Magdalena Tulli (born Maddalena Flavia Tulli; 20 October 1955 in

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, Poland) is a Polish novelist and translator, one of Poland's leading writers.

Life and career

Tulli has an Italian father and a Polish-Jewish mother, and grew up partially in Italy. She graduated from high school in 1974 in Warsaw and obtained a Master's degree in biology at the

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in 1979. She then worked six months at the

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. In 1983, she earned a PhD at the Institute of Biology and Zoology of the

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. Tulli made her literary debut in 1995 with the prose poem ''Sny i kamienie''. She is a member of the

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. Her works have been translated into many languages. In 2012, she won the

Gdynia Literary Prize Gdynia Literary Prize ( pl, Nagroda Literacka Gdynia) is a Polish literary prize, which is awarded annually to authors of the best books published in the previous year in the prose, poetry, essay and (since 2014) translation categories. It wa ...

for her book ''Włoskie szpilki'' ("Italian High Heels"). In the same year, her novel ''In Red'', translated by

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, was shortlisted for the

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. She received five nominations for the

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- Poland's most prominent literary prize. Her style has been characterized as

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and

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al. She translated a number of books including

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's '' La Fugitive'',

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's ''The Watcher'' and

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's ''La paura del cielo''.

Works

*''Sny i kamienie'' 1995. (''Dreams and Stones'',

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2004). *''W czerwieni'' 1998. (''In red'', Archipelago Books 2011). *''Tryby'' 2003. (''Moving Parts'', Archipelago Books 2005). *''Skaza'' 2006. (''Flaw'', Archipelago Books 2007)Magdalena Tulli
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'' (in Polish), September 4, 2007 *''Kontroler snów'' 2007, (Wydawnictwo ''Nisza'') *''Włoskie szpilki'' 2011, (Wydawnictwo ''Nisza'') *''Szum'', 2014 (Wydawnictwo ''Znak'') *''Ten i tamten las'', 2017 (Wydawnictwo ''Wilk i Król'') *''Jaka piękna iluzja. W rozmowie z Justyną Dąbrowską'', 2017 (Wydawnictwo "Znak")

References

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Life and career

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