Mikołaj Łoziński, 26 years old, is a writer and photographer, a graduate in sociology from Sorbonne (Paris 5). He has published short stories in literary magazines and held a number of photographic exhibitions. He has earned his living by doing odd jobs, among others he worked as a painter and assistant-cum-interpreter to a blind psychotherapist. Reisefieber, which was three years in the making, in both France and Poland, was his first novel.