Aleksandra Wojtaszek (1991) is a Polish scholar of the Balkans, journalist, and translator. In 2020, she earned her PhD in contemporary literature and currently works as an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. As a translator from Croatian and Serbian, she has introduced Polish readers to contemporary authors like Faruk Šehić, Radmila Petrović, and Monika Herceg. In 2024, she and Monika Herceg were jointly awarded the European Poet of Freedom Award for the Polish translation of Lovostaj. Her translation work has also been rewarded by the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Award.

She is also the author of Fjaka: A Season in Croatia (2023), a nonfiction book that explores the cultural and social landscape of modern Croatia. For Fjaka, she received the Professor Jerzy Skowronek Award and was a finalist for the Grand Press Award for Reportage Book of the Year 2023. It has also already been translated into a few languages. Wojtaszek also wrote a scholarly monograph, Topographies of Imagined Spaces: Serbian and Croatian Speculative Fiction (2022), and regularly publishes essays and reportage in leading Polish outlets such as Tygodnik Powszechny, Dwutygodnik, Polityka and Herito.