The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories

This one-hundred year history of the Polish short story, an astonishing act of research and synthesis in itself, reveals the power of the literary imagination to overcome any national predicament – James Hopkins * The New World *
Magnificent… Though several Nobel prizes have spotlighted Polish literary achievements, only a small part of the rich repertory of Polish literature is known to the wider world in translation. The Penguin collection gives us a sense of how much we have missed * TLS *

Antonia Lloyd-Jones is an accomplished translator of contemporary Polish literature, with a diverse portfolio that includes novels, reportage, crime fiction, poetry, and children’s books. Her notable work includes the translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. Tokarczuk is also the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.

For a decade, Lloyd-Jones served as a mentor for the Emerging Translators’ Mentorship Programme and previously held the position of co-chair for the UK Translators Association.

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