Leszek Stalewski, one of several authors participating in the prose workshop at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin this year, was born in Wroclaw, Poland, and has lived in Germany since 1986. Leszek studied Germanistik at the Humboldt University, then worked as an art handler for a couple of years. He has been writing for a living since 2014. In May 2016 he was invited to read one of his short stories, Leitplanke (Hard Shoulder), at Kabeljau und Dorsch in Berlin. He is currently completing his first novel, Eine Einäscherung (An Ashening). (2017)