Ania Card
Ania Card
Ania Card lives in Brighton, but was born and grew up in Poland. With nearly half of her life spent in the UK she often finds herself between Poland and the UK, linguistically and culturally. Writing has always been part of her life with much of her childhood and adolescence spent writing novellas and short stories in Polish.
She started writing in English when she arrived at Cardiff University, getting involved with the student magazine “Quench”. Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” made her quit her degree and leave Cardiff for London to sit film theory at King’s College London, where she also turned to writing film reviews.
Music always running at the heart of everything she did, Ania co-ran an indie club night in London, when she also started writing music reviews, promoting DIY and upcoming bands. She directed a short film with a few filmmaking friends, which led her to studying film production in London. She managed a production of short films and music videos and ran on sets before switching to work in visual effects.
In that time she gave script writing a go, but it was always prose that felt instinctive and she realised that writing fiction was the only thing she ever wanted to do. Ania has always wanted to explore the Eastern European experience in the UK and challenge the reductive representations of Eastern Europeans in British culture, looking at different “Englishes” and finding her own Eastern European voice within the English language. This lies at the heart of her debut novel.
Dead Ink Books landed Ania Card’s "stunning" debut book
Commissioning editor Harriet Hirshman acquired world English language rights from Clare Coombes at the Liverpool Literary Agency. The book will be published in 2024.