Daniel de Latour (Illustrator)

Daniel de Latour was born in 1971. He is an illustrator, mostly for children and young adults’ books and magazines. He has worked for many popular Polish children’s magazines, such as Miś and Świerszczyk, he has also illustrated many columns for Wysokie Obcasy, the Sunday supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza. He is best known for his drawings of dragons, dwarfs, astronauts and animals. The books that contain his work have been nominated for many prizes such as the Book of the Year by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People); in 2009 for the book by Henryk Bardijewski Wyprawa do kraju księcia Marginała [Expedition of Prince Marginal] as well as for the prize Przecinek i Kropka for the best book for children for Atlas świata. Ameryka Południowa by Kinga Preibisz-Wala. He has won the second prize in the contest for the best comic book organized by the Warsaw Uprising Museum (see here, accessed: July 3, 2018).

Bio prepared by Hanna Zarzycka, University of Warsaw, hanna.zarzycka@student.uw.edu.pl

Michał Rusinek (Author)

Michał Rusinek was born on January 31, 1972 in Krakow. He is a Polish literary scholar, translator and author, as well as Wisława Szymborska's former secretary (after her she received the Nobel’s prize and until her death in 2012, see here, accessed: June 25, 2018); he now manages Wisława Szymborska’s Foundation. Rusinek graduated in Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University in 1996; in 2002 he received his PhD on classical and post-modern rhetorics; in 2013 he was granted the next academic degree based on the book Retoryka Obrazu. Przyczynek do percepcyjnej teorii figury [Rhetoric of Image. Contribution to the Perceptive Theory of Rhetorical Figures] He is also an associate professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University specializing in literary theory.

Bio prepared by Hanna Zarzycka, University of Warsaw, hanna.zarzycka@student.uw.edu.pl