ANDRZEJ STASIUK has received numerous awards for his work, including the NIKE, Poland’s most prestigious literary prize, for his collection of essays On the Road to Babadag. His novelNinewas published in English to great acclaim in 2007.

BILL JOHNSTON is the leading translator of Polish literature in the United States. His translation of Tadeusz Różewicz’s new poems won the 2008 Found in Translation Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award.