Krzysztof Maćkowski says the following about The Badeni Report, his literary debut: “I decided to situate my story within a modernist idiom, because I lacked a sensible equivalent for a contemporary story.  While renovating my house I found my master’s thesis and then came the idea to borrow some cultural/literary tricks from it.  I also took the intrigue straight from a collection of authentic criminal and court records. I strengthened it by researching the newspapers of the time; the incident actually took place a hundred years ago in the Cracovian Blonie. Besides that, I started with the assumption that there are parallels between that fin de siècle and now, which in a way explains the modernism of the tale."

Krzysztof Maćkowski – born in 1971, a traveller, freelance journalist, is making his debut as a writer with The Badeni Report. When he’s not writing his next story from the cycle about police inspector Gustav Mahler, he spends his time in places like Lhasa, Peking, Kathmandu, Lima, La Paz, Guatemala, Mexico, Cairo, Symferopol, or Tirana. You’ll search vainly for him in places like Paris, Rome or London. He combines his escapades with writing; he co-edited a guide to Sweden and is the co-author of a practical Baedeker, Grodno. A City on the Niemen. He is also responsible for three interviews with Ryszard Kapuściński published in the book A Reporter’s Self-Portrait. He willingly spends his time in the Latin-american realities written by Llosa and Marquez. He doesn’t mind an occasional thriller: Camilleri, Montalban or Eco. He avoids sensational books.