Jerzy Franczak

Prose writer, essayist, poet, and columnist. He has worked, among other positions, as a television and radio journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of the literary and arts magazine “Nowy Wiek”. For several years he hosted the programme on new publications, “Czytelnia”, for TVP Kultura. He has also published his own collections of short stories “Trzy historye” (Three Storys, 2001), “Szmermel” (Squib, 2004) and “Algi, kalki, zębatki” (Algae, Calques, and Cogs, 2004). He is also the author of a collection of essays, “Grawitacje” (Gravitations, 2007) and the dissertations on contemporary literature: “Rzecz o nierzeczywistości” (Something about Unreality, 2002), “Poszukiwanie realności. Światopogląd polskiej prozy modernistycznej” (The Search for Reality. The Polish World View and Modernist Prose, 2007). His works also include several novels: “Przymierzalnia” (The Changing Room, 2008), “Nieludzka komedia” (The Inhuman Comedy, 2009), and “Da capo” (2010). His writings have been translated into Italian, French, German, English, Slovenian, Slovakian, and other languages. He works with “Twórczość”, “HA!art”, and “Tygodnik Powszechny”.

At the Second Joseph Conrad International Literature Festival he will host the meeting with Jean Hatzfeld, the author of “The Antelope Strategy” on 4 November (Thursday) at 6:00 p.m. at Klub Pod Jaszczurami.