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Mariusz Szczgieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions
Join award-winning Polish reportage writer and journalist Mariusz Szczygieł in conversation with his translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones and publisher Linden Editions about his work, Not There.
Not There is a collection of literary reportage about loss, absence and memories from one of Poland’s most celebrated writers. Szczygieł follows a Czech poet, a Ukrainian soldier, a Polish accountant, an Albanian poet and an Israeli writer as they account for their losses and gains; tracing lost conversations, cheese forks, poems, houses and lives. It is beautiful, profound and quietly uplifting. His work may be an inventory of losses, but ‘its pages are alive with the traces of what is not there: it is a meditation on absence that hums with the quiet pulse of what remains’ (Frank Wynne, Irish Times).
Mariusz Szczygieł is one of Europe’s most celebrated journalists. A reporter for Gazeta Wyborcza, he is the author of a number of books of reportage about the Czech Republic and Poland. His books have been published in twenty-one countries and have been awarded the Europe Book Prize and the Prix Amphi, among other honours. From 1995–2001, he hosted a popular talk show on Polish television. Szczygieł runs the Institute of Reportage in Warsaw, a creative writing reportage school, and Dowody na Isnienie, an independent publishing house. Not There won the Nike Award and Nike Readers’ Award in Poland on publication in 2019.
Antonia Lloyd-Jones translates fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children’s books from Polish. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. For ten years she was a mentor for the Emerging Translators’ Mentorship Programme, and is a former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.
Linden Editions is an independent publisher specialising in works of literary fiction, narrative non-fiction and essays from Europe, the Francophonie, and the Mediterranean region. It was established by Tasja Dorkofikis, Nermin Mollaoğlu, and Geraldine D’Amico in 2023. Linden Edition’s books have been awarded the Prix Femina, Prix Goncourt des Lyceens and Prix Millepages, and long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award, among others.
Date:
27 February 2026, 17:00
Venue:
St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details:
Seminar Room 10
Speakers:
Mariusz Szczygieł,
Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Organising department:
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Organiser contact email address:
comparative.criticism@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Mary Newman
