Born 1936 · Poland
Warwick Prize 2021 · Shortlist
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Małgorzata Szejnert · 73 when first published
Nonfiction · 400 pages · Migration, Historical
Translated by Sean Gasper Bye
AI-generated summary:Ellis Island, the small island off New York through which millions of immigrants entered the United States, seen through the fates of the migrants and of the doctors, nurses, interpreters and officials who worked there.
Nike 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Turtle's House: Zanzibar”
Małgorzata Szejnert · 75 when first published
Nonfiction · 378 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:The history of Zanzibar from Sultan Said, who made the island the centre of a slave-trading empire in the nineteenth century, to today's tourist resort, told through the lives of the people and houses there.
Nike 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Black Garden”
Małgorzata Szejnert · 71 when first published
Nonfiction · 547 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:The history of Giszowiec, a miners' estate built in Upper Silesia in 1905 by the Giesche mining company, and of the families who lived there through a century of wars, uprisings and changes of state.