BIO

Writer, poet, reporter. She is the author of biographies of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irena Krzywicka and Wiera Gran, as well as personal books „A Family History of Fear” and „Exercises of Loss”.

In recent years, she has published, among others, „Accused Vera Gran” (2010), „Schulz’s Bride” (2015), „Yamnikarium” (2016), „Personal Baggage”, „After March” (2018), „Mama Always Returns” (2020) transferred to the POLIN Museum stage, „Exercises in Loss”, and „After 15 Years (2021)”. In 2022, premiered „Juggler”, „Romain Gary” and the book of poems „Niesny”. In April 2023, „Black Bag” will be published by Osnova Publishing House on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

„The heroine of all my books is MEMORY. Vanishing worlds and departing people. I write them down so they don’t cease to exist. I believe in the saving power of words” says Tuszyńska.

She is the winner of the Ksawery Pruszyński Prize of the Polish PEN-Club for outstanding achievements in the field of reportage and non-fiction, and has been awarded the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture and the French Order of Literature and Art.

Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. As of March 2022, she is a columnist for the Polish edition of Vogue.

Photo: Mateusz Grzelak / Osnova