The Feminist Press’s Lauren Hook sends a dispatch from Kraków’s annual Conrad Festival, reflecting particularly on the inspiring women writers she met there.
Read MorePlaying Vietnamese
For PEN Atlas this week Mariusz Szczygieł writes about the strange case of a Vietnamese literary prodigy in the Czech Republic who proved that fact is stranger than fiction
Read MoreOnce I Was a Dog
Jacek Hugo-Bader writes about the scavenging life of the journalist for this week’s PEN Atlas, and how living down and out in Moscow and Warsaw prepared him for his bicycle and Volvo journeys across Central Asia
Read MoreAny questions for the author?
Jacek Dehnel writes a taxonomy of the literary event attendee, including ‘the star’, ‘the obsessive’, ‘the well-meaning person’ and ‘the fixer’, all of whom keep life interesting – and strange – for the travelling author
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A – Hanna Krall, author of Chasing the King of Hearts
Finally available in the UK, Hanna Krall’s literary reportage about the Holocaust is unparalleled in its power and immediacy. Chasing the King of Hearts recreates the Holocaust not as an historical event but as a terrifying shared experience
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A – Hanna Krall, author of Chasing the King of Hearts
Finally available in the UK, Hanna Krall’s literary reportage about the Holocaust is unparalleled in its power and immediacy. Chasing the King of Hearts recreates the Holocaust not as an historical event but as a terrifying shared experience
Read MoreTwo stories by Sławomir Mrożek
A special dispatch from PEN Atlas this week features two stories from Sławomir Mrożek, the Polish author and cartoonist who died recently, and will be remembered for his surreal and subversive work
Read MoreNo offence meant
Award-winning translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones experiences extreme public reactions to the latest crime novel she has translated on a recent trip to Poland…
Read MoreTadeusz Różewicz and The Struggle for Poetry
For PEN Atlas this week, Basia Howard writes about Tadeusz Różewicz, Poland’s most translated writer. His memoir Mother Departs, published by Stork Press in March, describes the war he survived and that forged his poetic conscience
Read MoreThe Wizard and the Ghetto
PEN Atlas explores the story of a Polish hero, Janusz Korczak, the children’s author who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A – Artur Domosławski, author of Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Artur Domosławski, author of the controversial and popular biography Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life.
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A – Artur Domosławski, author of Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Artur Domosławski, author of the controversial and popular biography Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life.
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