Gorgonowa Case

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The follow up to azarewicz'sharrowing eby Nie Byo ladw (Leave No Trace) depicting the case of the political murder of Grzegorz Przemykwhich earned azarewicz the Nike Literary Award in 2017the Gorgonowa Casefocuses on the case of Rita Gorgonowa, a cause clbre of the interwar period in Poland.

Gorgonowa, a governess having an affair with her employer, was accused of brutally murdering his daughter, the 17-year-old Lusia on New Years Eve in 1931. Despite her claims of innocence, Gorgonowa was declared Polands ultimate villain, and eventually convicted.

But questions remain about this casethe most notorious murder trial of the Second Polish Republicalong with questions about what exactly happened to Gorgonowa post-World War II.azarewicz revisits the crime with a contemporary lens and recreates the furor and celebrity revolving around this murder.

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Cezary Lazarewicz is a Polish journalist who has worked for Gazeta Wyborcza, Przekrj, and Polityka. His books include Reportae pomorskie (Pomeranian Reports, 2012); Szec piter luksusu. Przerwana historia domu braci Jablkowskich (Six Floors of Luxury: The Interrupted History of the Jablkowski Brothers' House, 2013); Elegancki morderca (Elegant Murderer, 2015); eby nie bylo ladw. Sprawa Grzegorza Przemyka (That There Would Be No Traces: The Case of Grzegorz Przemyk, 2016), for which he received the Nike Literary Prize, the Oscar Halecki Prize, and the MediaTora Prize; and Tu mwi Polska. Reportae z Pomorza (Here is Poland: Reports from Pomerania, 2017). eby nie bylo ladw was also named Book of the Year by Radio Krakw and was a finalist for the Ryszard Kapuciski Prize.

Sean Gasper Bye is a translator of Polish fiction, reportage, and drama. He has published translations of Watercolours by Lidia Ostalowska, History of a Disappearance by Filip Springer, The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch, and Ellis Island: A People's History by Malgorzata Szejnert. He's also published shorter pieces in The Guardian, Words Without Borders, Catapult, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. He is a winner of the 2016 Asymptote Close Approximations Prize, a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow, and former Literature and Humanities Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute New York.