Crime fiction writer, novelist, and screenwriter Zygmunt Miłoszewski will participate in the  Jaipur Literature Festival 2025.

Polish writer will take part in the: “WRITING THE TWILIGHT. Philippe Claudel and Zygmunt Miłoszewski in conversation with Anisha Lalvani” starting at 3 pm on 30th January 2025.

Acclaimed French novelist and filmmaker Philippe Claudel and celebrated Polish author Zygmunt Miłoszewski will discuss the crime genre and the evolution of their storytelling.

To learn more about the panel, please follow:

https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/programme

Jaipur BookMark is an important publishing industry forum, that runs parallel to Jaipur Literature Festival. It gathers publishers, literary agents, writers, translators.

This year Ms. Agnieszka Iskra, Chief Coordinator at the Joseph Conrad International Literature Festival, and Ms. Olga Drenda will be participating in the Jaipur BookMark 2025.

Ms. Olga Drenda will take part in the panel on 31.01 titled “PERSPECTIVES ON PRACTICE: TRANSLATORS IN CONVERSATION. Michael Hofmann, Nashwa Nasreldin, Olga Drenda, and Radha Chakravarty in conversation with Mitra Phukan”. Ms. Drenda with other translators will deliberate on the art of translation.

On 3rd February she will take part in the panel “FESTIVAL DIRECTOR’S ROUNDTABLE – A FRACTURED WORLD: LITERATURE AMID CONFLICT AND CHANGE. Alice Mong, Govind Deecee, Irenosen Okojie, Janhavi Prasada, Jenny Niven, Namita Gokhale, Nicola Tuxworth, Olga Drenda, and Shubha Sanjay Urs in conversation with Sanjoy K. Roy .

For more information on programme and speakers, please visit: https://jaipurbookmark.org/speakers

Zygmunt Miłoszewski (b. 1976) is a top-selling Polish novelist, journalist, and scriptwriter. He achieved international success with his crime trilogy starring Prosecutor Szacki, and his work has been adapted for cinema and television.

His first novel, a horror story called The Intercom, was published in 2005 to high acclaim. In 2006, his novel for teenagers, The Adder Mountains, appeared. Major success came in 2007 with the publication of Entanglement, the first in the trilogy of crime novels that have gained him a popular following in Poland and abroad. In 2010 Entanglement was published in English by Bitter Lemon Press, and in 2011, a Polish movie based on the novel was released with the same title. In the same year, a sequel called A Grain of Truth was published, became an instant bestseller and earned Miłoszewski a place on the shortlist (of three) for the prestigious “Passport Polityka” award given annually to writers under the age of 40. In 2012 it too was published in English translation by Bitter Lemon Press, and in 2015 the Polish movie version was released, with a screenplay co-authored by Miłoszewski and director Borys Lankosz. Meanwhile, in 2014, Rage, the third and final part of the trilogy featuring Prosecutor Szacki as the main protagonist, had won him the “Passport Polityka”. Rage was published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2016. 

All three of these crime novels have appeared in more than 40 editions in 18 languages. In Poland alone they have jointly sold over a million copies. Outside Poland, Miłoszewski’s greatest success has been in France and the author has won or been shortlisted for numerous literary prizes including the “Prix du Polar Européen”, awarded to the best European crime novel. All three novels have been adapted for radio dramatization and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in the UK.

Between crime novels, in 2013 Miłoszewski wrote Priceless, a fast-paced art heist thriller that won several awards and has so far been published in six foreign languages. In 2017 it was published in French translation (winning the Transfuge prize), and in 2018 in English, by AmazonCrossing. It is now being adapted for the screen by Netflix. His next novel, a romantic “what if?” story, Will You Still Love Me Yesterday? (2018) won three “Book of the Year” awards.

Miłoszewski is also a screen writer. As well as co-authoring the screenplay for A Grain of Truth, he co-authored a Polish television series called The Prosecutor.

Olga Drenda is a writer, essayist, translator, anthropologist and contemporary culture researcher. She has collaborated with cultural institutions, universities, and museums as a researcher, guest lecturer, curator, author of expert papers, and translator (including the University of Warsaw, School of Form, Universität Wien and Universität Graz). She is a regular columnist for Tygodnik Powszechny and a contributor for Polish magazines, as well as an event and radio host and the Creative Director of the Conrad Festival.