Jacek Dukaj

Jacek Dukaj - novelist, essayist, critic, the most prominent contemporary Polish science fiction writer. He is the author of, among others, Black Oceans, Other Songs, Perfect Imperfection, Ice, The Vernacular, The Old Age of the Axolotl, Empire of the Clouds, Line of Resistance and numerous short stories - including The Cathedral, which was filmed by Tomek Baginski and nominated for an Oscar. He is the author of the essay-thriller After Writing, which shows humanity entering the post-writing era. Translator-interpreter of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel and Jerzy Żuławski awards, repeatedly nominated for the "Polityka" Passport, also for the Nike Literary Award and the Angelus Central European Literary Award. Winner of the Koscielski Prize, winner of the European Prize for Literature and the European Science Fiction Society. Based on the novel The Old Age of the Axolotl, Netflix produced the series Direction: Night. In 2022, he won the most important Czech literary award, Magnesia Litera, in the translated literature category for his novel Ice. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including English, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Hungarian.