Marek Bieńczyk (b. 1956) is a prose writer, essayist and translator. He has published two novels, Terminal and Tworki, book-length essays Czarny człowiek: Krasiński wobec śmierci (Black Man: Krasiński and Death), Melancholia: o tych, co nigdy nie odnajdą straty (Melancholy: On Those Who Will Never Recover Loss) and Oczy Dürera: o melancholii romantycznej (Dürer’s Eyes: On Romantic Melancholy), as well as a feuilleton collection Kroniki wina (The Wine Chronicles).