PrintMeet The Cult Author: Pawel Huelle at Jewish Book Week
Sunday 7 March, 6.30pm
The Royal National Hotel
Bedford Way, London WC1 0DG
Tickets £8
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Pawel Huelle has a cult following both in Poland and internationally. A novelist, playwright and newspaper columnist, he worked for Solidarity, was a university lecturer in philosophy and head of Gdansk’s local television channel. He talks to Maureen Freely about his life and work, including the novel that launchedhis career, Who Was David Weiser?, the story of an enigmatic Jewish boy set inHuelle’s native city of Gdansk.
Pawel Huelle is a novelist, playwright and newspaper columnist. His novels David Weiser, Mercedes-Benz, Castorp and The Last Supper have been translated into many languages. He was twice shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Price (for Mercedes-Benz in 2006 and Castorp in 2008).
Maureen Freely is a writer, translator, senior lecturer at Warwick University and a member of English PEN. She is the author of 8 novels and has translated most of Orhan Pamuk’s work.