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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,What with the opening of the Hanna and Jacek Żuławski exhibition next week, I thought I'd translate another story from my father's memoirs featuring his cousin Jacek. It's about mo...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Last week, I discovered a new exhibition is opening dedicated to the work of Hanna and Jacek Żuławski. It opens on 20th Februrary at BWA Bydgoszcz and is on until 29th March. The c...
