is a journalist at Krytyka Polityczna, a cultural anthropologist, graduate of The Graduate School for Social Research IFiS PAN and a mother. She was an editor at the KARTA Center and at Newsweek Historia. She co-edited ‘Salon: Niezależny w “spółcy” Anna Erdman i Tadeusz Walendowski 1976-79’ and is the author of ‘Żaba’, published by Krytyka Polityczna.
Polish writers are taking publishers to court over bestseller profits. In a book market hindered by dwindling readership and distribution cartels, the writer’s position is the most precarious. If the state supports farmers, priests and entrepreneurs, why not writers? Could reading, the cultural salve in Ukraine, be equally beneficial in Poland?
