Explaining Mountains to a Baby

The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,I regularly have nightmares. At least once a week, I have some sort of upsetting adventure in my sleep. Monsters feature, murderers too. Cannibalism, radioactive meltdowns, zo...

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Jul 04, 2024
Romance at the End of WWII

The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week I've translated a story about a girlfriend my father had during WWII. She made quite an impression on him.---A clashing of worlds Bush House, former home of the BBC World...

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Jun 20, 2024
A Fairy Tale about a Happy Man

The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,What with my grandfather Jerzy Żuławski's 150th anniversary this year, I thought I'd translate something of his. It's the start of a short story he wrote called A Fairy Tale about...

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Jun 06, 2024
Israel's First War in 3000 Years

The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Moving away from all the drinking and sex that you're used to reading about in this newsletter, I thought I'd translate something less controversial...Yep, my father's thoughts on...

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May 23, 2024
The Reality of Threesomes

The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,My father was a womaniser throughout his life.Once I realised, as a teenager, that he had had countless lovers and carried on a polyamorous (some would just say adulterous) persona...

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May 09, 2024
A Drunken Fight with a Waiter, 1930

The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week I've translated another alcohol-fuelled story from my father Marek's youth.Much like in the last drunken episode I translated, about the last NYE before WWII, he used min...

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Apr 25, 2024
Always Look on The Bright Side of Death

The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week, two translations for you. ---Always Look on The Bright Side of DeathThese last two weeks mark the anniversaries of both my father Marek's birth and death (April 13th 190...

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Apr 11, 2024
A New Website & A Mini-Doc

The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,I'm launching a new website this week. More on that at the end.Elsewhere, the Jacek & Hanna Żuławski exhibition at the Municipal Gallery BWA in Bydgoszcz comes to an end tomorr...

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Mar 28, 2024
Eating Like Hitler

The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,The translation I sent out last issue about the Jerzy Żuławski news is now on the Translating Marek blog.While adding it there, I had the sudden realisation that I recently passed...

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Mar 14, 2024
New Music for an Old Man

The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Last week, it was announced that my grandfather Jerzy Żuławski would be getting some new music composed in honour of his 150th anniversary this year. There are also going to be som...

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Feb 29, 2024