowska Grażyna, „Maria Dąbrowska i Jerzy Stempowski”
Borkowska Grażyna, „Nierozważna i nieromantyczna. O Halinie
Poświatowskiej”
Boy Tadeusz, „Słówka”, wybór H. Markiewicz
Bronner Irena, „Cykady nad Wisłą i Jordanem”
Brylewski Robert, „Kryzys w Babilonie. Autobiografia”
Burzyńska Anna, „Ostatnia miłość i inne kłopoty”
Cejrowski Wojciech, „Gringo wśród dzikich plemion”
Chętkowski Dariusz, „L.d.d.w. – osierocona generacja”
Chętkowski Dariusz, „Z budy. Czy spuścić ucznia z łańcucha?”
Chrzanowski Tadeusz, „Kresy”
Chwalba Andrzej, „Historia wielkiej wojny”
Czapliński Przemysław, „Efekt bierności. Literatura w czasie
normalnym”
Czapliński Przemysław, Leciński Maciej, Szybowicz Eliza,
Warkocki Błażej, „Kalendarium życia literackiego 1976–2000”
Czapliński Przemysław, „Ślady przełomu”
Czapliński Przemysław, „Wzniosłe tęsknoty”
Ćwięk Henryk, „Rotmistrz Sosnowski”
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Dasko Henryk, „Dworzec gdański”
Długosz Leszek, „Dusza na ramieniu” (with a CD)
Długosz Leszek, „Piwnica idzie do góry”
Dudzińska Magda, Dudziński Andrzej, „Mały alfabet Magdy i Andrzeja
Dudzińskich”
Dudziński Andrzej, „Pokrak”
Dukaj Jacek, „Córka łupieżcy”
Dukaj Jacek, „Extensa”
Dukaj Jacek, „Inne pieśni”
Dukaj Jacek, „Katedra”
Dukaj Jacek, „Lód”
Dukaj Jacek, „Perfekcyjna niedoskonałość”
Dukaj Jacek, „Wroniec”
Dukaj Jacek, „Xavras Wyżryn i inne fikcje narodowe”
Dyduch Grzegorz, Świetlicki Marcin, „Katecheci i frustraci”
Dygat Stanisław, „Podróż”
Dygat Stanisław, „Rozmyślania przy goleniu”
Dygat-Dudzińska Magda, „Biedna pani Morris”
Dygat-Dudzińska Magda, „Kupić dym, sprzedać mgłę’”
Dygat-Dudzińska Magda, „Rozstania”
Elektorowicz Leszek, „Niektóre stronice. Wiersze wybrane”
Fabiański Marcin, „Drugi Rzym”
Ficowski Jerzy „Pantareja”
Ficowski Jerzy, „Zawczas z poniewczasem”
Filipiak Izabela, „Alma”
Filipowicz Kornel, „Cienie”
Fox Marta, „Kobieta zaklęta w kamień”
Fox Marta, „Zuzanna nie istnieje”
Franczak Jerzy, „Da capo”
Franczak Jerzy, „Nieludzka komedia”
Gabryś Mirosław, „Zwłoki monterów idą w miasto”
Galewicz Włodzimierz, „Sokrates i Kirke”
Galewicz Włodzimierz, „Z Arystotelesem przez greckie tragedie”
Garbicz Adam, „Kino – wehikuł magiczny”
Glensk Urszula, „Proza wyzwolonej generacji”
Głowiński Michał, „Autobiografia”
Głowiński Michał, „Czarne sezony”
Głowiński Michał, „Gombrowicz i nadliteratura”
Głowiński Michał, „Historia jednej topoli”
Głowiński Michał, „Magdalenka z razowego chleba”
Głowiński Michał, „Przywidzenia i figury”
Głowiński Michał, „Skrzydła i pięta”
Grochola Katarzyna, „Cud w eterze”
Grochola Katarzyna, „Houston, mamy problem”
Grochola Katarzyna, Wiśniewski Andrzej, „Gry i zabawy małżeńskie
i pozamałżeńskie”
Grochola Katarzyna, „Kryształowy Anioł”
Grochola Katarzyna, Szelągowska Dorota, „Makatka” (except
English rights)
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Grochola Katarzyna, „Podanie o miłość”
