Magdalena Tulli | |
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 Tulli in 2015 | |
| Born | Maddalena Flavia Tulli 20 October 1955 Warsaw, Poland |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
| Occupation(s) | writer, translator |
| Works | Sny i kamienie (1995) Kontroler snów (2007) Szum (2014) |
Magdalena Tulli (born Maddalena Flavia Tulli; 20 October 1955 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish novelist and translator, one of Poland's leading writers. [1]
Tulli has an Italian father and a Polish-Jewish mother, and grew up partially in Italy. [2] She graduated from high school in 1974 in Warsaw and obtained a Master's degree in biology at the University of Warsaw in 1979. She then worked six months at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station. In 1983, she earned a PhD at the Institute of Biology and Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. [3]
Tulli made her literary debut in 1995 with the prose poem Sny i kamienie. [4] She is a member of the Polish Writers' Association. Her works have been translated into many languages. In 2012, she won the Gdynia Literary Prize for her book Włoskie szpilki ("Italian High Heels"). [2] In the same year, her novel In Red, translated by Bill Johnston, was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. [5] She received five nominations for the Nike Award - Poland's most prominent literary prize. Her style has been characterized as postmodern and metafictional. [2]
She translated a number of books including Marcel Proust's La Fugitive , Italo Calvino's The Watcher and Fleur Jaeggy's La paura del cielo. [2]
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