Lit in Translation

Michał Witkowski

Born 1975 · Poland

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Nike 2024 · Shortlist

    Wiara. Autobiografia

    Title translated by AI:“Faith: An Autobiography”

    Michał Witkowski · 48 when first published

    Nonfiction · 496 pages · Autofiction, Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:The first part of a novelist's autobiography: a childhood in communist Poland, a boy who believed in magic, God and everything else, a great tree in the courtyard at the centre of his world.

  • In English

    Nike 2006 · Shortlist

    Lovetown

    Lubiewo

    Michał Witkowski · 30 when first published

    Novel

    AI-generated summary:In Wrocław, two ageing gay men, Patrycja and Lukrecja, outdo each other with stories of the city's cruising grounds in the communist 1970s and 1980s; then the narrator heads for a nudist beach on the Baltic.