The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,I'm travelling to a Spanish-speaking country in a few days, so I thought I'd check my father's autobiography for any traces of Spanish. It turns out my parents visited Spain in 197...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,My cousin Xawery Żuławski's new movie opens this weekend in Poland. Set in the 1960s, it's the true story of an Olympic boxer called Jerzy Kulej. It has more chance of commercial s...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,My family and I are sunning ourselves on a beach this week, but I managed to put together a short newsletter before leaving. Hooray for scheduling things in advance! 🤓Also, h...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Welcome to Autumn, the best season of the year. Great walking weather and no pollen messing it up. What's not to like?This week's translation from my father's autobiography is an e...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,I've been sick, and my kids have been sick, but my wife is a picture of loveliness even though she's been sick too. So I thought, why not translate something from my father's...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,I didn't see much of this year's Olympics.I did hear that some Christians watching the opening ceremony somehow mistook a Dionysian feast for The Last Supper. And that the River Se...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week I've translated something my father wrote in 1982, when he visited Poland while it was under Martial Law. The communist state was having trouble with rowdy unions st...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Never meet your heroes.That's what they say. But my father Marek met one of his by accident while visiting the mental asylum that was The Priory. He was there because his wife Hali...
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...
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...
