Katarzyna Tubylewicz

Feature writer, writer specialist in culture and translator from Swedish. She cooperates with Gazeta Wyborcza, Dwutygodnik and Krytyka Polityczna. A novel Własne miejsca (Places of One's Own) from 2005 was her literary debut. Her book Rówieśniczki was published this April; it focuses on a difficult friendship between women, intolerance, racial and gender prejudice and power struggle. For a few years she lived in Sweden where she was a director of the Polish Institute in Stockholm and taught academic classes on contemporary Poland.

Photo by W. Rudzki