Paulina Wyrzykowski

Paulina Wyrzykowski was born in Warsaw, Poland, and immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of nine. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a Law degree and a Masters of Social Work, and went on to practice refugee law in Canada before moving to Uganda in 2007. She is currently working in the field of forced migration, transitional justice and conflict transformation.

The Year of Numbers was inspired by Paulina Wyrzykowski's experiences in Cairo, where she worked with African refugees while still a student. In her writing the author frequently deals with themes of cultural dislocation and the impact of political violence on individual lives. The Year of Numbers is her first novel.

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