Paulina Bukowska has been writing almost from the day she was born, which means for the past seventeen years. A fan of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, uncontaminated by the literary world, she hasn’t yet had the chance to read the works of Gombrowicz, Schulz or Kubin – it’s scary to think what she’ll start writing once she does. She is the rebel spirit of young literature, with a highly original imagination that in 2006 was recognised by the jury in the “Creative Valley” competition organised by the TVP television channel, awarding the then 16-year-old Bukowska second prize for short fiction. On the insistence of her friends, she then sent an extract to the Kraków-based publisher, Znak, where none of the editors could believe it was the work of a teenager…

Paulina Bukowska describes herself as inspired by the muse of a pseudo-writer, resulting in lots of poems and stories. She gets her inspiration from life and the world, which, as she says, “if it weren’t the way it is, I would write about anything, from cabbages to kings”.