Andrzej Stasiuk
Polish writer & journalist (born 1960)
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Key Takeaways
- Andrzej Stasiuk ( pronounced : [ˈand͡ʐɛj ˈstaɕuk] ; born 25 September 1960 in Warsaw, Poland) is a contemporary Polish writer, journalist and literary critic.
- He won Kościelski Award (1995), Nike Award for Jadąc do Babadag (2005), Gdynia Literary Prize for Taksim (2010) and Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2016).
- After being dismissed from secondary school, Stasiuk dropped out of a vocational school too and drifted aimlessly, becoming active in the Polish pacifist movement and spending one and a half years in prison for deserting the army - in a tank, as legend has it.
- Entitled Mury Hebronu ("The Walls of Hebron"), it instantly established him as a premier literary talent.
Andrzej Stasiuk (pronounced: [ˈand͡ʐɛj ˈstaɕuk]; born 25 September 1960 in Warsaw, Poland) is a contemporary Polish writer, journalist and literary critic. He published, among others, travel literature and essays that describe the reality of Eastern Europe and its relationship with the West. He won Kościelski Award (1995), Nike Award for Jadąc do Babadag (2005), Gdynia Literary Prize for Taksim (2010) and Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2016).
Life and work
He was born on 25 September 1960 in Warsaw. After being dismissed from secondary school, Stasiuk dropped out of a vocational school too and drifted aimlessly, becoming active in the Polish pacifist movement and spending one and a half years in prison for deserting the army - in a tank, as legend has it. His experiences in prison provided him with the material for the stories in his literary debut of 1992. Entitled Mury Hebronu ("The Walls of Hebron"), it instantly established him as a premier literary talent. After a collection of Wiersze miłosne i nie ("Love and Non-Love Poems", 1994), Stasiuk's bestselling first full-length novel Biały kruk (published in English translation in 2000 as White Raven) appeared in 1995 and consolidated his position among the most successful authors in post-communist Poland.
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