Marek S. Huberath (pen name, born 1954) is a Polish professor of physics in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. His themes are philosophical, moral, and religious: how people become beasts or remain human in extreme circumstances. Many of his stories focus on death. Winner of the Zajdel Award in 1991 for a short story Kara większa and in 1997 for his novel Gniazdo Światów.
Works
Novels
- Gniazdo światów (Nest of Worlds) (NOWA 2000) (English translation by Michael Kandel, Restless Books 2014)
- Miasta pod skałą (Cities under the Rock) (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2005)
- Vatran Auraio (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2010)
- Zachodni portal Katedry w Lugdunum (Western Portal of the Cathedral in Lugdunum) (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2012)
Short story collections
- Ostatni, którzy wyszli z raju (The Last to Leave Paradise) (Zysk i S-ka 1996)
- Druga podobizna w alabastrze (Second Image in Alabaster) (Zysk i S-ka 1997)
- Balsam długiego pożegnania (Balm of Long Farewell) (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2006)
Short stories
- "Yoo Retoont, Sneogg. Ay Noo" translated by Michael Kandel on Words without Borders; in A Polish Book of Monsters (New York: PIASA Books, 2010)
- "Balm of a Long Farewell" translated by Michael Kandel on Words without Borders
External links
- Michael Kandel, Climbing with Huberath
- Short story '"Yoo Retoont, Sneogg. Ay Noo." in English, translated by Michael Kandel
- Short story "Balm of a Long Farewell." in English, translated by Michael Kandel
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