Krystyna Kofta lives in Warsaw. Husband professor of psychology, son biologist. Graduated with M.A. in Polish in 1970. Novels:
The Visor (1978) – (Faustian themes),
Sawdust (1980) – (The Stalinist era seen through the eyes of children),
The Small Predator House (1988) – (a woman gaining her freedom from the power of her mother and then her husband),
No-one’s Body (1988) – (a gothic romance),
In Praise of Witches (1994) – (on female power),
The Secret Diary of Melanie R. (1997) – (balancing between the real and virtual worlds),
The Thief of Memory (1998) – (today and the memory of childhood).
Other work:
The Man who didn’t die (1990) – (a collection of short stories),
How to get, keep and drop a man (1992) – (a parody of a self-help manual),
Harpies, piranhas, angels (1997) – (a dialogue with journalist Malgorzata Domagalik on the subject of the lack of solidarity among women).
Film scripts:
I like Bats (horror),
Femina (based on
The Small Predator’s House).
Other Plays:
Professor Mephisto’s Salon – (Faust and Mephisto are women).
On-going work for the women’s magazine Your Style.