Grochola Katarzyna, „Przegryźć dżdżownicę”
Grochola Katarzyna, „Trzepot skrzydeł”
Grochola Katarzyna, „Upoważnienie do szczęścia”
Grochola Katarzyna, „Zielone drzwi”
Grochola Katarzyna, Wiśniewski Andrzej, „Związki i rozwiązki
miłosne”
Gross Natan, „Kim pan jest, panie Grymek”
Grupińska Anka, „Odczytanie Listy. Opowieść o powstańcach
żydowskich”
Górski Klemens, „Obol”
Grzywaczewski Tomasz, „Wyprawa śladami Witolda Glińskiego”
(working title)
Gutowski Wojciech, „Z próżni nieba ku religii życia”
Harasymowicz Jerzy, „Późne lato”
Hartwig Julia, „Dzienniki”
Hennelowa Józefa, „O Kościele”
Herling-Grudziński Gustaw, „Przewodnik po sobie samym”
Huberach Marek S., „Balsam długiego pożegnania”
Huberath Marek S., „Miasta pod Skałą”
Hubertah Marek S., „Vatran Auraio”
Janowska Katarzyna, Bomba Jacek, „Rozmowy o seksie i seksualności”
Jan Paweł II, „Autobiografia”
Jan Paweł II, „Elementarz Jana Pawła II, cz. I i II”
Janko Anna, „Dziewczynka z zapałkami” (except German rights)
Janko Anna, „Pasja według świętej Hanki” (except German rights”
Jarzębski Jerzy, „Wszechświat Lema”
Jastrun Mieczysław, „Dzienniki”
Jeromin-Gałuszka Grażyna, „Fryderyka” (working title)
Jurewicz Aleksander, „Dzień przed końcem świata”
Kaczmarek Ryszard, „Polacy w armii Kajzera”
Kaczmarek Ryszard, „Polacy w Wermachcie”
Kajdański Edward, „Medycyna chińska dla każdego”
Kamińska Anna, „Adoptowani”
Karpiński Daniel, „Fikcja”
Karpowicz Ignacy, „Balladyny i romanse”
Karpowicz Ignacy, „Gesty”
Kasdepke Grzegorz, „Sprzedawca uśmiechów. Poradnik hodowcy
aniołów aniołów”
Kępiński Antoni, „Autoportret człowieka”
Kępiński Antoni, „Jak leczyć i poznawać człowieka”
Kępiński Antoni, „Lęk”
Kępiński Antoni, „Podstawowe zagadnienia współczesnej psychiatrii”
Kępiński Antoni, „Poznanie chorego”
Kępiński Antoni, „Psychopatie”
Kępiński Antoni, „Psychopatologia nerwic”
Kępiński Antoni, „Rytm życia”
Kępiński Antoni, „Schizofrenia”
Kępiński Antoni, „Z psychopatologii życia seksualnego”
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Kern Ludwik Jerzy, „Abecadłowo”
Kern Ludwik Jerzy, „Cztery łapy”
Kern Ludwik Jerzy, „Dyskretne podglądanie rodaków”
Kern Ludwik Jerzy, „Ferdynand Wspaniały”
Kern Ludwik Jerzy, „Imiona nadwiślańskie”
Kern Ludwik Jerzy, „Litery cztery
Kern Ludwik Jerzy, „Zbudź się, Ferdynandzie”
Klejnocki Jarosław, „Opcje na śmierć”
Klejnocki Jarosław, „Południk 21”
Kłoczowski Jan Andrzej, Badeni Joachim, Jan Strzałka, Artur Sporniak,
„Boskie oko”
Kobza Piotr, „Polskie rekolekcje”
Koehler Krzysztof, „Trzecia część”
Komar Michał, Petelicki Stanisław, „Generał Grom”
Komendołowicz Iza, „Elka”
Kopka Bogusław, „Gułag nad Wisłą”
Kornhauser Julian, „Księżyc jak mandarynka”
Kornhauser Julian, „Poezja i codzienność”
Kornhauser Julian, „Uśmiech Sfinksa. O poezji Zbigniewa Herberta”
Kott Jan, „Szekspir współczesny”
Kott Jan, „Szekspir współczesny 2”
Kowalewski Włodzimierz, „Ludzie moralni”
Kozioł Urszula, „Deseń”
