Born in Warsaw in 1960, ANDRZEJ STASIUK is the author of five novels and a collection of essays, Fado (2009). On the Road to Babadag wonthe prestigious Nike Award on its original publication in Poland in2005. Bill Johnston is the leading translator of Polish literature in the United States. His translation of Tadeusz Ro ewicz s new poems won the 2008 Found in Translation Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award.