Półka literacka 2024
Literary Bookshelf 2024

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the most interesting and highly acclaimed Polish prose and poetry books published in 2024. Itsaim is a summary of what took place on the Polish publishing market over the past year. The author attempts to answerquestions about how bestseller lists are shaped and whether the sense of threat, for instance, caused by the war inUkraine, continues to affect writers and poets, as reflected in their texts. The intention was to examine what type ofliterary fiction was most willingly published and which authors enjoyed the most significant interest of reviewers. Thepresented brief analysis and interpretation of ten works (five prose and five poetic) also demonstrate how other commentatorson contemporary literary life have written about them. The selection of books was thus based not so muchon the subjective impressions of the author as on reception. The aim of the sketch was also to showcase publishingdiversity and draw attention to the most popular creative trends. Among the discussed authors this time are: UrszulaHonek, Ignacy Karpowicz, Hanna Krall, Monika Lubińska, Dorota Masłowska, Izabela Morska, Tomasz Różycki, PawełSarna, Kinga Skwira, and Bohdan Zadura, and thus in most cases, authors well known to the Polish reading public,who published their new books sometimes after several years of silence. From the prepared selection, it appears thatparticular appreciation (also among “professional” readers) was enjoyed above all by those works in which the authorsattempted to confront various fears, traumas, threats, and emotions. The text falls within the field of literary studiesand literary criticism.

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