Poles are the largest national minority in Lithuania. Among them, several dozen people are involved in creating literature in Polish, and a dozen actively participate in literary life. Despite such a ...significant potential, the participation of this group in the development of Polish-Lithuanian literary relations was negligible until recently. Polish writers from Lithuania mainly participated in Polish literary life and published their works in Poland. They did not translate them into Lithuanian and did not participate in Lithuanian literary life. The text lists a few examples of the participation of Polish writers from Lithuania in creating literary contacts between Poland and Lithuania, as well as in translation and publishing activities in the field of Polish-Lithuanian literary cooperation. Only in recent years has the activity of Polish writers from Lithuania in this field increased significantly thanks to the involvement of the young literary generation.
Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by many of Poland's leading contemporary
novelists, including Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, Jacek Dehnel, Mariusz
Szczygieł, and Artur Domosławski. She ...has been a mentor for the Emerging
Translator Mentorship Program and co-chair of the UK Translators Association. In
2018 she was honored with Poland's Transatlantyk Award for the most outstanding
promoter of Polish literature abroad.
If you can't get enough Lem (and, honestly, who ever could?), check out MIT Press's lovely reissued editions of six Lem texts (four of which are science fiction-His Master's Voice, The Invincible, ...Return from the Stars, and Memoirs of a Space Traveler), which include new introductions and striking covers. Many of her novels, including House of Day, House of Night (Eng. 2003); Primeval and Other Times (Eng. 2010); and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead (Eng. 2019)-translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones-have been described as magical realist, weaving together myth, fairy tale, and fable to create stories that destabilize our comfortable assumptions about humanity's place in the natural world and in history. Jennifer Croft, Hazlitt, 2019), is a work of science fiction that explores theological questions of life and death, the psychology of saints, and the ethics of cloning.
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