Born in Warsaw in 1969, he is a writer and university professor. He has published, among other works, the collection of short stories The Ballad of a Good Thief in a Tracksuit (2005), the novels The Playground (2007), The Fakir of Ipi (2013) and The Turban of Master Mansur. Sufi Stories for Orators and Leaders and the children’s novel Martinique and White Island (2014) dedicated to totalitarianism. He is the author of more than a dozen plays, performed in Poland and abroad, for example in Berlin, Naples, Madrid, Havana and Tel Aviv. His play Argo received the audience award at the international festival in Heidelberg Stückemarkt (2006). In Poland he has received several awards, among others for his plays Three Gentlemen Travelling by Car and The Redoubts. He is a permanent contributor to the Polish Radio Theatre. In his works he describes the collisions of the sacred and the profane, as well as the uncertain boundaries between fiction and reality. He experiments with form, mixing different styles and poetics, from realism to grotesque, mockument (documentary fiction), detective fiction, horror and commedia dell’arte. His latest work, The Macaques of the Celebes (2016), narrates the relationships between humans and animals.