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House Of Day, House Of Night
''House of Day, House of Night'' ( pl, Dom dzienny, dom nocny) is a novel by Olga Tokarczuk, published by Wydawnictwo Ruta in 1998. Synopsis Although nominally a novel, ''House of Day, House of Night'' is rather a patchwork of loosely connected disparate stories, sketches, and essays about life past and present in the author's adopted home of Krajanów, a Polish village in the Sudetes near the Polish-Czech border. While some have labeled the novel Tokarczuk's most "difficult" piece, at least for those unfamiliar with Central European history, it was her first book to be published in English. Publication ''Dom dzienny, dom nocny'' was first published by Tokarczuk's independent publishing company Wydawnictwo Ruta in 1998. In 1999, the book sold 40,000 copies, which placed it sixth overall among the year's bestsellers written by Polish authors. In late 2000, Bertelsmann published the novel on the Internet. For this reason, ''Dom dzienny, dom nocny'' became the first novel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland; in 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life". For her novel ''Flights'', Tokarczuk has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize (translated by Jennifer Croft). Her works include '' Primeval and Other Times'', ''Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'', and ''The Books of Jacob''. Tokarczuk is noted for the mythical tone of her writing. A clinical psychologist from the University of Warsaw, she has published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works. For ''Flights'' and ''The Books of Jacob'', she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinga Dunin
Kinga Maria Dunin-Horkawicz (born 1954 in Łódź) is a Polish writer, feminist, and sociologist. Life She is a columnist for the ''Wysokie Obcasy'' (women's extra of the ''Gazeta Wyborcza'') and academic teacher at the Medical University of Warsaw. Before 1989 she was active in the democratic opposition ( KOR and samizdat among others). Member of the New Left intellectual milieu Krytyka Polityczna and of the Polish Greens 2004. (in Polish) Books Sociology * 1991: ''Cudze problemy. Analiza dyskursu publicznego w Polsce'' (Others' Problems: an Analysis of Polish Public Discourse; coauthor) * 2004: ''Czytając Polskę. Literatura polska po roku 1989 wobec dylematów nowoczesności'' (Reading Poland: Polish post-1989 Literature and the Dilemmas of Modernity) Feminism * 1996: ''Tao gospodyni domowej'' (Tao o ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Polish Novels
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
