Bukareszt. Kurz i krew by Małgorzata Rejmer

Stamm has been nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis. Drzewo Babel), although his short stories are equally excellent. Peter Stamm, a Swiss prose writer, is well-known in Poland thanks to his novels ‘Agnes’ and ‘Seven Years’ (Wyd. Czech Republic will be represented by Marek Šindelka, whose collection ‘Zostańcie z nami’ will be published in Anna Wanik’s translation by the Wroclaw publishing house Afera.

The line-up will be complemented by Polish writers: Jacek Dehnel, Andrzej Muszyński (winner of the ISSF Prize in 2012), Łukasz Orbitowski, and Wit Szostak. Kurz i krew’ ), an Austrian writer Anna Weidenholzer, who studied in Wroclaw, and an excellent British prose writer Lucy Caldwell (she has won, among others, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Dylan Thomas Prize). This year’s festival will be held in historic interiors of the recently opened Pan Tadeusz Museum and will include presentations of latest texts by authors from Poland and abroad, including a strong women’s team consisting of: Liliana Hermetz (winner of the Conrad Prize for her novel ‘Alicyjka’), Dominika Słowik (author of the loudly acclaimed debut novel ‘Atlas: doppelganger’), Zyta Rudzka, Iza Klementowska (‘Szkielet białego słonia’ ), Małgorzata Rejmer (‘Bukareszt.

This year’s festival devoted to short prose works will be held under the slogan ‘History of the Future’ with the participation of authors from countries such as Israel, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, etc., from 6th till 9th October 2016.

Bukareszt. Kurz i krew by Małgorzata Rejmer