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‘Grotesquely violent’ adaptation of The Painted Bird sees audiences flee screening, but critics loved it

The film is based on the book by Jerzy Kosiński who lied about his WWII childhood. The Painted Bird/Facebook

The new black and white adaption, directed and produced by Václav Marhoul, premiered during the Venice festival, is based on the controversial novel by Jerzy Kosiński of the same name in which he falsely claimed he was the victim of WWII atrocities during his childhood.

From Painted Bird to Ugly Bird: What is the truth behind Kosiński’s acclaimed autobiography?

A brilliant author, celebrity and tragic victim, or a fraud, careerist and outright liar? Even today, Jerzy Kosiński provokes controversy. On the 86th anniversary of his birth, TFN speaks to Joanna Siedlecka, the author of Kosiński’s biography “Ugly Black Bird”.

Happy birthday, ma’am! Queen of Polish jazz, Urszula Dudziak, turns 75 today

To help celebrate the big day (October 22nd), TFN’s Jacek Borowski caught up with the legendary jazz vocalist to chat about music, love and happiness.

And now it’s the USA! Man Booker winner Olga Tokarczuk nominated for yet another literary prize

One of the most important literary prizes in America, previous winners of the National Book Awards include William Faulkner, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, while Polish writers Jerzy Kosiński and Isaac Bashevis Singer have also won awards.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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Exclusive

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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