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Marcin Wicha

Marcin Wicha (born 1972, in Warsaw, Polish People's Republic) is a Polish graphic designer, children's author, and essayist.

Marcin Wicha
Born1972
Occupation(s)writer, essayist, graphic designer

Early life edit

Wicha was born in Warsaw in 1972, to a family of Jewish origin the son of Piotr Wicha (1946–2006), an architect, and his wife, Joanna Rabanowska-Wicha (1946–2015), the grandson of Jan Rabanowski from his father's side, who was a politician and minister of communications of Poland during the Communist period and of Władysław Wicha from his mother's side, who served as Ministry of Interior.

Career edit

He has been a cartoonist for the Catholic weekly magazine Tygodnik Powszechny, and has contributed cartoons to the monthly magazine Charaktery and the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.[1]

He has written a number of children's books.[2]

His 2017 book Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem received the 2017 Polityka Passport for literature,[3] the 2018 Nike Literary Award, and the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award,[4] and was shortlisted for the Gdynia Literary Prize.[5] It was translated into English and published in 2021 under the title Things I Didn't Throw Out.[6] It is partly an autobiographical novel and partly a meditation on the loss of loved ones.[7] In translation it was awarded a PEN Translates Award by English PEN in 2021.[8]

Works (in English translation) edit

  • Things I Didn't Throw Out (2021: Daunt Books, translated by Marta Dziurosz), ISBN 978-1-914198-02-1
  • How I Stopped Loving Design (online excerpt, Public Seminar, translated by Marta Dziurosz)

References edit

  1. ^ "Andrew Nurnberg: Marcin Wicha". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Andrew Nurnberg: Marcin Wicha". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Krakow City of Literature: Marcin Wicha won the literary Paszport Polityki award!". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Andrew Nurnberg: Marcin Wicha". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Asymptote: Things I Didn't Throw Out". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Andrew Nurnberg: Marcin Wicha". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Books from Poland: Śliwiński, Piotr, "Things I Didn't Throw Out"". Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Publishing Perspectives: English PEN Names a New Round of 'PEN Translates' Award Grants". 8 July 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2021.

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