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Anna Zaranko

Anna Zaranko is a translator of Polish fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent work includes Władysław Reymont’s epic The Peasants (Penguin Books, 2024) for which she received the Found in Translation Award. She translated Kornel Filipowicz’s novella, The Memoir of an Anti-Hero (Penguin Modern Classics, 2020, for which she also received the FIT Award) and is currently working on his short stories, as well as on Julia Fiedorczuk’s novel The House of Orion.

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Fall 2025

Our Lady Gravity

By Julia Fiedorczuk, translated by Anna Zaranko

The Kenyon Review · “Our Lady Gravity” by Anna Zaranko, translated and read by Julia Fiedorczuk They were planting potatoes when the blackthorn flowered. Starting with the big field by […]