Europe
Poland
4 authors in the ranking·12 rated books·7 books set here
Polish authors in the reader ranking include Andrzej Sapkowski and Stanisław Lem. The Witcher series began with a short story Sapkowski wrote for a competition run by the magazine Fantastyka, which printed it in December 1986. Lem’s “Solaris” appeared in 1961. Books set in what is now Poland include testimonies of the Holocaust: Art Spiegelman’s “Maus”, in 1992 the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, and Primo Levi’s “If This Is a Man”, his account of Auschwitz. The Nobel Prize in Literature went, among others, to Wisława Szymborska (1996) and Olga Tokarczuk (2018).
The most-read authors and their best books
Authors 4
- Andrzej Sapkowski6 ranked booksBaptism of Fire8.2
- Joseph Conrad3 ranked booksLord Jim7.6
- Stanisław Lem2 ranked booksThe Cyberiad7.9
- Tomasz Jedrowski1 ranked bookSwimming in the Dark8.4
The story is set here 7
Books whose story is set in this country, according to Wikidata and our own additions.
- The Boy in the Striped PyjamasJohn Boyne7.7
- Effi BriestTheodor Fontane
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadOlga Tokarczuk
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