Karolina Kuszyk
Author · 3 books
Born in Legnica in 1977, Karolina Kuszyk worked as an author, literary translator and university lecturer. Her book In den Häusern der anderen (Polish: Poniemieckie, Czarne, 2019) examines the legacy of German material culture in Lower Silesia. It sparked lively debate in Poland about how to deal with this heritage and became a Spiegel bestseller in Germany. Kuszyk received the Arthur Kronthal Prize in 2020, the Culture Prize of Silesia from the State of Lower Saxony in 2023, and the Georg Dehio Book Prize in 2024.