The London Book Fair 2016

140 Pages·2016·4.26 MB·English

2016
A
The London Book Fair 2016
Rights Catalogue
Wydawnictwo
literackie
FRoNtlist
Contact Information
SUPERVISORY BOARD
Chairperson Vera Michalski-Hoffmann
Tomasz Wardyński
Mirosław Zaremba
Council Chairperson Anna Zaremba-Michalska
Editor-in-Chief Małgorzata Nycz
Head Editorial Secretary Maria Rola
Editorial Secretary Krystyna Zaleska
Finance Director Dariusz Kurdziel
Sales Director Grzegorz Głódkowski
PR & Marketing Director Marcin Baniak
Foreign Rights Manager
Joanna Dąbrowska
e-mail: [email protected]
Editor
Jolanta Korkuć
e-mail: [email protected]
Editor
Paweł Ciemniewski
e-mail: [email protected]
Address
Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers Co. Ltd
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Contents
5 About Wydawnictwo Literackie
FICTION
Contemporary Fiction
10 Grzegorzewska Gaja – The Concrete Palace
13 Janko Anna – The Matchbox Girl
14 Janko Anna – The Passion According to Saint Hanka
15 Janko Anna – A Small Holocaust
18 Karpowicz Ignacy – Offbeat
20 Karpowicz Ignacy – The Miracle
21 Karpowicz Ignacy – Gestures
22 Karpowicz Ignacy – Balladynas and Romances
23 Karpowicz Ignacy – Fish Bones
25 Karpowicz Ignacy – Sonia
28 Lipko Tomasz – Notebook
31 Muszyński Andrzej – Damagedon
36 Pilch Jerzy – The Confessions of a Closet Scribbler of Erotic Fiction
37 Pilch Jerzy – A List of Adulteresses
38 Pilch Jerzy – Despair at the Loss of a Cart
39 Pilch Jerzy – A Thousand Peaceful Cities
41 Pilch Jerzy – The Irreversible Loss of Left-Handedness
43 Pilch Jerzy – The Fall of a Man in front of Warsaw Central Station
45 Pilch Jerzy – The Other Journal
47 Pilch Jerzy – Zuza, or: A Time of Growing Distant
50 Tokarczuk Olga – Prawiek and Other Times
51 Tokarczuk Olga – House of Day, House of Night
52 Tokarczuk Olga – The Doll and the Pearl
53 Tokarczuk Olga – Playing on Many Drums
54 Tokarczuk Olga – Runners
55 Tokarczuk Olga – Guide Your Plow Through the Bones of the Dead
56 Tokarczuk Olga – The Books of Jacob
59 Twardoch Szczepan – Eternal Grunwald
60 Twardoch Szczepan – Morphine
61 Twardoch Szczepan – Drach
Women’s Fiction
64 Grochola Katarzyna – The Flutter of Wings
65 Grochola Katarzyna – The Crystal Angel
66 Grochola Katarzyna – The Green Door
67 Grochola Katarzyna – Houston, We Have a Problem
68 Grochola Katarzyna – A Slightly Bigger Monday
3 70 Grochola Katarzyna – Lost Heaven
72 Gutowska-Adamczyk Małgorzata – Calendars
74 Kowalewska Hanna – Beyond the Shadow
77 Michalak Katarzyna – In the Name of Love
79 Michalak Katarzyna – Anything for You
80 Michalak Katarzyna – I Won’t Give Up the Children
83 Wiśniewski Janusz Leon – My True Stories
Children’s and Young Adult Fiction
85 Lang Adam – Keys
89 Terakowska Dorota – Cocoon
90 Terakowska Dorota – It
91 Terakowska Dorota – Where the Angels Fall
92 Terakowska Dorota – The Witch’s Daughter
Science Fiction & Fantasy
94 Piskorski Krzysztof – Shadowcarving
95 Piskorski Krzysztof – Volta
97 Piskorski Krzysztof – Chronicles of the Age of Ether
98 Piskorski Krzysztof – Splinter
NON-FICTION
Biography – Autobiography – Memoirs
101 Michalska Franceska – All the Joy of Living. In Volhynia, in Kazakhstan,
in Poland
103 Scenes with Mrożek: 39 Stories from Different Places and Times,
ed. by Magdalena Miecznicka
105 Pankiewicz Tadeusz – The Pharmacy in the Krakow Ghetto
107 Penderecki Krzysztof, Janowska Katarzyna, Mucharski Piotr –
The Penderecki Family. A Saga
108 Pilch Jerzy – There’s Always Never
111 Poświatowska Halina – Story for a Friend
112 Twardoch Szczepan – Whales and Moths. Memoirs
114 Wałęsa Danuta, ed. Piotr Adamowicz – Dreams and Secrets
116 Wilk Paulina – Distinguishing Marks
119 Włodek Ludwika – A Tale of the Iwaszkiewicz Family
History
121 Andrusiewicz Andrzej – The Romanovs
