The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week, my father talks to his own painting... 🤷♂️ He wrote this short piece for the Warsaw Pen Club sometime in 1969. While translating it, it made me think that, like with m...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Recently, I'd been thinking about planning a trip to Egypt in the near future. I thought I'd randomly check my father's autobiography for mention of the country, and, lo and behold...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,I had to skip making the newsletter two weeks ago due to my trip to Japan (more about that later) but I'm back today with another translation from my father's autobiography. This w...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,In today's newsletter, a short translation from my father's autobiography about the one year anniversary of his brother Wawrzyniec's death. It was marked by a ceremony in Chamonix...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Poland's been in the news this week due to the possibility of the Ukrainian war spilling over, so I thought I'd find something about Ukraine in my father's autobiography. Below is...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week from my father's autobiography, a chance meeting with a homeless man. I hope you enjoy my translation of the story.---I used to run half-naked through the ancient Forest...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week I was at a yoga retreat with my family - which means a little bit of yoga but mostly messing around with kids. Being on the trip with a Translating Marek email to write,...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week, I've translated the story of how my father came to start working on a series of paintings all about Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh is the first heroic story in recorded history, a...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week, I've translated an episode from my father's memoirs about a visit to the Tatra Mountains. He spent most of his pre-pubescence in this region but this was about a visit j...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Firstly, I apologise for being absent - I was supposed to send the last newsletter on June 19th, but it somehow completely slipped my mind. I think it might be because I'm generall...
