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andrzej stasiuk
Novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic, Andrzej Stasiuk was born in 1960 in Warsaw, Poland. After being
kicked out of high school he was involved in the pacifist movement of the early 1980s and spent a year and a half
in prison for deserting the army in a tank. Upon his release he began writing for underground newspapers, and his
first book, The Walls of Hebron, a collection of twelve stories based on his prison experience, achieved cult
status. With little interest in Warsaw literary life, he moved in 1987 to an isolated hamlet in the Lower Beskids,
where he and his wife run the independent publishing house Czarne, which they founded in 1996. Since his debut in
1992, Stasiuk has been touted as one of the most important writers of his generation. His novel White Raven
became a bestseller and has been translated into a number of languages. He is a recipient of the 1994 Foundation of
Culture Prize, the 1995 Koscielski Prize, and has been nominated four times for the Nike Prize, Poland's National
Book Award, winning it in 2005 for Going to Babadag, an account of his travels through Albania, and he is the recipient of the 2008
Vilenica Prize.
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published by TSP:
Tales of Galicia
also by the author:
White Raven
Nine
Fado
On the Road to Babadag
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