Born 1959 · Poland
Nike 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Empty Forest”
Monika Sznajderman · 60 when first published
Nonfiction · 239 pages · Historical, Nature
AI-generated summary:Living in Wołowiec, a village in the Beskid mountains, the author asks how a handful of people can fill the place of the eight hundred who once lived there and were swept away by history.
Nike 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Pepper Forgers: A Family History”
Monika Sznajderman · 57 when first published
Nonfiction · 280 pages · Family, Historical, War
AI-generated summary:An anthropologist reconstructs the lives of her two families, her father's Jewish relatives, most of them killed in the Holocaust, and her mother's Polish landed family, whose histories ran in parallel for centuries and never met.