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Megan Thomas Author & Translator

Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz was born in 1898 and began his writing career as a journalist. Kariera Nikodema Dyzma  appeared serially in 1930–31 to great acclaim, establishing his reputation as a novelist. He published prolifically until his death in 1939.

Ewa Malachpwska-Pasek is Ladislav Matejka Collegiate Lecturer in Polish and Czech Studies at the University of Michigan.

Megan Thomas is, with Ewa Malachowska-Pasek, the translator of Zofia Nalkowska’s Romance of Teresa Hennert.

Benjamin Paloff is the author of Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe, also published by Northwestern University Press, and is an associate professor at the University of Michigan.