Ignacy Karpowicz is a Polish writer and translator. His fifth work, Balladyny i romanse, won him the Polityka Passport Prize in 2010. He was previously nominated for this award for his debut novel, Niehalo (2006), and has since been nominated for the Nike Literary Award for Gesty (2009), Balladyny I romanse (2011), osci (2013), and Sonka (2015). Maya Zakrzewska-Pim is a Polish-British translator. She grew up and lived in Warsaw before studying English at Trinity College, Dublin. She completed an MPhil in Education at the University of Cambridge, and is currently studying for a PhD. Ignacy Karpowicz's Sonka is her second published translation.