Cold Sea Stories

About the Author

Paweł Huelle spent his early writing career as an employee of the Solidarity Movement’s press office in the late 1980s. He subsequently achieved great critical success (both domestically and in translation) as a writer of novels, short stories and essays, and has been honoured with numerous awards. His first novel, Who Was David Weiser? (1987, published in English by Bloomsbury, 1990) was described by critics in Poland as ‘the book of the decade’, ‘a masterpiece’ and ‘a literary triumph’ and elicited comparisons to Günter Grass and Bruno Schulz; subsequently it has been widely translated, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Huelle followed this with Moving House and Other Stories (1991, Bloomsbury 1994), First Love and Other Stories (1996), and then three novels, Mercedes Benz (2001), Castorp (2004) and The Last Supper (2007). The novels were published in English translation by Serpent’s Tale (2005, 2007 and 2008 respectively), with Mercedes Benz and Castorp both shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.