Today I wanted to to give you some advice how to describe different types of hair in Polish.

Hair can be krótkie (short) or długie (long).

Man can be łysy (bold) or  łysiejący (bolding).

Some people have falowane/faliste (wavy) hair, some have proste (straight) hair and some have kręcone (curly) hair.

Some women have grzywka (bangs).

Hair can be rozpuszczone (worn down), związane w kucyk (tied in a pony tail), zaplecione w warkocz (braided), upięte w kok (worn in a bun).

Woman with blond hair is called blondynka (man – blondyn).

Woman with brown hair is called szatynka (man- szatyn).

Woman with black hair is called brunetka (man – brunet).

Woman with red hair is called ruda (man - rudy).

Hair can be suche (dry) or tłuste/przetłuszczające się (greasy).

Hair can have kolor naturalny (natural color) or can be farbowane (colored).

Perm is called trwała in Polish.

Shade of the hair can be jasne (light) or ciemne (dark).

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The novel was published by Archipelago Books, a small non-profit publishing house from Brooklyn specializing in the literature from the non-English speaking countries, in a translation by Bill Johnston, a professor at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and director of its Polish Study Center.

He is one of the most prominent translators of Polish literature into English and has translated works by the Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, the novelists Bolesław Prus and Stefan Żeromski, the avant-garde playwright and prose writer Witold Gombrowicz as well as contemporary Polish authors, Andrzej Stasiuk and Magdalena Tulli.

Several years ago Bill Johnston received the ‘Found in Translation’ Award, sponsored jointly by the Polish Cultural Institutes in London and New York, the Kraków-based Polish Book Institute and W.A.B. Publishers of Warsaw (for New Poems by Tadeusz Różewicz).

Eighty year-old Wiesław Myśliwski is one of leading Polish novelists. Most of his works focus on the life in the countryside. “Stone upon Stone”, written in 1984, is his first novel translated into English.

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In a recent interview with Newsweek, members of the Boyowki Feministyczne group outlined their ambition to shed the word’s negative connotations (negatywne konotacje) and make it more acceptable.

“We do not think the word ‘cipka’ is vulgar! It is perhaps the most appropriate word we have for this part of the body in the Polish language and we wish to bring it back to the general public,” says a spokesperson for the organization.

One of the ways that the group aims to promote the word is with its so called ‘Cipka Days’ (‘Dni Cipki’) – the first of which took place in Warsaw on April 18-21.

 “Two years ago, we came up with the idea for the event after hearing about an incident in which a TV presenter refused to say the word ‘vagina’ on air whilst announcing the name of a film,” says the group.

During the course of the event, documentaries were shown, discussions were held and various workshops were set up in order to show that there is more to the word than just its current ‘vulgar’ associations.

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