eastern europe
Andrzej Bobkowski was one of Poland's great 20th-century prose writers who disappeared into exile and obscurity during the Communist years, and whose work would only find recognition in Poland in the 1990s after the end of censorship, thirty years after his death. His remarkable personal narrative of the German occupation of France and his assessment of French culture during this period of national crisis, "Wartime Notebooks: 1940-44" finally made it into an excellent English translation by Laura Engelstein and Grażyna Drabik in 2018, published by Yale University Press. - H-Poland