Born 1976 · Poland
Nike 2022 · Shortlist
Maciej Płaza · 45 when first published
Novel · 316 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In a Hasidic shtetl in Podolia at the start of the twentieth century, the golem of Jewish legend, a man-shaped being without a soul, comes to life among kabbalists and messianic hopes.
Nike 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Scamp”
Maciej Płaza · 39 when first published
Short stories · 348 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:In the 1980s, by the Vistula near Sandomierz, a boy the village calls a good-for-nothing lives with his father, an orchard keeper, tinkerer and atheist, and his mother, a living saint, and feels his life beginning.