About Me



Foreign affairs & environmental journalist since 1998, author of three literary novels, traveller (visited nearly 60 countries so far) and an expatriate (lives in her 4th country right now, and plans to move again)


Recent Feature Articles:

  1. - Globe & Mail - rabies in

  2. India


  1. - New Internationalist -

  2.   biofuels in Tanzania


  1. -Polityka 01/2010 - Paul

  2. Kagame, Rwanda’s

  3. president


  1. -Polityka 10/2009 - foeticide

  2. in India


  4. -Polityka 5/2009: Africa’s

  5. expectations towards

  6. Obama’s presidency

-Polityka: Somali pirates

-Polityka: reportage from

DR Congo

-Polityka 40/2008: reportage

from Rwanda



I have also published in:

Gazeta Wyborcza (Foreign

News); Twój Styl, Animal

Wellness etc.


Prizes:

-“Zawieszeni” shortlisted

for the Srebny Kalamarz

prize for the best book

published in Poland in 2007

-“Lepszy Świat” named one

of the best books of summer

2004 by Newsweek Poland

-finalist of the Peek

Through! International

Juried Photography

Exhibition in 2006


Photography exhibitions:

-3 group exhibitions in

ZPAF Gallery, Warsaw,

Poland

-individual exhibition in

Studio2 Gallery, Vancouver,

Canada


Contact me:

marta@zaraska.com

 
 
“Mallsville” - coming soon...

“Zawieszeni” (“Suspended”), published in XI 2007 by MUZA


         

       People warned her: if you move to Canada you’ll end up cleaning dishes in some shabby Canadian bar, like so many Poles before you. But Ewa was stubborn. She knew she can cope, she has always been strong. What she didn’t know was that if you make the very first step out of your doors you may never return the same. Immigrants hang suspended over the world,  swaying from the new country to the old one, there and back, there and back, never home, never just here.



Praise for “Zawieszeni”:


“ Great ability to build mood, clear and simple language, sharp observations  -  all of this proves that the author is already a well shaped writer who uses her literary tools with great ease” 


“Subtle but brilliant auto-irony allows to keep distance to the Polish and Canadian reality.”


Mieczyslaw Czuma

writer and editor-in-chief of Przekrój Magazine


Prizes:


Shortlisted for the Srebny Kalamarz prize for the best book published in Poland in 2007



“Lepszy Świat” (“Better World”), published in 2004 by WKTS

   


a novel about growing up in post-communist Poland


Praise for “Lepszy Świat”:


“Many plots mixed together as in a well-prepared salad make

“Lepszy Świat” an extremely interesting and gripping read.”


Łukasz Nowicki, Głos Wielkopolski (daily newspaper)


Prizes:


named one of the best books of summer 2004 by Newsweek Poland

buy my books here




 

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