Jacek Dukaj Author

Jacek Dukaj (b. 1974) read his first Stanislaw Lem novel at the age of six, published his first short story at the age of 14 and has gone on to publish six novels, five novellas and three short story collections. He is a six-time winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, a four-time winner of the Jerzy Zulawski Award and a winner of a European Literary Award and a Koscielski Award. A short animated movie by Tomasz Baginski based on this short story Katedra (The Cathedral) was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003. Dukaj lives in Cracow. Ursula Phillips is an award-winning British translator of Polish literary and academic works and a writer on Polish literary history with background in both Russian and Polish Studies and a doctorate in Polish 19th-century literature; she has contributed to and co-edited five volumes of critical essays on aspects of Polish literature. She has translated 19th-century and early 20th-century women authors Maria Wirtemberska, Narcyza Zmichowska, Zofia Nalkowska, Pola Gojawiczynska and Maria Kuncewiczowa, as well as contemporaries Wieslaw Mysliwski, Agnieszka Taborska and Piotr Pazinski. She is an Honorary Research Fellow of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.