Recommended new books by Polish authors in English translation 2013

Marek Krajewski, Poland\'s featured author at BookExpo America, and Zygmunt Miloszewski - our guest at the New Literature from Europe festival in 2011, are leading the Polish crime wave with Krajewski\'s pre-WWII Breslau cycle featuring Inspector Eberhard Mock, and the second novel in Miloszewski\'s historically and politically engaged Teodor Szacki series.

Northern Illinois University Press has brought two landmarks of the nineteenth-century Polish novel by women writers into print in excellent new translations by Ursula Phillips - Maria (Czartoryska) Wirtemberska\'s novel, Malvina: Or the Heart\'s Intuition, and the transgressive proto-feminist spiritual novel by Narcyza Zmichowska, The Heathen.

Jacek Dehnel offers a novel inspired by the life and work of the Spanish painter, Francisco Goya, and Pawel Huelle\'s powerful storytelling is highlighted in a new collection of works permeated with the consciousness that Huelle associates with life on Poland\'s Baltic coast.

With his second book in English translation and a third on the way in August 2013, Tomasz Rozycki is truly coming into his own as Polish poet of international significance, following in the tradition set by Milosz, Herbert, Szymborska, and Zagajewski.

In advance of the Jan Karski centennial in 2014, Georgetown University Press is out with a new edition of his postwar memoir, telling of his role as the courier for the Polish underground who attempted to warn the Allies in 1942 of German atrocities being committed in Poland. One of America\'s most prestigious literary publishers, Alfred A. Knopf, also released our PEN World Voices guest, Agata Tuszynska\'s Vera Gran: The Accused, the tale of a singer in the Warsaw ghetto, accused of collaboration after the war that reveals how many questions still remain as we approach the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

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