Magdalena Tulli (born Maddalena Flavia Tulli; 20 October 1955 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish novelist and translator, one of Poland's leading writers.^[1]

Tulli has an Italian father and a Polish-Jewish mother, and grew up partially in Italy.^[2] She graduated from high school in 1974 in Warsaw and obtained a Master's degree in biology at the University of Warsaw in 1979. She then worked six months at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station. In 1983, she earned a PhD at the Institute of Biology and Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.^[3]

Tulli made her literary debut in 1995 with the prose poem Sny i kamienie.^[4] She is a member of the Polish Writers' Association. Her works have been translated into many languages. In 2012, she won the Gdynia Literary Prize for her book Włoskie szpilki ("Italian High Heels").^[2] In the same year, her novel In Red, translated by Bill Johnston, was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.^[5] She received five nominations for the Nike Award - Poland's most prominent literary prize. Her style has been characterized as postmodern and metafictional.^[2]

She translated a number of books including Marcel Proust's La Fugitive, Italo Calvino's The Watcher and Fleur Jaeggy's La paura del cielo.^[2]

• Sny i kamienie 1995. (Dreams and Stones, Archipelago Books 2004).
• W czerwieni 1998. (In red, Archipelago Books 2011).
• Tryby 2003. (Moving Parts, Archipelago Books 2005).
• Skaza 2006. (Flaw, Archipelago Books 2007)^[6]
• Kontroler snów 2007, (Wydawnictwo Nisza)
• Włoskie szpilki 2011, (Wydawnictwo Nisza)^[7]
• Szum, 2014 (Wydawnictwo Znak)^[8]
• Ten i tamten las, 2017 (Wydawnictwo Wilk i Król)
• Jaka piękna iluzja. W rozmowie z Justyną Dąbrowską, 2017 (Wydawnictwo "Znak")

• Polish literature
• List of Polish writers
• Nike Award