Agnieszka Taborska (born 1961 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer, art historian, specialist in Surrealism, translator, and educator.
Her main areas of interest are French surrealism and how women are portrayed in Western art and literature of the late 19th and early 20th century.
She is the author of essays, short stories, books for children, and novels in which her humor, care for language, and knowledge of Surrealism play important role.
They have been illustrated by eminent artists such as Józef Wilkoń,[3] Lech Majewski,[4] Antoni Boratyński, Franciszek Maśluszczak,[5] Andrzej Klimowski,[6] Mieczysław Wasilewski, Selena Kimball,[7] Krystyna Lipka-Sztarbałło,[8] and Aleksandra Gołębiewska.
[9] Films (Crazy Clock and A Fisherman at the Bottom of the Sea, made in 2009 and 2011 by Leszek Gałysz;[10] theatre plays (The Office of Lost Dreams, based on The Dreaming Life of Leonora de la Cruz, by the Compagnie Miettes de Spectacle, Paris, 2010[11][12] and The Black Imp never sleeps, Teatr Uszyty, Krakow, 2016); an opera (The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks, Społeczny Chór Czarnego Karła, Bydgoszcz, 2019), and a radio play (Someone is Knocking at the Wall, Teatr Miniatura, Gdańsk, 2015) have been adapted from her works.