JAK NIE ZOSTAŁEM POETĄ (How I Did Not Become a Poet)

One of the most popular writers. Recognised by Polish and foreign critics. Many awards and numerous nominations. And it was only by a hair’s breadth that everything didn’t turn out completely differently…

One day, in the 1990s, a long-haired teenager in heavy boots enters a poets’ club in Gliwice to see how his poems will be received. Result? Many years later, Szczepan Twardoch’s Jak nie zostałem poetą hits the bookstores. And in the book? History and everyday life. Identity and self-reflection. Very serious and tongue-in-cheek.

‘I still haven’t decided whether practising literature is simply a profession for me, or rather something like a mental illness,’ writes the author. And he tells stories that could give rise to new novels…

One day, during the Second World War, the love letters that boys from the front sent to their sweethearts suddenly stopped arriving in one of the Silesian villages. Have they forgotten? Have they stopped loving? Did something terrible happen to them? And why so suddenly? Or does the young postwoman have something to do with it?

The description comes from the publisher’s website.