MAREK BIEŃCZYK (b. 1956, Poland) is the winner of NIKE Literary Award, the most prestigious award for Polish literature,. He is the author of fiction and essays, a historian of literature, and a translator from French (for books by Milan Kundera, Roland Barthes, Emil Cioran, and others). Bieńczyk is the author of two novels, Terminal (1994) and the award-winning Tworki (1999), and the essay collections: Dürer’s Eyes–On Romantic Melancholy (2002), Transparency (2007), and Face Book (2011, Nike Award). His works have been translated into English, French, Spanish, German, Russian and Bulgarian. He lives in Poland.
BENJAMIN PALOFF's books include the poetry collections And His Orchestra (2015) and The Politics (2011), both from Carnegie Mellon, and many translations from Polish, Czech, Russian, and Yiddish, including Marek Bieńczyk's Tworki and Transparency. Twice a fellow of the NEA, he is professor of comparative literature at the University of Michigan, where he is also director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
JOANNA CONCEJO (b. 1971, Poland) is an illustrator and artist, whose most recent collaboration, The Lost Soul, written by Olga Tokarczuk, who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. She moved to France in 1994, where she still lives and works. She is winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Award (Mention / Fiction), the prize Calabria Incantata Abracalabria Altomonte (Italy), and the Grand Prix /Best Book of the Year for graphic design by the Polish Section of IBBY (for Prince in a Pastry Shop). She works mainly for children's books. In 2008 appeared his first book , then follow other books in France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, South Korea, Poland.
