Twice winner of the Nike Literary Award, the most important Polish literary award, for the novels "Bieguni" ("Flights") and "Ksiegi Jakubowe" ("Jacob's Scriptures").
Winner of The Man Booker International Prize 2018 for the novel "Bieguni" ("Flights").
She is a graduate of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw.
He has one son - Zbyszko Fingas, who is a psychologist by profession.