A novelist, dramatist, short-story writer, and essayist, Zofia
Nalkowska (1884-1954) was a leading proponent of the
avant-garde of her day. A resident of Warsaw, she was an active
member of the Polish PEN Club, the first female member of the
Polish Academy of Literature, and the patron of a popular Warsaw
literary salon. Her life in occupied Warsaw during World War II is
the subject of her Wartime Diaries and Medallions.
Diana Kuprel has a doctorate in comparative literature from
the University of Toronto. She is a postdoctoral fellow for the
Literary History Project, University of Toronto, and editor in
chief of Books in Canada: The Canadian Review of Books.
[A] powerful and important work." —Jewish Book World
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