Born 1976 · Poland
Nike 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“People from the Sky”
Ignacy Karpowicz · 48 when first published
Novel · 340 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:In 1905, in Bieniakonie south of Vilnius, Kora, one of eight children, longs for adventure and for her twin brother Franciszek, who has gone away to school and will become Poland's most famous pilot.
Nike 2015 · Shortlist
Sońka
Ignacy Karpowicz · 38 when first published
Novel · 204 pages · War, Love, Historical
AI-generated summary:Igor, a successful theatre director stranded out of mobile range in a remote village, meets old Sońka by the road, whose life ended long ago in the war, and begins to turn her story into a play.
Nike 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Fishbones”
Ignacy Karpowicz · 37 when first published
Novel · 468 pages · Love, Satire
AI-generated summary:The cat Bury dies, and that is only the start: Maja accuses Szymon of an affair, Ninel, still Kuba to her mother, falls for Norbert, who has long loved Krzyś, whose relationship with Andrzej is in doubt.
Nike 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Balladinas and Romances”
Ignacy Karpowicz · 34 when first published
Novel · 574 pages · Satire, Speculative, Love
AI-generated summary:Things on Earth are going badly, coffee is running out and irons keep vanishing, so the old gods, from Aphrodite and Osiris to Jesus and Lucifer, come down to set things right, and they choose Poland.
Nike 2009 · Shortlist
Gesty
Ignacy Karpowicz · 32 when first published
Novel · 260 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Grzegorz, a forty-year-old theatre director, leaves his flat in Warsaw to visit his mortally ill mother in Białystok and finds how little they share.