Miron Bialoszewski

Miron Białoszewski (1922-1983) was a playwright and actor and one of Poland's greatest postwar poets. Deported to a German work camp following the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, he escaped a month later and eventually returned to the devastated city after the war. NYRB Classics publishes his A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising.Bill Martin is a translator of German and Polish literature. His published translations include Natasza Goerke's Farewells to Plasma, selected essays in The Günter Grass Reader, Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives, and Michael Witkowski's Lovetown. He is a former fiction editor for the Chicago Review and a recipient of the 2008 NEA Literature Fellowship for Translation. He lives in Berlin. Alissa Valles is a translator of Polish literature and poet. Her debut poetry collection was Orphan Fire and she edited and co-translated Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems 1956-1998 as well as Herbert's The Collected Prose 1948-1998. She has contributed to Polish Writers on Writing and New European Poets. She is a recipient of the Poetry Magazine Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.