Magda Kiełbowicz

is a French and Romance philologist, and a PhD student at the Institute of Linguistics of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She studies the language of literary characters. She is interested in what they are saying, how they are saying it, and what they keep to themselves. Kiełbowicz publishes short stories for “Świerszczyk” [Little Cricket], a Polish children’s magazine. She likes to write for children in a way that appeals to adults, and likes to write for adults in a way that appeals to children. She believes in literature.