Kozioł Urszula, „Supliki”
Krajewski Kazimierz, „Armia Krajowa na Wschodzie”
Kraskowska Ewa, „Siostry Brönte”
Krenz Katarzyna, „Lekcja tańca”
Krenz Katarzyna, „Podróż”
Krupiński Wacław, „Głowy piwniczne”
Kruszyński Zbigniew, „Ostatni raport”
Kruszyński Zbigniew, „Powrót Aleksandra”
Kruszyński Zbigniew, „Szkice historyczne”
Kubica-Heller Grażyna, „Siostry Malinowskiego”
Kuryluk Ewa, „Frascati” (except English)
Kuryluk Ewa, „Goldi”
Kwiatkowski Tadeusz, „Lunapark”
Kydryński Lucjan, „Kroniki rodzinne”
Legutko Piotr (ed.), „Rozmowy o dorastaniu”
Legutko Piotr, Rodziewicz Dobrosław, „Mity czwartej władzy”
Leociak Jacek, „O ratujących z Zagłady”
Ligęza Wojciech, „O poezji Wisławy Szymborskiej. Świat w stanie
korekty”
Lipska Ewa, „1999”
Lipska Ewa, „Droga pani Schubert”
Lipska Ewa, „Gdzie Indziej”
Lipska Ewa, „Ja”
Lipska Ewa, „Pogłos”
Lipska Ewa, „Pomarańcza Newtona”
Lipska Ewa, „Sefer”
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Lipska Ewa, „Sklepy zoologiczne”
Lipska Ewa, „Uwaga: stopień”
Lisowski Krzysztof, „Feng shui dla bezdomnych”
Lupa Krystian, Matkowska-Święs Beata, „Podróż do Nieuchwytnego”
Lupa Krystian, „Utopia 2. Penetracje”
Łopuszański Piotr, „Leśmianowie”
Madej Bogdan, „Abonament”
Madej Bogdan, „Maść na szczury”
Madej Bogdan, „Piękne kalalie”
Madeyska Ewa, „Katoniela”
Majewski Lech, „Metafizyka”
Makowski Jarosław (ed.), „Dziesięć ważnych słów”
Maleńczuk Maciej, „Chamstwo w państwie”
Małecki Jan, „Historia Krakowa”
Margański Janusz, „Geografia pragnień. Opowieść o Gombrowiczu”
Markiewicz Henryk, „Cytaty mądre i zabawne”
Markiewicz Henryk, „Jeszcze dopowiedzenia”
Markiewicz Henryk, „Mój życiorys polonistyczny z historią w tle”
Markiewicz Henryk, Romanowski Andrzej, „Skrzydlate słowa”
Markowski Michał Paweł, „Anatomia ciekawości”
Markowski Michał Paweł, „Czarny nurt. Gombrowicz, świat,
literatura”
Masłoń Krzysztof, „Lekcja historii najnowszej”
Maślanka Mariusz, „Jutro będzie lepiej”
Mateja Anna, „Cud w medycynie”
Mateja Anna, „Cud w medycynie – historie pacjentów”
Matkowska-Święs Beata, „Krakowskie gadanie”
Matywiecki Piotr, „Powietrze i cień”
Matywiecki Piotr, „Ta chmura powraca”
Matywiecki Piotr, „Widownia”
Michalak Katarzyna, „Lato w Jagódce”
Michalak Katarzyna, „Powrót do Poziomki”
Michalak Katarzyna, „Rok w Poziomce”
Michalak Katarzyna, „Wiśniowy dworek”
Michalska Francesca, „Cała radość życia’
Michałowska Danuta, „Pamięć nie zawsze święta. Wspomnienia”
Miecznicka Magdalena, „Cudowna kariera Magdy M”
Miecznicka Magdalena, „Złość”
Mikołajewski Jarosław, „Herbata dla wielbłąda”
Mikołajewski Jarosław, „Męski zmysł”
Mikołajewski Jarosław, „ Na wdechu”
Mikołajewski Jarosław, „Zbite szklanki”
Mikrut Grzegorz, Wiktor Krzysztof, „Sekty za zamkniętymi drzwiami”
Miłaszewski Stanisław, „Poezje”
Mitosek Zofia, „Pelargonie”
Moczulski Leszek Aleksander, „Jej nigdy za późno”
Motyka Grzegorz, „Od rzezi wołyńskiej do akcji „Wisła”.
