An evening with Agata Tuszyńska, Mary Ellen Tyrmand and an exhibition of Ryszard Horowitz's photography in New York

The event will be moderated by David Goldfarb

May, 16th 2013, 7 PM

Consulate General of Poland
233 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016

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Agata Tuszyńska is one of Poland's most popular biographers and authors. Her books have been translated into more than ten languages, and she has been invited to represent Poland at the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in New York. Her most recent publication in Poland, Tyrmandowie. Romans amerykański (The Tyrmands: An American Romance) tells the American story of Leopold Tyrmand, the author of Zły (published in English as The Man With the White Eyes), a tale of postwar Warsaw, alongside his American wife - Mary Ellen Fox. Tuszynska is the author of Lost Landscapes: In Search of Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Jews of Poland (Wm. Morrow, 1998) and most recently in English translation, Vera Gran: The Accused (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), an inquiry into the mysterious life of a Warsaw Ghetto torch singer, the star of the Café Sztuka, haunted by accusations after the War of collaboration with the Germans.

Mary Ellen Tyrmand - graduated from Yale University in a field of the Hispanic studies. As a 23 years old she met her future husband, Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish novelist and editor. Tyrmand rose to prominence for his publication of anti-regime newspapers in Poland. In 1954, he wrote a diary, which he later edited and released in 1980 as "Dziennik 1954", it has been translated into English to appear in 2014 as "Diary 1954". The book, which gives a unique description of the daily life in Stalinist Poland, is now considered to be one of his greatest achievements. He emigrated to the United States in 1966, where he regularly published essays in American periodicals such as The New Yorker and The New York Times.

Ryszard Horowitz was born in Krakow, Poland on May 5th, 1939. Four months later the Nazi Germany had invaded his homeland and his entire family ended up being sent to a series of concentration camps. Horowitz is one of the youngest known survivors of Auschwitz. He studied at the High School of fine Arts and then went on the major in painting at the Academy of fine arts at his home city. In 1959, he finally achieved his ambition of emigrating to the United States and enrolled at New York famed Pratt Institute. After graduating he worked for a number of film and design companies and as an art director for Grey Advertising. He is recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography predating digital imagining.