Concordia Talks – A Meeting with Marcin Meller

How do you write a novel after years of working at Polityka, Newsweek, and leading Playboy? Marcin Meller is an iconic figure in the Polish journalism scene. We organized an author event centered on his latest novel, Dzieci Lwa (Children of the Lion).

Marcin Meller – a historian by education, he spent twelve years as a reporter for Polityka and also worked as a television journalist. From 2003 to 2012, he was the editor-in-chief of Playboy, and from 2016 to 2020, he served as publishing director of the Foksal Publishing Group. He is also a columnist for Newsweek. Together with his wife, Anna Dziewit-Meller, he wrote Gaumardżos! Stories from Georgia (2011). He has published a collection of reports, Among the Crazies: Field and Adventure Stories (2013), as well as collections of columns: Watermelon Seller (2016), The Bat and the Dried Lemons (2019), and Three Cans of Fava Beans (2023). In 2022, he released the adventure-thriller novel Red Earth, which immediately became a bestseller. Privately, he is a lover of the borderlands of Warmia and Mazury, where he spends much of his life between Reszel and Mrągowo.

Children of the Lion
A moving and suspenseful story about human relationships that, even when ended, stay with us for a lifetime. Marcin Meller combines his talent for telling engaging stories and his sense of humor with a deep understanding of the Polish and Georgian spirit.

"It is an adventure-thriller novel about friendship for life and death, unfulfilled love, and civil war. We all regret something, long for something, and wonder what might have been… And that is what Children of the Lion is about." – Marcin Meller

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