Magdalena Tulli

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]

Magdalena Tulli, 2015

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. 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.[4] 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]

Novels
  • 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)[5]
  • Kontroler snów 2007, (Wydawnictwo Nisza)
  • Włoskie szpilki 2011, (Wydawnictwo Nisza)
  • Szum, 2014 (Wydawnictwo Znak)

References
  1. The Kosciusko Foundation Archived 2004-05-03 at Archive.today.
  2. Gliński, Mikołaj (2012). "Magdalena Tulli". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
  3. Sęczek, Marlena (2018-04-22). "Magdalena TULLI". Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku (in Polish). Retrieved 2018-08-25.
  4. "2012 Best Translated Book Award Finalists: Fiction and Poetry". Three Percent. University of Rochester. 2012-04-10. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
  5. Magdalena Tulli, Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish), September 4, 2007


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