Konflikt polsko-ukraiński 1943–1947”
Mrożek Sławomir, Tarn Andrzej, „Listy”
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Musiał Stanisław, „Dwanaście koszy ułomków”
Musiał Stanisław, „Czarne jest czarne”
Komendołowicz Iza, „Elka. Wspomnienie o Elżbiecie Czyżewskiej”
Nasiłowska Anna, „Czteroletnia filozofka”
Nasiłowska Anna, „Jean Paul Sartre i Simone de Beauvoir”
Nowak Katarzyna, „Kasika Mowka”
Nowak Katarzyna T., „Moja mama czarownica. Opowieść o Dorocie
Terakowskiej”
Nyczek Tadeusz, „Kos. O poezji Adama Zagajewskiego”
Odija Daniel, „Niech to nie będzie sen”
Oleś‑Owczarkowa Teresa, „Rauska”
Olszewski Michał, „Low tech”
Orbitowski Łukasz, „Nadchodzi”
Orbitowski Łukasz, „Swięty Wrocław”
Orbitowski Łukasz, „Tracę ciepło”
Orłoś Kazimierz, „Bez Ciebie nie mogę żyć”
Orłoś Kazimierz, „Dom pod Lutnią”
Orłoś Kazimierz, „Drewniane mosty”
Orłoś Kazimierz, „Opowieść mazurska”
Orłoś Kazimierz, „Wspomnienia rodzinne”
Ostaszewski Robert, „Dola idola i inne bajki z raju konsumenta”
Orwid Maria, „Przeżyć… I co dalej?”
Orwid Maria „Trauma”
Paczkowski Andrzej, „Droga do mniejszego zła”
Penderecki Krzysztof, „Pendereccy. Saga rodzinna”
Pankiewicz Tadeusz, „Apteka w getcie krakowskim”
Peiper Tadeusz, „Wśród ludzi na scenach”
Pepłoński Andrzej, „Wojna o tajemnice. W tajnej służbie Drugiej
Rzeczpospolitej 1918–1944”
Petelicki Sławomir, Michał Komar, „GROM: Siła i honor”
Pilch Jerzy, „Bezpowrotnie utracona leworęczność”
Pilch Jerzy, „Rozpacz z powodu utraty furmanki”
Pilch Jerzy, „Spis cudzołożnic”
Pilch Jerzy, „Tezy o głupocie, piciu i umieraniu”
Pilch Jerzy, „Tysiąc spokojnych miast”
Pilch Jerzy, „Upadek człowieka pod Dworcem Centralnym”
Pilch Jerzy, „Wyznania twórcy pokątnej literatury erotycznej”
Pilot Marian, „Nowy Matecznik”
Pilot Marian, „Osobnik”
Pilot Marian, „Pantałyk”
Pilot Marian, „Pióropusz”
Podraza-Kwiatkowska Maria, „Wolność i transcendencja”
Porębski Mieczysław, „Krytycy i sztuka”
Porębski Mieczysław, „Nowosielski”
Porębski Mieczysław, „Polskość jako sytuacja”
Porębski Mieczysław, „Spotkanie z Ablem”
Porębski Mieczysław, „Wakacje Sinobrodego”
Polkowski Jan, „Elegie z Tymowskich Gór”
Protasiuk Michał, „Święto rewolucji”
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Praca Zbiorowa, „Kalendarium dziejów Polski”
Pszoniak Wojciech, Komar Michał, „Rozmowy”
Purchla Jacek, „Przewodnik po architekturze Krakowa”
Pyrkosz Witold, Grużewska Anna, Komendołowicz Iza,
„Podwójnieurodzony”
Rogowski Sławomir, „Zima stulecia”
Rolicz-Lieder Wacław, „Wybór poezji”
Romanowski Wiesław, „Śmierć we Lwowie”
Romanowski Wiesław, „Ukraina. Przystanek wolność”
Ronikier Adam, „Pamiętniki”
Ronikier Joanna, „Piotr”
Różewicz Tadeusz, „Duszyczka”
Sadaj Ryszard, „Terapia Pauliny T.”
