Poland
Guest of the book fair
Acclaimed member of the Polish school of literary reportage, Szabłowski studied journalism and political science and worked at the Gazeta Wyborcza daily in 2006–2016. In his debut Zabójca z miasta moreli. Reportaże z Turcji (The Assassin from Apricot City: Stories from Turkey – 2010, published in Czech in Barbora Gregorová’s translation in 2016) he drew on his experiences from a one-year sojourn in Turkey. In 2014, his book Tańczące niedźwiedzie (The Dancing Bears) was published, a metaphor of how the societies in Central and Southern Europe have developed after the fall of the communist regimes. The book will be published in Czech in the coming months. In 2016, Szabłowski published the book Spraviedliwi zdrajcy. Sąsiedzi z Wołynia (The Just Traitors: The Volyn Neighbours, published in Czech in 2018 by Pant, translated by Josef Mlejnek). The book describes the events surrounding the Volyn massacre and the WWII ethnic cleansing of the Ukraine’s Polish population. The author’s latest book Jak nakarmić diktatora (Dictators’ Chef), about the chefs of Saddam Hussein or Fidel Castro, was published simultaneously in Poland and in the USA in 2019 to great acclaim and was awarded the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Award in June 2021. Book World marks its publication by the Dokořán and Jaroslava Jiskrová – Máj publishing houses, translated by Jarmila Horáková.
Photography: Ondřej Němec
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