Agata Tuszynska is a Polish writer, poet and journalist. She began her literary career in cultural periodicals as an author of articles on theater, combining it with an interest in biography and literary reportage. She made her debut in 1990 with the fin de siècle biography of the Warsaw actress, Maria Wisnowska. Along with biography and reportage, Tuszynska is engaged in writing poetry. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including Hope 2, which was released in the winter of 2010. Her poems have been published in English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Russian translations. She contributes to Historical Notebooks, Literary Notebooks, Tygodnik Powszechny, Borderlands, and Odra . She is a member of the Association of Polish Writers, PEN-Club, and ZAIKS. She has won awards from Columbia University, the Fulbright Foundation, MacDowell, Ledig-Rowohlt, Kosciuszko Foundation, Yad Vashem, and the American Jewish Archives. She is the winner of the Xavier Pruszynski PEN-Club award for outstanding achievements in the field of documentary and fiction, and in 2015 was awarded the silver Gloria Artis Medal. In 2016, she won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award in a category of Holocaust Literature for "Family History of Fear."
Portrait by KRZYSZTOF JABŁONOWSKI
