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Author Event: Conversations with an Executioner by Kazimierz Moczarski translated by Sean Gasper Bye
Tue, Sep 01
|JustBook-ish
Conversations with an Executioner is a fascinating historical and psychological study of the development of Nazism. The book opens in Warsaw in 1949 where the freedom fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski is being held in a maximum security prison, accused of being an enemy of the state.
Time & Location
Sep 01, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
JustBook-ish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA
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About the event
Conversations with an Executioner is a fascinating historical and psychological study of the development of Nazism. The book opens in Warsaw in 1949 where the freedom fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski is being held in a maximum security prison, accused of being an enemy of the state by the Polish secret police. Join translator, Sean Gasper Bye who will be in conversation with award-winning translator Ellen Elias-Bursac as they dive into this work by Moczarski.
Sean Gasper Bye is a translator from Polish. His translations have won the EBRD Literary Prize and been shortlisted for a National Jewish Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize, the National Translation Award and others. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow and Translator-in-Residence at Princeton University. He serves on the staff of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and lives in Dorchester.
Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and non-fiction by Bosnian, Croatian,…