Sapieżyna Maria ze Zdzichowskich, „Moje życie, mój czas”
Sapieżyna Matylda, „My i nasze Siedliska”
Słomczyńska-Pierzchalska Małgorzata, „Nie mogłem być inny. Zagadka
Macieja Słomczyńskiego”
Sobolewska Anna, „Maski Pana Boga”
Sosnowski Jerzy, „Ach!”
Sosnowski Jerzy, „Instalacja Idziego”
Sowa Andrzej Leon, „Historia polityczna Polski 1944–1991”
Spodaryk Mikolaj, Gabrowska Elżbieta, „Wiem, co je moje dziecko”
Stala Marian, „Przeszukiwanie czasu”
Staniszkis Jadwiga, „O władzy i bezsilności”
Staniszkis Jadwiga, Cieślar Artur, „Wschód i zachód. Spotkania”
Stańko Tomasz, Księżyk Rafał, „Desperado! Autobiografia”
Stawiarska Agnieszka, „Przedwojenny Gombrowicz”
Stefko Jolanta, „Ja nikogo nie lubię oprócz siebie”
Stefko Jolanta, „Kolorowe wiersze”
Stefko Jolanta, „Omnis moriar”
Stefko Jolanta, „Pół książki o kocie, pół książki o psie”
Stefko Jolanta, „Wódociąg”
Stephan Halina, „Życie w przekładzie”
Strzałka Jan, „O psach, kotach i aniołach”
Strzałka Jan, Sporniak Artur, „Autobiografia – rozmowy z ojcem
Badenim”
Stuhr Jerzy, „Stuhrowie. Historie rodzinne”
Stuhr Jerzy, „Tak sobie myślę”
Sumińska Dorota, „Autobiografia na czterech łapach”
Sumińska Dorota, „Dalej na czterech łapach”
Sumińska Dorota, „Jak jeż Jerzy został ojcem”
Sumińska Dorota, Krzywicka Dorota, „Jak żyć w zgodzie z większymi
i mniejszymi domownikami. Rozmawia Irena A. Stanisławska”
Sumińska Dorota, „Świat według psa”
Sumińska Dorota, „Zwierz w łóżku”
Sumińska Dorota, „Zwykłe, niezwykłe życie”
Szatkowska Anna, „Był dom … Wspomnienia”
Szewc Piotr, „Całkiem prywatnie”
Szczawiński Wojciech, „Myśli przy końcu drogi”
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Szczepański Jan Józef, „Przed Nieznanym Trybunałem”
Szczepański Jan Józef, „Rozłogi”
Szczepkowska Joanna, „Fragmenty z życia lustra”
Szczepkowska Joanna, „Sześć minut przed czasem”
Szczepkowska Joanna, „Goła baba”
Szewc Piotr, „Bociany nad powiatem”
Szewc Piotr, „Zmierzchy i poranki”
Szlosarek Artur, „Wiersze powtórzone”
Sztaudynger Jan, Sztaudynger‑Kaliszewiczowi Anna, „Chwalipięta,
czyli rozmowy z Tatą”
Sztaudynger Jan, „Piórka”
Sztaudynger Jan, „Puch ostu”
Sztaudynger Jan, „Szczęście z datą wczorajszą”
Szuber Janusz, „Wpis do ksiąg wieczystych””
Szymańska Adriana, „In terra”
Szymborska Wisława, „Lektury nadobowiązkowe”
Świda‑Ziemba Hanna, „Młodzież PRL-u. Portrety pokoleń”
Świda-Ziemba Hanna, „Młodzi w nowym świecie”
Świda-Ziemba Hanna, „Urwany lot”
Terakowska Dorota, „Być rodziną, czyli jak zmieniamy się przez
całe życie”
Terakowska Dorota, „Córka czarownic”
Terakowska Dorota, „Dobry adres to człowiek”
Terakowska Dorota, „Lustro pana Grymsa”
