Authors

cultural anthropologist; holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Art at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Author of Zaraza: Mitologia dżumy, cholery i AIDS, Współczesna Biblia Pauperum: Szkice o wideo i kulturze popularnej, Błazen: Maski i metafory, Fałszerze pieprzu: Historia rodzinna, and Pusty las (2019). Editor of several collections of essays, including Nostalgia: Eseje o tęsknocie za komunizmem, Znikająca Europa (with Katharina Raabe), Jako dowód i wyraz przyjaźni: Reportaże o Pałacu Kultury (with Magdalena Budzińska), Przecież ich nie zostawię. O żydowskich opiekunkach w czasie wojny (with Magdalena Kicińska), and Kwestia charakteru. Bojowniczki z getta warszawskiego (with Sylwia Chutnik). Since 1996, Director of the Czarne publishing house. Her book Fałszerze pieprzu has received the Maria and Łukasz Hirszowicz Prize, the Literature Prize of the City of Radom, and the Jerzy Turowicz Prize. The author has also been recognized by the Polcul Foundation for social and publishing activity and for promoting reading. She has also been nominated for the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize (2017), the Nike Prize for Literature, the Śląski Wawrzyn Literacki Prize, and the Angelus Central-European Literary Prize. She was born in Warsaw, lives in Beskid Niski. Contact via the editor. Email: tekstualia@o2.pl