Thank you to Larry Wolff for this review in the TLS of The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories, and for a perfect display of naming the translator, with praise for stories translated by Jess Jensen Mitchell, Stan Bill, Jenny Croft, Sean Bye & Madeline Levine. www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
Joanna Olczak Ronikier’s remarkable biography of her Polish-Jewish family was recently reissued in the US, thanks to her indomitable cousin, Peter Osnos. Here is a helpful review that explains why this is such an exceptional book. momentmag.com/book-review-...
Here’s an excellent article in The Spectator about one of my favourite Polish authors, Mariusz Szczygieł. It’s great to see his genius gaining recognition in English. www.spectator.co.uk/article/ther...
Here’s a newly published translation of “Siren”, a story by Margo Rejmer from her collection “The Burden of Skin”. I find this story haunting, beautiful but unsettling, which is fairly typical of Rejmer’s powerful writing. fourwayreview.com/the-heart-of...
Thursday was publication day for “Not There” by Mariusz Szczygieł, an intriguing collection of features loosely connected by the experience of loss, and plenty of other experiences too. To the author’s surprise, this very personal book was a big hit in Poland. www.polskieradio.pl/395/7791/art...
The U.S. covers are excellent for Empusium and House of Day (we’re with Riverhead there).
Also @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Yes! :-) And in Primeval and Other Times, being reissued in the spring, there are genderless angels.
Yes, do finish Empusium; you’ll see when you read House of Day, written in 1998, that she was already exploring gender themes then.
If you didn’t catch it the first time around, my translation of House of Day, House of Night has recently been published by Fitzcarraldo, and has an interesting queer theme in the story of the monk Paschalis and Saint Kummernis.
Oliver Ready’s translation for Penguin Classics.
Only a little but you might enjoy the reinstated sections.
Here’s a new children’s picture book from @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social in my translation, the third in a series by Tina Oziewicz and Aleksandra Zając, ideal for prompting conversations about emotions as well as for pure entertainment. pushkinpress.com/book/what-fe...
It’s UK publication day for House of Day, House of Night, by Olga Tokarczuk, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social This „constellation novel” is set in the author’s home village in SW Poland. fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/house-...
“The anthology’s constellation of animals, children, misfits and survivors reshapes the image of Poland for the English reader...”
Agnes Dudek interviews ALTA member Antonia Lloyd-Jones about her recent translation project, a collection of Polish short stories. At Culture Pi:
I reviewed House of Day, House of Night - Olga Tokarczuk’s mosaic of memory, myth and misfits translated by #AntoniaLloydJones & publ by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social - for @ftweekend.com - online now: www.ft.com/content/7886... via @ft
As the Jewish telegram put it: "Start worrying. Details to follow."
My review of Mikołaj Łoziński's My Name is Stramer (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones): the story of a Jewish family in Poland between the wars, with plenty of comedy and an increasing measure of darkness.
A very positive first review in the Jewish Chronicle for My Name is Stramer, Mikołaj Łoziński’s fictionalised family story. www.thejc.com/life/my-name...
"Its thematic architecture gives newcomers a compass while leaving seasoned Poland‑watchers ample room to wander." Agnieszka Dale reviews Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s new anthology “The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/poland-as-a-state-of-mind/
"Every interaction has the weight of a move in a multidimensional chess game... Elegantly translated by Kasia Beresford, “Inner Space” is by turns lyrical, claustrophobic and terrifying." @nytimes.com on Jakub Szamalek's novel
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...
& @kasiabesfud.bsky.social she called your translation "elegant"! (And she doesn't even know how beautifully you recreated time to accommodate mother & child zooms from space...)
Posting this in the spirit of early-bird-catches-the-worm: October is still a way off but please put this in your diaries as Oksana is a star ⭐ and it will be enlightening to read and talk with her
harriman.columbia.edu/event/women-...
Fed up with the exhausting process of finding the perfect publisher for your translation? At @wwborders.bsky.social, check out this tongue-in-cheek essay by translator from French Laura Vergnaud about the dos and don’ts of searching for a publisher: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
In the Garden of Memory open.substack.com/pub/peterosn... Antonia Lloyd-Jones explains the book as only she can...
‘It makes no sense for the perpetrators of genocide to be entrusted with the provision of aid to the people they are trying to kill.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Tobias Carroll on the June titles in translation you won't want to miss, from Peru, Tanzania, Tibet, and more. Read the June Watchlist:
Many thanks to James Hopkin for this fabulous first review of The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. Free to read if you register. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-hopkin...
By Jakub Kamiński.
It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.
