Natasza GoerkeNatasza Goerke is a representative of the bruLion generation in Polish literature, one of the freshest talents to emerge in recent years. She was born in Pozan, Poland, in 1960, and studied Polish and Oriental languages at university. She has publishd three books in Polish and one collection in German translation. Her stories have appeared in numerous Polish magazines and in Slovenian, Macedonian, Serbian, German and English anthologies (The Eagle and the Crow, Serpent's Tail--UK, 1996). In 1993 she received the Czas Kultury Prize; in 1995 she won a six-month stipend to the prestigious Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, the only Polish writer to receive this distinction. She currently lives in Hamburg, Germany. Read More Read Less