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Wojciech Tochman

Born 1969 · Poland

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Nike 2003 · Shortlist

    Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia

    Jakbyś kamień jadła

    Wojciech Tochman · 33 when first published

    Nonfiction · 103 pages · War

    AI-generated summary:After the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, women who survived search for their missing men so that they can bury and mourn them, helped by a Polish forensic anthropologist.

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    Nike 2001 · Shortlist

    Schodów się nie pali

    Title translated by AI:“Stairs Don't Burn”

    Wojciech Tochman · 31 when first published

    Nonfiction · 209 pages

    AI-generated summary:Eleven true stories from Poland at the end of the 1990s about tangled lives, love and sacrifice, among them an adopted man who, after thirty years, meets the twin brother he never knew he had.