123 Chwalba Andrzej – Europe’s Suicide. World War I 1914–1918
125 Nowak Andrzej – The West’s First Betrayal
127 Sowa Andrzej Leon – A Political History of Poland 1944–1991
128 LIST OF AUTHORS AVAILABLE FOR TRANSLATION
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About Wydawnictwo Literackie
For 63 years we have been inspiring, creating and publishing: exceptional
Authors, exceptional books.
In the very heart of Krakow, in the famed and distinctive Pod Globusem
Building on Długa Street 1, stands the headquarters of Wydawnictwo
Literackie Publishers – one of the largest and most highly respected literary
publishers in Poland.
Founded in 1953, Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers has been inspiring
the most fascinating literary phenomena and publishing the finest names
in Polish and world literature for over half a century, including novelists,
poets, essayists, historians, and cultural scholars. We are, above all,
publishers of literature, particularly of Polish and foreign prose and
non-fiction – including important memoirs, history books, popular science
titles, and literature for young people.
Among the authors affiliated with WL are Polish and foreign Nobel Prize
winners, as well as outstanding, admired, and award-winning figures
from the worlds of culture, literature, and art. We would not, however,
be considered one of the most influential on the market if we did not invite
the most interesting young and promising writers to work with us, as well
as the leading names in popular literature.
My love affair with Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers began many years ago.
In 1957 they wanted to publish my novel, The Issa Valley, and in May they
received my manuscript. I admit that, because of my neglect, the signing of the
contract was postponed till August. Then the manuscript was readied for print.
Unfortunately, on 14 December the printing was halted “following discussions
at the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party Publishing
Commission, owing to the general political activities of the author.” Nonetheless,
I recall with gratitude that the entire fee for the print run of 10,000 copies was
paid to my family. The publishing house returned to The Issa Valley after
I received the Nobel Prize, and its first Polish publication was in 1981. I clearly
had a great deal of sentiment for them, given that they issued my book of poetry
entitled A Hymn of Pearl in 1983, and in 1984, a two-volume edition of my
collected poems. I entrusted the publication of my collected works to two Krakow
publishers, Wydawnictwo Literackie and Znak. This clearly shows the esteem
I hold for the team at Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers.
– Czesław Miłosz
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Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers is the only publishing house in Poland
capable of such enormous and prestigious undertakings as the collected
works of Stanisław Brzozowski, Witold Gombrowicz, Czesław Miłosz,
and Antoni Kępiński, a thirty-four volume publication of the works
of Stanisław Lem, the publication of the monumental collection of quotes
entitled Winged Words, edited by Henryk Markiewicz and Andrzej
Romanowski, the laborious preparation of a fifteen-volume scholarly edition
of the works of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, and the publication of Sławomir
Mrożek’s diaries and correspondence.
We pride ourselves on a record number of awards and nominations gained
for our authors and for the publishing house itself – we publish books
by winners of the Nike Literary Award, the Kościelski Award, the Janusz
Zajdel Polish Fandom Award, the K. Wyka Award, the Polityka Passport,
the Literatura na Świecie Award, the Gdynia Literary Award, and many others.
Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers is one of the first in Poland to have
begun selling books in the increasingly popular medium of electronic
publishing, in e-book and audio book formats. These new spaces for fine
literature are a great opportunity for authors and readers both – to our
mind, it is worth using the latest technologies to get books out to as many
diverse readers as possible!
My relationship with Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers is affectionate,
bilateral, deep, extracurricular, fruitful, inspiring, interpersonal, long-term,
multifaceted, precise, subtle, valuable, and vivacious. Because I do not know
which term is the most important here, I have listed them all, in alphabetical
order. For the good of future authors, I hope that Wydawnictwo Literackie carries
on for another hundred years.
– Wisława Szymborska
Wydawnictwo Literackie Publishers means brilliant writers, the foremost
figures in culture, and inspiring personalities.
PERSONALITIES
Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz, Father Joachim Badeni,
Stanisław Barańczak, Władysław Bartoszewski, Zygmunt Bauman,
Jan Błoński, Andrzej Bobkowski, Zbigniew Brzeziński, Karl Dedecius,
Michał Głowiński, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Józefa Hennelowa,
Maria Janion, Stanisław Lem, Henryk Markiewicz, Sławomir Mrożek,
Maria Orwid, Wojciech Pszoniak, Tadeusz Różewicz, Tomasz Stańko,
Jerzy Stuhr, Dorota Sumińska, Jan Józef Szczepański, Hanna Świda-Ziemba,
Jan Twardowski, Karol Wojtyła, Adam Zamoyski, Antonina Żabińska
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POLISH PROSE WRITERS
Janusz Anderman, Jacek Dukaj, Jerzy Franczak, Anna Janko,
Ignacy Karpowicz, Włodzimierz Kowalewski, Zbigniew Kruszyński,
Mikołaj Łoziński, Magdalena Miecznicka, Łukasz Orbitowski,
Kazimierz Orłoś, Jerzy Pilch, Marian Pilot, Jerzy Sosnowski, Olga Tokarczuk,
Szczepan Twardoch
ESSAYISTS, NON-FICTION WRITERS
Przemysław Czapliński, Tomasz Fiałkowski, Aleksander Fiut,
Tomasz Grzywaczewski, Jerzy Jarzębski, Michał Paweł Markowski,
Tadeusz Nyczek, Marian Stala, Jadwiga Staniszkis, Agata Tuszyńska,
Teresa Walas, Barbara Włodarczyk, Ewa Woydyłło
STARS OF POPULAR LITERATURE
Katarzyna Grochola, Marta Fox, Grzegorz Kasdepke, Katarzyna Krenz,
Roma Ligocka, Katarzyna Michalak, Jerzy Niemczuk, Katarzyna T. Nowak,
Agnieszka Pilaszewska, Dorota Terakowska, Janusz L. Wiśniewski
HISTORIANS
Andrzej Andrusiewicz, Henryk Batowski, Czesław Brzoza, Andrzej Chwalba,
Henryk Ćwięk, Niall Ferguson, Max Hastings, Ryszard Kaczmarek, Kazimierz
Krajewski, Jan M. Małecki, Mariusz Markiewicz, Grzegorz Motyka, Andrzej
Nowak, Andrzej Paczkowski, Artur Patek, Andrzej Pepłoński, Andrzej
Przewoźnik, Anna Reid, Jan Rydel, Douglas Smith, Andrzej Leon Sowa,
Stanisław Szczur, Ryszard Terlecki, Janusz Węc, Adam Zamoyski
POETS
Julia Hartwig, Zbigniew Herbert, Urszula Kozioł, Ewa Lipska,
Piotr Matywiecki, Jarosław Mikołajewski, Ewa E. Nowakowska,
Czesław Miłosz, Jolanta Stefko, Tadeusz Różewicz, Wisława Szymborska,
Halina Poświatowska, Piotr Szewc, Janusz Szuber, Jan Sztaudynger,
Adam Zagajewski
FOREIGN WRITERS
Margaret Atwood, John Banville, John D. Barrow, Jessie Barton, Walter
Benjamin, Hans Georg Berg, Thomas Bernhard, Jorge Luis Borges, Michael
Brooks, Andrea Camilleri, Emmanuel Carrere, Eleanor Catton, Julia Child, Lars
Saabye Christensen, Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Annie Dillard, Robin Dunbar,
Joel Egloff, T.S. Eliot, Anne Enright, Hans Magnus Enzensbergera,
