Marek Huberath

Marek S. Huberath (pen name, born 1954) is a Polish professor of physics in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. His themes are philosophical, moral, and religious: how people become beasts or remain human in extreme circumstances. Many of his stories focus on death. Winner of the Zajdel Award in 1991 for a short story Kara większa and in 1997 for his novel Gniazdo Światów.

Marek S. Huberath

Works

Novels

• Gniazdo światów (Nest of Worlds) (NOWA 2000) (English translation by Michael Kandel, Restless Books 2014)
• Miasta pod skałą [pl] (Cities under the Rock) (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2005)
• Vatran Auraio (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2010)
• Zachodni portal Katedry w Lugdunum (Western Portal of the Cathedral in Lugdunum) (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2012)

Short story collections

• Ostatni, którzy wyszli z raju (The Last to Leave Paradise) (Zysk i S-ka 1996)
• Druga podobizna w alabastrze (Second Image in Alabaster) (Zysk i S-ka 1997)
• Balsam długiego pożegnania (Balm of Long Farewell) (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2006)

Short stories

• "Wrocieeś Sneogg, wiedziaam..." translated by Michael Kandel as "Yoo Retoont, Sneogg. Ay Noo [pl]" on Words without Borders; reprinted in A Polish Book of Monsters (New York: PIASA Books, 2010)^[1]
• "Balsam długiego pożegnania" translated as "Balm of a Long Farewell" by Michael Kandel on Words without Borders^[2]
• "Kocia obecność" translated as “A Cat’s Presence” translated by Magdalena Jarczyk in the Chosen by Fate: Zajdel Award Winners Anthology (2000).^[3]