| I was born in Poland. In
1977-80 I took part in the movement fighting the
Communist/Russian suppression of Poland. I wrote a book W
Polsce (In Poland), which was published in 1981 by
the underground, and in 1983 in an émigré publishing
house in England. In 1984 it received the Koscielski
Prize: >.
In 2005 Newsweek Poland ranked it as one of the Polish
Books of the Century: >. In 1981 I moved from Poland to France and then on to New York then Montana and then Seattle. In 1990 I wrote Lubark, a novella in English, for which I received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts: >. In 1991 the Ucross Foundation invited me to Wyoming: >. While on a ranch there, I began sketching a story of a culture-drifter riding outlaw trail in the contemporary American West. I titled it To Wyoming.
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