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Wioletta Greg

Born 1974 · Poland

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Warwick Prize 2017 · Shortlist

    Swallowing Mercury

    Guguły

    Wioletta Greg · 40 when first published

    Short stories · 115 pages · Coming of age, Autofiction

    Translated by Eliza Marciniak

    AI-generated summary:Wiolka grows up in Hektary, a small village in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland in communist Poland, among school, beetle hunts, talks with her father, a mysterious seamstress and the wait for John Paul II's visit.

    Also: Nike 2015 shortlist