FROM POLAND TO POLAND – MICHAŁ OLSZEWSKI
Michał Olszewski either travels all around Poland, or goes deep within, showing what is being hidden and denied. “Zapiski na biletach” portray Poland as a country that is unfinished, cracked, boiling with dangerous energy. In his book “Chwalcie łąki umajone” Olszewski builds a geographical and mental landscape of early 21st century. The author unveils provincialism as the core of our country – in the good and bad meaning of this word. In the recently published reportages “Najlepsze buty na świecie” (2014) Poland is presented as a double country: there are dramatic events taking place under the cover of the little stabilisation. This is the kind of Poland we wish to forget as soon as possible.
Michał Olszewski | Journalist, writer of prose. He used to write for the Cracow edition of “Gazeta Wyborcza,” cooperates with “Tygodnik Powszechny.” He writes mainly about Polish space and social changes after 1989. Received the Kapuściński Award, and the 2014 “Wawrzyn” literary prize of Warmia and Masuria for his reportage collection “Najlepsze buty na świecie.”