Oriana Fallaci, Niall Ferguson, Richard Flanagan, George Friedman, Max
Frisch, Anna Gavalda, William Golding, Yaa Gyasi, Sophie Hannah, Tim
Harford, Marlon James, Paul Kalanithi, Sue Monk Kidd, Karl Ove Knausgärd,
Hedi Kaddour, Eka Kurniawan, Maylis de Kerangal, Asa Larsson, Doris
Lessing, Primo Levi, Jonathan Littell, Maja Lunde, Armistead Maupin, Cormac
McCarthy, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Alice Munro, Amelie Nothomb, Chigozie
Obioma, Orhan Pamuk, Wiktor Pielewin, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Pynchon, Atiq
Rahimi, Tom Reiss, Philip Roth, Steve Sem -Sandberg, Philippe Segur, Elif
Shafak, Morten Stroksnes, Ian Stewart, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gonçalo M.
7 Tavares, Jurgen Thorvald, Venedict Yerofeyev, Mika Waltari, Virginia Woolf
FICTION
Gaja Grzegorzewska
Gaja Grzegorzewska (b. 1980) – a writer known for her brave, modern, and
dark detective novels, the author of The Concrete Palace (2014), acclaimed by
critics and readers both, the first part of an urban detective trilogy. She is the
author of a series of detective novels with Julia Dobrowolska in the main role:
The Reaper (2006), The Night from Thursday to Sunday (2007), The Drowned Woman
(2010), and The Grave (2012), published with the EMG publishers. She finished
a degree in film studies at the Jagiellonian University. When she made her
debut in 2006, she was declared the youngest and most promising Polish
author of detective novels. Her following novels were praised with increasing
enthusiasm. In 2011 she received the prestigious High Caliber Award for
The Drowned Woman, declared the year’s best detective novel. The Grave brought
Author photograph
her many glowing reviews, in which her literary talent was much admired.
© Anna Ciupryk
As a lover of detective novels, she also writes opinion pieces for The Detective
Site. She is trained in capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. She lives in Krakow.
THE SERIES FEATURING JULIA DOBROWOLSKA
1. The Reaper (2006)
Private detective Julia Dobrowolska, a killer blonde with a scar, arrives at the
town of Bułkowice to hunt down the murderer of a girl found decapitated in
a corn field. This is the first important job of her professional career. But Julia is
the personification of cool and self-confidence, even if everyone around her is
sure that a woman is ill suited for the profession. Her investigation is hampered
by a ruthless and ambitious journalist who is making a television program
about the murderer, and a small-town policeman with a mysterious past. Julia
also has to deal with the silence and reluctance of the locals. She soon discovers
that this seemingly idyllic town hides several terrifying secrets. Nor does she
even suspect the proximity of the person the media calls the Reaper…
2. The Night from Thursday to Sunday (2007)
Private detective Julia Dobrowolska is hot on the trail of a ruthless killer in
an exclusive Krakow nightclub. Julia is beginning to work as a television
detective in a program run by investigative reporter Wiktor Bergen. However,
she is sick of being the gorgeous blonde whose job is to get television ratings
up. She decides to quit. And then her sister is entangled in a bold murder
committed in a small, labyrinthine Krakow club. Seeking to help her, Julia has to
keep working with Wiktor, and also with a policeman whose path she has once
crossed before.
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