Marek S. 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.

Works Novels Gniazdo światów (Nest of Worlds) (NOWA 2000) (English translation by Michael Kandel, Restless Books 2014) (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 "" on Words without Borders; reprinted in A Polish Book of Monsters (New York: PIASA Books, 2010) "Balsam długiego pożegnania" translated as "Balm of a Long Farewell" by Michael Kandel on Words without Borders "Kocia obecność" translated as “A Cat’s Presence” translated by Magdalena Jarczyk in the Chosen by Fate: Zajdel Award Winners Anthology (2000). ”Kara większa” translated as “The Greater Punishment” by Wiesiek Powaga in The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy (1996).