Meeting with Patryk Zalaszewski, author of the book Luneta z rybiej głowy (The Fish Eye Telescope)

We invite you to a meeting with Patryk Zalaszewski about his debut book Luneta z rybiej głowy (Fish Eye Telescope), for which the author received the 2024 Jantar Literary Award from the Marshal of the West Pomeranian Province. The meeting will be hosted by Aleksandra Dąbrowska. Patryk Zalaszewski – born in 1996 in a seaside town. Screenwriter and author of short stories, winner of the main prize in the 6th Siegfried Lenz International Literary Competition and winner of a short story competition organized by Wydawnictwo Czarne, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, and Dwutygodnik. The collection of short stories "Luneta z rybiej głowy" is his literary debut. Luneta z rybiej głowy (Fish Eye View) Wonderful artistic prose, in which the maximum horror and beauty of the world is revealed in the lives of the inhabitants of a Pomeranian village. Coming from the fishing village of Chłopy, located between Mielno and Sarbinowo, Zalaszewski touched upon the cruelties of fishermen's lives – drowning at sea while fishing, animal suffering, intolerance towards non-heteronormative people or people with disabilities, and the inhuman toil of working on a fishing boat or on a coastal farm. All this is balanced by discreet stories of unquenchable love, boundless compassion, and the power of human imagination. Zalaszewski's prose, where realism is repeatedly broken by the grotesque, introduces the most penetrating insights into our existence given to people forced to stare at the sea for several generations.