Synopses & Reviews
Born in 1966,
MARIUSZ SZCZYGIEŁ has been a reporter for
Gazeta Wyborcza since 1990. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his writing on Poland and Czechoslovakia, including the Europe Book Prize and the Prix l'Amphi for
Gottland. From 1995-2001, he hosted his own talk show ("Na każdy temat", "On Any Topic"). Together with Wojciech Tochman and Paweł Goźliński, he runs the Polish Reportage Institute in Warsaw.
Translator ANTONIA LLOYD-JONES is the pre-eminent translator of Polish reportage: the authors she has translated included Wojciech Tochman, Wojciech Jagielski, Jacek Hugo-Bader, and Ryszard Kapuscinski. She received the Found in Translation Award from the Polish Cultural Institute in 2008 for her translation of Pawell Huelle's novel The Last Supper.