A Thousand Peaceful Cities

Author Bio

Jerzy Pilch is one of Poland’s most important contemporary writers and journalists — Czesław Miłosz once called him “the hope of young Polish prose.” In addition to his long-running satirical newspaper column, Pilch has published several novels, and he has been nominated for Poland’s prestigious NIKE Literary Award four times; he won the award in 2001 for The Mighty Angel, also available from Open Letter.