Magdalena Tulli

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Magdalena Tulli
File:Magdalena Tulli 2015.jpg
Tulli in 2015
Born
Maddalena Flavia Tulli

(1955-10-20) 20 October 1955 (age 70)
Warsaw, Poland
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Occupationswriter, translator
WorksSny i kamienie (1995)
Kontroler snów (2007)
Szum (2014)

Magdalena Tulli (born Maddalena Flavia Tulli; 20 October 1955 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish novelist and translator, one of Poland's leading writers.[1]

Life and career

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Tulli has an Italian father and a Polish-Jewish mother, and grew up partially in Italy.[2] She graduated from high school in 1974 in Warsaw and obtained a Master's degree in biology at the University of Warsaw in 1979. She then worked six months at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station. In 1983, she earned a PhD at the Institute of Biology and Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[3]

Tulli made her literary debut in 1995 with the prose poem Sny i kamienie.[4] She is a member of the Polish Writers' Association. Her works have been translated into many languages. In 2012, she won the Gdynia Literary Prize for her book Włoskie szpilki ("Italian High Heels").[2] In the same year, her novel In Red, translated by Bill Johnston, was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.[5] She received five nominations for the Nike Award - Poland's most prominent literary prize. Her style has been characterized as postmodern and metafictional.[2]

She translated a number of books including Marcel Proust's La Fugitive, Italo Calvino's The Watcher and Fleur Jaeggy's La paura del cielo.[2]

Reception

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In Red has been reviewed by Kirsten Lodge for the Slavic and East European Journal.[6]

Works

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  • Sny i kamienie 1995. (Dreams and Stones, Archipelago Books 2004).
  • W czerwieni 1998. (In red, Archipelago Books 2011).
  • Tryby 2003. (Moving Parts, Archipelago Books 2005).
  • Skaza 2006. (Flaw, Archipelago Books 2007)[7]
  • Kontroler snów 2007, (Wydawnictwo Nisza)
  • Włoskie szpilki 2011, (Wydawnictwo Nisza)[8]
  • Szum, 2014 (Wydawnictwo Znak)[9]
  • Ten i tamten las, 2017 (Wydawnictwo Wilk i Król)
  • Jaka piękna iluzja. W rozmowie z Justyną Dąbrowską, 2017 (Wydawnictwo "Znak")

See also

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References

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  1. ^ The Kosciusko Foundation Archived 2004-05-03 at archive.today.
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  7. ^ Magdalena Tulli, Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish), September 4, 2007
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