COMING SOON:
FARONAUCI [The Faronauts]
to be published June 3rd 2026 by Czarne Publishing House
in POLISH
a lyrical memoir which follows the author’s six-year journey around the Baltic Sea, weaving together natural history and cultural reflections with personal encounters. The starting point for this pilgrimage is the view of the horizon and the timeless riddle of what lies beyond. A ten-year-old boy standing on a beach during his summer vacation sees before him a staggering infinity; thirty years later, as an adult man, he decides to touch it and to understand all the meanings we assign to it.
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KÝČERY [In the Carpathians]
a translation by Ján Púček, published in 2025 by Absynt
in SLOVAK
a Chatwinesque travelogue about discovering the Bieszczady range on the borderlands of Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine
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WODYSEJA [A Rivertale]
first published in 2025 by Widnokrąg Publishing House
in POLISH
a novel for kids about a brave young beaver who has to find her way back home
illustrated by Bartek Glaza
featured in New Books for Children 2026 catalogue by Book Institute (synopsis in English)
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PUSZCZA DOMOWA [Home Forest]
first published in 2024 by Czarne Publishing House
in POLISH
a polyphonic biography of Kampinos Forest, a national park which is situated in the vicinity of Warsaw
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PAŁACE NA WODZIE [Palaces on the Water]
first published in 2022 by Czarne Publishing House
in POLISH
a biography of European beaver population and a story of their surprising return from the brink of extinction
featured in New Books from Poland catalogue by Book Institute (synopsis in English)
winner of Planeta Izabelin Award 2023
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KICZERY [In the Carpathians]
first published in 2019 by Czarne Publishing House
in POLISH
a Chatwinesque travelogue about discovering the Bieszczady range on the borderlands of Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine
winner of Lądek Mountain Festival Grand Prix, Book of the Year Award and Readers' Award in 2020
nominated for Empik Award 2020
nominated for National Geographic Traveler Poland Book of the Year Award 2020
nominated for Planeta Izabelin Award 2020
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HAJSTRY [Backroad Landscapes]
first published in 2017 by Czarne Publishing House
in POLISH
a collection of essays on the search for the exotic in the common lowland and mountain landscapes of Central Europe
winner of the Magellan Award 2018
winner of National Geographic Traveler Poland Book of the Year Award 2018
nominated for the Literary Award of Warsaw 2018
nominated for the Witold Gombrowicz Award 2018
nominated for the Joseph Conrad Award 2018
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ABOUT ADAM ROBIŃSKI
Born in 1982 and raised in Warsaw, Adam Robiński graduated from Warsaw University in 2006. He started his career as a journalist, working for local and national newspapers and magazines. His literary debut, Hajstry. Krajobraz bocznych dróg (Backroad Landscapes), a collection of essays on the links between humans and nature that form while traveling Polish backroads, was published in 2017 and marked his shift to longer writing forms. He has since published a number of books, continuing to explore how human and more-than-human worlds mix.
They include Kiczery. Podróż przez Bieszczady, a Chatwinesque travelogue about discovering the Carpathian mountain range on the borderlands of Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine (2019, translated and published later in Slovakia); Pałace na wodzie (Palaces on the Water, 2022), a biography of European beaver population and a story of their surprising return from the brink of extinction; Puszcza domowa (Home Forest, 2024), a polyphonic more-than-human story of Warsaw's Kampinos National Park.
In 2025 he published Wodyseja (A Rivertale), a novel for children (8+ years old) about a brave young beaver who has to find her way back home.
Adam Robiński has received several literary and travel-writing awards and nominations, as well as scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the city of Warsaw, the Swiss Fondation Jan Michalski and Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Gotland. He lives and works in Warsaw.