The Polish Book Institute

Prose writer Wojciech Chmielewski, a winner of the Marek Nowakowski Literary Award and the Cyprian Norwid Award, talks about his first fascination with Dickens, Salinger's writing burnout, love for Saul Bellow, passionate reading of Marek Nowakowski, Kazimierz Orłoś, and Kornel Filipowicz, about contemporary writers he roots for, the books he was strongly affected by, and he reveals the question he asks himself when writing.