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Antonia Lloyd-Jones about translating the crime novels of Zygmunt Miłoszewski

Zygmunt Miloszewski - A Grain of Truth

Whenever I’m asked for an example of a spicy Polish phrase, the idiom that comes to mind is one that I first encountered in “A Grain of Truth” by Zygmunt Miłoszewski. You’ll find it on page 79, when the main character, Prosecutor Szacki, is relieved to hear that his boss will deal with the journalists asking awkward questions about his case. “Not his circus, not his monkeys”, he thinks – not his problem....

INTERVIEW WITH ZYGMUNT MIŁOSZEWSKI--NEW LITERATURE FROM EUROPE

Zygmunt Miloszewski - A Grain of Truth

Do you think of yourself as a Polish Stieg Larsson?

I’d like to think that in a few years people will say: Larsson? Is that the Swede who was popular before Miłoszewski’s day?