Terakowska Dorota, „Muzeum Rzeczy Nieistniejących”
Terakowska Dorota, „Ono”
Terakowska Dorota, „Poczwarka”
Terakowska Dorota, „Samotność Bogów”
Terakowska Dorota, „Tam gdzie spadają Anioły”
Terakowska Dorota, „W krainie Kota”
Terakowska Dorota, „Władca Lewawu”
Terlecki Ryszard, „Profesorzy UJ w aktach SB”
Terlecki Ryszard, „Historia służb specjalnych PRL-u”
Tomaszewska Anna, „Wiersze do czytania”
Tomaszewski Mieczysław, „Fryderyk Chopin i George Sand”
Twardoch Szczepan, „Morfina” (except French rights)
Twardowski Jan, „Abecadło ks. Jana Twardowskiego”
Twardowski Jan, „Autobiografia”, opr. A. Iwanowska
Twardowski Jan, „Elementarz księdza Twardowskiego dla
najmłodszego, średniaka i starszego”, opr. A. Iwanowska
Waga Adam, „Obol” (Pilot Marian „Postanowienia końcowe”)
Walas Teresa, „Zrozumieć swój czas”
Wałęsa Danuta, „Marzenia i tajemnice”
Waniek Henryk, „Sprawa Newtona”
Wencel Wojciech, „Ziemia Święta”
Winklowa Barbara, „Wanda i Narcyza”
Wiśniewski Janusz L., „Czy mężczyźni są światu potrzebni”
Wiśniewski Janusz L. „Intymna Teoria Względności”
Wiśniewski Janusz L., „Moja bliskość największa”
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Wiśniewski Janusz L., „Molekuły emocji”
Wiśniewski Janusz L., „Sceny z życia za ścianą”
Wiśniewski Janusz L., „Ukrwienia”
Włodek Ludwika, „Pra”
Woydyłło Ewa, „Buty szczęścia”
Woydyłło Ewa, „O depresji”
Woydyłło Ewa, „Podnieś głowę”
Woydyłło Ewa, „Szczęśliwe życie”
Woydyłło Ewa, „Z zgodzie ze sobą”
Woźniak Maciej, „Iluzjon”
Woleński Jan, „Granice niewiary”
Wyka Marta, „Autobiografia”
Wyka Kazmierz, „Wśród poetów”
Wysocki Radek, „Human Tuman”
Zając Andrzej, „Elementarz świętego Franciszka dla wszystkich,
którzy mieszkają na całym świecie”
Zaleski Marek, „Zamiast. O twórczości Czesława Miłosza”
Zblewski Zbigniew „Wolność i Niezawisłość”
Zechenter-Spławińska Elżbieta, „Pod gwiaździstym niebem”
Zettinger Piotr, „Nietutejszy”
Ziemny Aleksander, „Późne sonety”
Zimmerer Katarzyna, „Zamordowany świat. Losy Żydów w Krakowie
1939–1945”
Zimmerer Katarzyna, Orwid Maria, „Nie wszystko opowiem”
Zoll Andrzej, „Saga rodzinna”
Żabińska Antonina, Borsunio” (with prior consent of the Estate”
Żabińska Antonina, „Dżolly i Ska” (with prior consent of the Estate)
Żabińska Antonina, „Ludzie i zwierzęta” (with prior consent of the
Estate)
Żabińska Antonina, „Rysice” (with prior consent of the Estate)
Życiński Józef, „Elementarz księdza Życińskiego dla biskupa
i świeckiego”
Życiński Józef, „Odyseusz czy playboy? Życiowa odyseja człowieka”
Życiński Józef, „Wiara wątpiących”

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