my-server
← Wiki

Marek Huberath

Marek S. Huberath (pen name, born 1954) is a Polish professor of physics in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. His themes are philosophical, moral, and religious: how people become beasts or remain human in extreme circumstances. Many of his stories focus on death. Winner of the Zajdel Award in 1991 for a short story Kara większa and in 1997 for his novel Gniazdo Światów.

Works

Novels

  • Gniazdo światów (Nest of Worlds) (NOWA 2000) (English translation by Michael Kandel, Restless Books 2014)
  • ' (Cities under the Rock) (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2005)
  • Vatran Auraio (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2010)
  • Zachodni portal Katedry w Lugdunum (Western Portal of the Cathedral in Lugdunum) (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2012)

Short story collections

  • Ostatni, którzy wyszli z raju (The Last to Leave Paradise) (Zysk i S-ka 1996)
  • Druga podobizna w alabastrze (Second Image in Alabaster) (Zysk i S-ka 1997)
  • Balsam długiego pożegnania (Balm of Long Farewell) (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2006)

Short stories

  • "Wrocieeś Sneogg, wiedziaam..." translated by Michael Kandel as "" on Words without Borders; reprinted in A Polish Book of Monsters (New York: PIASA Books, 2010)
  • "Balsam długiego pożegnania" translated as "Balm of a Long Farewell" by Michael Kandel on Words without Borders
  • "Kocia obecność" translated as “A Cat’s Presence” translated by Magdalena Jarczyk in the Chosen by Fate: Zajdel Award Winners Anthology (2000).
  • ”Kara większa” translated as “The Greater Punishment” by Wiesiek Powaga in The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy (1996).

References

External links