Karolina Lewestam

Karolina Aldona Lewestam (born October 20, 1979) is a Polish philosopher, children's book author, and member of the editorial board of the magazine Pismo.

Education Lewestam was born on October 20, 1979. She was an only child, and has described her early childhood as lonely. She became interested in reading from a young age.

Lewestam graduated from the University of Warsaw with a Bachelor's degree in sociology and a Master's degree in philosophy as part of the Interdisciplinary Individual Humanities Studies (1998–2004). She was a holder of the Minister of National Education scholarship three times. In 2002–2003 she studied at Bard College Berlin in Berlin, Germany. From 2006–2013 she studied at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. where in 2014 she defended her thesis, written under the supervision of Allen Speight, PhD in ethics, The Hare and the Tortoise: Problems with the Notion of Action in Ethics.

Career Lewestam worked as an assistant at the University of Warsaw (2004–2006) and at Boston University (2008–2011). and a lecturer (2002–2004) at Collegium Invisibile. She taught at a secondary school in Warsaw in 2002. She has published columns in the monthly publications Pismo, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, and Gazeta Wyborcza.

She was awarded the Polish Academy of Sciences award for the best essay in 1997. 2016 , 2017, 2018, 2020 ).

Her 2021 book, Mała księżniczka (The Little Princess), is a reinterpretation of the 1943 novella The Little Prince; changes include the introduction of a female protgonist and having Amelia Earhart be the book's narrator.

Her book, Dragon Shepherds, was awarded the EMPiK Discovery 2022.

Her 2023 novel Silla, and its 2024 sequel, Strażniczka perły, are fantasy novels set in the arctic. Lewestam received the 2024 Hestia Literary Journey Award for Silla. Following the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Lewestam and her husband hosted some displaced Ukrainians in their home. She is a feminist.

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