Andrzej Tichý
Andrzej Tichý (1978) was born in Prague to a Polish mother and a Czech father. He has lived in Sweden since 1981. The author of six novels, a short story collection and a wide range of nonfiction and criticism, Tichý is widely recognized as one of the most important novelists of his generation. His novel Wretched ness is a postpolitical foray into modern day Swedish society. It was nominated for the August Prize, the International Booker Prize and won the Eyvind Johnson Prize.
Books by Andrzej Tichý
Purity
Andrzej Tichý
The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a colour wheel; a social realist kills h…
Wretchedness
Andrzej Tichý
Waiting by the canal in Malmö, a young cellist meets a disorientated junkie. The encounter sends him into a turmoil of memories, voices and associations. As the cellist oscillates between present and past, he is paralysed by doubt and confusion and h…
