Katarzyna Sowula

Born in 1977 in Tuchów/Poland.

Katarzyna Sowula studied English at the Foreign Languages Teacher Training College, University of Jagiellonian in Cracow/Poland and now works as an English teacher.

Selected works: »Zero Osiemset«, short story collection, published with Czarne in 2007, German translation »Auftrieb« published in 2008; »Zero Osiemset«, theater monologue, screened on the Polish TVP Kultura Channel (2007).

In 2006 her short story »Na Trzydziestym« was published in the Polish Cultural magazine »Zalew Kultury« and »Zero Osiemset« in the literary magazine »Opowiesci«. Sowula’s first novel »Fototerapia« was published with Czarne in 2004. A Norwegian translation of her short story »Klejmo (Zeidlermal)« will soon appear in the literary magazine Nordahl.

In 2006 she took part in the Genshagener Schriftstellerwochen. Sowula was awarded fellowships by the Künstlerhaus Lukas (2007), the Foundation Genshagen (2006), and the Polish Ministry of Culture Scholarship in Literature (2005).