Born 1989 · Poland
Nike 2026 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Birthday”
Weronika Murek · 36 when first published
Novel · 252 pages
AI-generated summary:Jaga Babażyna, an ageing actress or perhaps a director staging a play of terror, cannot tell which role she plays in her own life, nor whether life is playing with her.
Nike 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Growing Southern Plants by the Michurin Method”
Weronika Murek · 26 when first published
Short stories · 139 pages · Speculative, Satire
AI-generated summary:Stories balanced between waking and dreaming, life and death: a chestnut vendor and a cosmonaut, General Sikorski's coffin, a half-deaf Virgin Mary knitting socks for Jesus by the light of the television.