Szczepan Twardoch | Meeting around the book “Waldkauz”

Szczepan Twardoch — author's meeting around the latest book entitled “Waldkauz”

Concordia Design Poznań, Luna room

Tickets: https://app.evenea.pl/event/887980-52

the meeting will be led by Agnieszka BudnikwCo-organizers: Księgarnia Bookowski, Fundacja Voelkel

*The project was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. ___

The earth trembles, darkness comes out of the people, the time of man comes.

It's August 1920. In Upper Silesia it is boiling. Polish is mixed with German, Silesian with English and French of Allied soldiers. A distraught woman comes to the office of Wilhelm Pisulli, ex-Wachmeister of the Gliwice Criminal Police and today a private investigator of the Detektiv-Lux company. She's looking for her baby. But neither is she who he claims to be, nor is he an ordinary detective. For Pisulla has two souls, and the other, unbaptized, has never howled so loudly. Only milk and cognac can calm her down. It is because of them that a frantic voice in the form of a waldkauz, or wild boar, sets off on a subtle hunt, and then returns to the man abandoned by his family. Pisulla's son, Franz, was lost in the war, and his wife, taking the younger Karlicek, left. William is left with only Wendelin Draga, his closest childhood friend and a man of too many secrets.

Waldkauz is a story full of mysteries, a story of male friendship and duty towards loved ones, about redemption, love and what lies in the darkness separated from our world only by a thin, semi-permeable membrane. Wilhelm Pisulla knows the speech of birds and talks to drowned people, but even he can't find his son devoured by the beast of war.

The description comes from the publisher's website.

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Szczepan Twardoch — author of a dozen novels and short story collections, including: Morfina (2012), Drach (2014), King (2016), Kingdom (2018), Pokora (2020), Chołod (2022), Let's Say Piontek (2024) as well as the monodrama Byk (2022) and the drama Peace (2025) and other texts, libretto opertt Scenarios and scenarios. His books have sold over a million copies. Honored with many awards, including the “Polityka” Passport, the Kościelski Prize, the EBRD — the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development award, the Brücke Berlin-Preis, the Silesian Literary Laurel, three times the Onet O! Shining, Nike Readers' Award, K. Kutz Award, Lem Planet Award. For Null, he received the “Nike” Literary Award and the Nike Readers Prize, and the European Solidarity Center awarded the novel the title Ambassador of New Europe. The rights to his books have been sold to more than a dozen countries. Based on the King, a series was created for Canal+ and two theatrical productions, Morphine, Drach and Pokora also hit the stage.

Since the end of 2022, he has been involved in helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine, so far he has collected more than two and a half million zlotys in public collections and personally delivers purchased drones, cars and military equipment to the front. For his work in favor of the Ukrainian army in 2024 he was awarded the Stand with Ukraine award. He lives in Pilchowice in Upper Silesia.