Feature Jacek Dukaj


Sci-fi author Jacek Dukaj confesses to being slightly miffed to be among the Polish author contingent at this year’s fair, he tells


Tom Tivnan, and his views concerning the future of the writen word are not exactly on message either...


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ACEK DUKAJ ADMITS to being somewhat flummoxed as to why he has been chosen to be among the Polish writers brought over to this year’s London Book


Fair as part the Polish Book Council/British Council- curated Market Focus cultural programme. Not that he doesn’t have the chops to be considered among Poland’s literary elite. Dukaj is commonly viewed by critics as the country’s greatest living science-fiction writer and he is certainly its most lauded: he has writen 10 novels and an astonishing five of them have won the Janusz A Zajdel Award—Poland’s Arthur C Clarke equiv- alent. (Several other authors have won the prize twice, including Thursday’s LBF Cross Media Author of the Day, Andrzej Sapkowski). In 2008, he was shortlisted for Poland’s most prestigious literary prize, the Nike Award—a rarit for a SFF author. But “being part of some strange government culture


20 15th March 2017


Photography: Krzysztof Dubiel


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