However, he had previously published, Zgorszeni wstają od stołów in 1997 as Michał S. Witkowski, with the S. standing for Sebastian.

[1] On December 17, 2004, Lubiewo was published — a radically queer novel that sold an estimated 15,000 copies.

[citation needed] The novel has been translated into German, English (Lovetown), Spanish, Dutch, Finnish (2007), French, Russian, Czech, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Slovenian (2010) and Hungarian (2010).

Lubiewo won the Gdynia Literary Prize in 2006, and Barbara Radziwiłłówna z Jaworzna-Szczakowej was awarded the Paszport Polityki in 2007.

[3] He rejects the label "gay" as a personal identity[4] as referring to a subculture in the queer community, those commonly represented by popular culture.