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Jacek Dehnel

Born 1980 · Poland

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Nike 2015 · Shortlist

    Matka Makryna

    Title translated by AI:“Mother Makryna”

    Jacek Dehnel · 34 when first published

    Novel · 398 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:The monologue of Makryna Mieczysławska, a nineteenth-century impostor who claimed to be the abbess of a Uniate convent tortured by the Russians, won fame across Europe and enthralled the Polish Romantics.

  • No English yet

    Nike 2010 · Shortlist

    Ekran kontrolny

    Title translated by AI:“Test Card”

    Jacek Dehnel · 29 when first published

    Poetry · 63 pages

    AI-generated summary:Poems that move from the sacred world of childhood to the profane one of adulthood, from a boy in a tartan cap in the 1980s to a gay website, Marlene Dietrich and skaters outside Saint-Denis.