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Fado

Original Polish title: Fado, published in 2006 by Czarne
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Slovenia (Cankarjeva zaloĹľba)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Dalkey Archive), France (Christian Bourgois), Romania (RAO), Ukraine (Grani-T)


Fado / Fado
Original Polish title: Fado, published in 2006 by Czarne
»In this delightful collection of essays – by turns wry and reflective, wistful and witty – contemporary Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk turns his attention to the villages and small towns of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Albania, and of course his native Poland.


Stasiuk travels to places no tourist would think of visiting, and in his characteristically lyrical prose, lays out his own unique and challenging perspective on the fascinating, unknown heart of Central Europe. He reminds...

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»In this delightful collection of essays – by turns wry and reflective, wistful and witty – contemporary Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk turns his attention to the villages and small towns of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Albania, and of course his native Poland.


Stasiuk travels to places no tourist would think of visiting, and in his characteristically lyrical prose, lays out his own unique and challenging perspective on the fascinating, unknown heart of Central Europe. He reminds us of the area's extraordinarily rich cultural and ethnic makeup, explores its literature, and shows how its history is inscribed permanently in its landscapes. Above all, he describes with fascination how past, present, and future co-exist and intertwine along the highways and back roads of the region.« (book description from the English edition by Dalkey Archive Press)

2008, 158 pages
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Andrzej Stasiuk, born in Warsaw in 1960, has been living in the Beskides since 1986. He writes poems, stories, novels, also works as a journalist and scriptwriter and together with his wife Monika Sznajderman directs the publishing house Czarne located in Wolowiec. He has received numerous literary awards, among them the Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize for Literature (2002), the Nike Prize (Poland, 2005) for JadÄ…c do Babadag, the Adalbert Stifter Prize (2005), the Vilenica Prize and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2016).

Andrzej Stasiuk, born in Warsaw in 1960, has been living in the Beskides since 1986. He writes poems, stories, novels, also works as a...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Crossing
Year of Publication: 2023
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2023
It’s June of 1941, a few days before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. In a village along the Bug River, German soldiers have taken up quarters, while Polish partisans are hiding out...
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Spain (Acantilado), France (Actes Sud), Sweden (Ersatz), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Cankarjeva ZaloĹľba)

The Beskid Chronicles
Year of Publication: 2020
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2020
Andrzej Stasiuk is an author who often seeks out the great yonder in his writing. In The Beskid Chronicles, though, he turns his inimitable eye to his homeland of Poland, a country undergoing rapid and often subtle transformations. The book gathers together feature articles and poetic miniatures written by Stasiuk between 2013 and 2018 for the Polish weekly paper Tygodnik...
A Short Book about Dying
Year of Publication: 2018
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2018
Andrzej Stasiuk, famous for the artfulness with which he describes deteriorating places and disappearing landscapes, tells four stories about death and departure. There is Augustyn, his writer...
Rights sold to:

 Spain (Acantilado), France (Actes Sud),​​​​​​​ Italy (Atmosphere Libri), Hungary (Magveto),

The East
Year of Publication: 2017
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2017
Andrzej Stasiuk’s big book about the »East«. The sum of his travels and writings – recorded in one epic stream and told through captivating episodes and epiphanies. Stasiuk...
Rights sold to:

France (Actes Sud), Sweden (Ersatz), Czech Republic (Kniha Zlin, s. r. o), Slovakia (Slovart), Croatia (Fraktura), Ukraine (Old Lion),

Taksim
Year of Publication: 2016
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2016
WĹ‚adek and Pawel are rattling around the markets and bazaars of southern Europe in their old, clapped-out delivery van. But their second-hand clothes from “Paris-London-New York” are no...
Rights sold to:

Spain (Acantilado), France (Actes Sud), Sweden (Ersatz), Norway (Aschehoug), Slovakia (Slovart), Hungary (Magveto), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Studentska Zalozba Beletrina)

White Raven
Year of Publication: 2016
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2016
Five old school friends in post-communist Warsaw. Now all fathers in their early thirties, they head off into the unknown. Sick of their everyday lives, they let the melancholic and charismatic Wasyl convince them to go on an adventure that takes them into the wild, sparsely populated region along the Polish-Slovakian border. When one of them assaults a custom’s officer, their winter foray...
There Are No Expressways on Golden Roads
Year of Publication: 2015
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2015
Nobody is more at home on the road than the Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk. The fifty prose vignettes gathered in this collection narrate journeys through sparsely populated regions on the Polish-Ukrainian border, the steppes of Siberia, and the vast, open spaces of China and Mongolia.

