Born 1952 · Poland
Nike 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Many Demons”
Jerzy Pilch · 61 when first published
Novel · 478 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:In the 1950s, in a small Lutheran town in Cieszyn Silesia, the pastor's daughter Jula arrives with a Catholic fiancé, while her sister Ola has mysteriously vanished.
Nike 2007 · Shortlist
Moje pierwsze samobójstwo
Jerzy Pilch · 54 when first published
Short stories · 298 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Linked stories about a boy from Wisła raised in a strict Protestant home, from his first carefully rehearsed suicide attempt to his life as a lonely writer past fifty who drinks.
Nike 2001 · Winner
Pod Mocnym Aniołem
Jerzy Pilch · 48 when first published
Novel · 263 pages
AI-generated summary:Juruś, a writer and an alcoholic, keeps coming back to Dr Granada's ward for delirious drinkers, between binges and hopeless love affairs, among fellow patients whose stories are funny and terrible at once.