| Title of the Fictional Work | Author’s Name | Translation title | Translator’s name | Language | Water Body Name | Water Body Type | Publication Details | Year of Publiction | Genre | Theme | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solaris | Stanislaw Lem | Solaris | Bill Johnston (2011). | Polish | Fictional Ocean | Ocean | Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej (Publishing House of the Ministry of National Defence). | 1961 | Novel | The absolute impossibility of truly communicating with a radically alien, non-human intelligence, and how humans project their own psychological mirrors instead of understanding the unknown. [1, 2, 3] | A crew of space scientists attempt to understand an extraterrestrial intelligence which takes the form of a vast ocean on the planet called Solaris. |
| Wiatr od Morza (Wind from the Sea) | Stefan Żeromski | – | – | Polish | Baltic Sea | Sea | Gebethner i Wolff. | 1922 | Novel | national identity, pomerania, polishness, history | An episodic historical novel about Polish attempts to establish control over the Baltic coast. |
| Długie Morze (The Long Sea) | Franciszek Fenikowski | – | – | Polish | Baltic Sea | Sea | Wydawnictwo Morskie. | 1956 | Novel | maritime history, nationalism, historical memory | Polish engagement with the Baltic. |
| Trójkąt Diabła (The Devil’s Triangle) | Franciszek Fenikowski | – | – | Polish | Baltic/ Open Sea | Sea | Wydawnictwo Morskie. | 20th Century | Novel | adventure, maritime danger, supernatural mystery | A maritime adventure centred on sailors and the mysterious dangers of the sea. |
| Statek Błaznów (The Ship of Fools) | Franciszek Fenikowski | – | – | Polish | Baltic/ Mediterranean | Sea | Wydawnictwo Morskie. | 1959 | Novel | ghost ship, folklore, maritime supernaturalism | During a storm in the Baltic, sailors tell stories about a voyage that ultimately encounters a ghost ship |
| Opowieści Morskie (Sea Stories / Maritime Tales) | Stanisław Maria Saliński | – | – | Polish | Pacific/ Indian Ocean | Ocean | Wydawnictwo Morskie. | 1928 | Maritime Prose | seafaring, travel, colonial encounter | Part of Saliński’s Far Eastern maritime cycle. |
| Hieroglif (Hieroglyph) | Stanisław Maria Saliński | – | – | Polish | Pacific Ocean | Ocean | Wydawnictwo Morskie. | 1957 | Maritime Prose | travel, cultural encounter, maritime identity | Polish sailor’s encounters with East Asian cultures become a journey of identity, memory, and cultural transformation. |
| Anna z Kamienia (Anna from Kamień) | Stanisław Maria Saliński | – | – | Polish | Paicifc Ocean | Ocean | Wydawnictwo Morskie. | 1962 | Novel | gender, travel, memory, seafaring | The novel follows Anna, a resilient woman whose life unfolds across the Pacific seascape as love, exile, and seafaring shape her search for belonging and remembrance |
| Pożegnanie z Pacyfikiem (Farewell to the Pacific) | Stanisław Maria Saliński | – | – | Polish | Pacific Ocean | Ocean | Wydawnictwo Morskie. | 1963 | Short Story | exile, travel, memory, return | The Pacific becomes a psychological geography of distance and belonging. |
| Ptaki Powracają do Snów (Birds Return to Dreams) | Stanisław Maria Saliński | – | – | Polish | Pacific/ Far Eastern Coast | Ocean | Wydawnictwo Morskie. | 1964 | Prose | Memory, childhood, lost homeland | An autobiographical/dream-like return to the author’s Far Eastern childhood. |
| Galeon Kapitana Mory (Captain Mory’s Galleon) | Jerzy Rychliński | – | – | Polish | Baltic Sea | Sea | Wydawnictwo Morskie. | 1956 | Novel | Naval history, war, Polish-Sweden conflict | Set against the Battle of Oliwa of 1627, this is an explicitly historical maritime novel. |
| Galeony Wojny (Galleons of War) | Jacek Komuda | – | – | Polish | Baltic Sea | Sea | Fabryka Słów. | 2007 | Novel | War, maritime sovereignty, nationalism. | Centres on the Swedish blockade of Gdańsk and Polish-Swedish struggles for Baltic dominance. |
| Złota Mucha (The Golden Fly) | Joanna Chmielewska | – | – | Polish | Baltic Sea | Sea | Czytelnik. | 1998 | Novel | Crime, tourism, amber, ladscape | A murder mystery involving a valuable piece of amber; the novel extensively depicts Poland’s Baltic coast and Vistula Spit. |
| Róże Cmentarne (Cemetery Roses) | Marek Krajewski & Mariusz Czubaj | – | – | Polish | Baltic Coast | Sea | Wydawnictwo W.A.B.. | 2009 | Novel | Crime, tourism, sexuality, violence. | A detective novel set around Władysławowo on the Baltic coast. The seaside resort becomes a space of both pleasure and murder. |
| Rozgwiazda (Starfish) | Julia Fiedorczuk | – | – | Polish | Mediterranean Sea | Sea | Wydawnictwo Literackie. | 2016 | Novel | Female consciousness, literary memory, ecology, predation. | A woman travels to an island to organise the papers of a deceased Polish émigré writer |
