Authors of published texts: Adam Szczuciński

About the author

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• Adam Szczuciński

  Born in Poznań in 1978. A neurologist, essayist, and lover of painting and fiction. He won the Leopold Staff Literary Award for his book "Paradiso" (2021) – a literary journey through Venice in the footsteps of Joseph Brodsky.

• He loves portraits most – he is interested in what is fragile, fleeting in a person. A glance, a wrinkle, a lock of hair.

  In Venetian gardens, he once met a family of blind men. They embraced trees, clinging to them as if to a mother's cloak in the freezing cold. And then – tapping their white canes – they shuffled, like three-legged insects, crippled centaurs, towards the luminous shore and the roar of the waves, persistently, without complaint, with a boundless faith in beauty.

• Selected publications

  • Włoskie miniatury - szkice z podróży (Zeszyty Literackie 2008)
  • Paradiso - szkice z podróży (Wydawnictwo Próby 2021)