A declaration of love for untrodden paths and neglected regions, wandering through memories and dreams...
Post-Scriptum Diary
Year of Publication: 2013
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2013
Andrzej Stasiuk has never written about Poland and the West with the same wrath as he does here, in the wake of his most recent travels through the Balkans. Having returned from countries with “real personalities”, where minarets loom over minefields and burial grounds, Stasiuk bristles about some of the contradictions in his home country: dreaming of martyrdom but then choosing...
Winter
Year of Publication: 2009
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2009
»You’re not going to end up on the junkheap«, says Grzesiek to his orange Syrena sedan as he drives along the Polish-Slovakian border with a bootful of copper wiring. »I’ll find someone for you. Maybe a pensioner. He’ll look after you, and the two of you can grow old together.«

Like in Stasiuk’s famous Galician Stories,...
Dojczland
Year of Publication: 2008
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2008
»Holding back tears at the sight of a Mercedes-Benz factory. Boarding the silver bullet of the intercity train, autumn in your heart. Strolling through Berlin's Olympic Stadium, a...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (Christian Bourgois), Romania (RAO)

On the Road to Babadag
Year of Publication: 2005
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2005
Herds of cows on a stretch of rail tracks beyond Oradea, sheep on a suburban street in Satu Mare, a white horse grazing in the middle of Suceava – the dirtiest, remotest, most god-forsaken part of...
Rights sold to:

USA (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Spanish world rights (Quaderns Crema/El Acantilado), Chinese simplex rights (Guangdong Flower City Publishing House), Sweden (Ersatz), Slovakia (Absynt), Turkey (Livera)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: UK (Harvill Secker), Russia (NLO), France (Christian Bourgois), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (De Geus), Finland (Like), Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (RAO), Lithuania (Kitos Knygos), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Dereta), Slovenia (Beletrina), Albania (Mesonjetorja)

Cardboard Airplane
Year of Publication: 2004
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2004

At the beginning, there is the longing of a child to be simultaneously here and elsewhere. It is appeased in traveling and reading.


Impressions from Central Europe, a metaphor of the ›variety of worlds‹: a medial cosmos here, the disposability of each and every possible information, a fallen into decay sanatorium there, a ›galician magic...
The Walls of Hebron
Year of Publication: 2003
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2003
Stasiuk's legendary debut, and new editions have been repeatedly brought out in 1992 in Poland, continues to irritate and fascinated readers. To describe the violent reality of everyday prison life the author summed up all his powers of poetic exaggeration such as was to also be the hallmark of his later writings.

In this work, Stasiuk looks at the world with an unflinching and...
Galician Tales
Year of Publication: 2002
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2002
If you enjoyed Dukla you'll be equally enthusiastic about Galician Tales. Because Stasiuk's literary landscape, south-east Poland, the forgotten province in the years following...
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Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Serbia (Heliks), Ukraine (Old Lion)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (Christian Bourgois), Netherlands (De Geus), Slovakia (Slovart), Bulgaria (Paradox), Slovenia (Cankarjeva Zalozba), India (Hindi; Rajkamal Prakashan)

How I Became a Writer
Year of Publication: 2001
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2001
Stasiuk would have preferred to be a rock star. In this »Bildungsroman«, penned in less than two weeks he lets us know why that career never came to...
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France (Actes Sud), Hungary (Poket), Ukraine (Discursus)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Korea (Saemulgyul), Czech Republic (Prostor), Romania (Paralela)

Dukla
Year of Publication: 2000
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2000
The World Behind Dukla was the literary highlight of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2000: no other book was as discussed as widely and in such detail, or greeted so enthusiastically....
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English world rights (Dalkey Archive), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Slovenia (Beletrina), Turkey (Livera)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Russia (NLO), France (Christian Bourgois), Italy (Bompiani), Sweden (print rights; Norstedts), Sweden (digital rights; Ersatz), Norway (Aschehoug), Slovakia (Baum), Hungary (Magvetö)

My Europe
Year of Publication: 2000
Juri Andruchowytsch, Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2000
In these »two essays on the strangest part of the world«, Yuri Andrukhovych and Andrzej Stasiuk offer a stereoscopic portrait of central Europe. On foot and by car, they travelled...
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Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (print edition Mimesis / digital edition GoWare), Hungary (Kijarat), Bulgaria (Lektura), Romania (Polirom)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Czech Republic (Periplum), Croatia (Fraktura)

Nine
Year of Publication: 1999
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 1999
Nine is an existential crime novel as well as a major work of art.


»Nine is a brilliant novel from one of Europe's finest writers. It tells...
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USA (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), UK (Harvill Secker), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Italy (Giunti), Amharic (Hohe)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Russia (Azbooka), France (Christian Bourgois), Netherlands (De Geus), Sweden (print rights: Norstedts; digital rights: Ersatz), Slovenia (Beletrina), Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (RAO), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Booka)


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