Jerzy Pilch
Jerzy Pilch (born August 10, 1952 in Wisła , † May 29, 2020 in Kielce ) was a Polish writer .
Life
Pilch studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow . He then worked from 1989 to 1999 as an editor for the well-known liberal-Catholic weekly newspaper Tygodnik Powszechny . From then on he was a freelance writer and, until 2006, a columnist for the weekly Polityka . He then moved to the daily Dziennik (Axel Springer Polska) in the same position .
As early as 1989 he received the Kościelski Prize , which was donated by exiled Poles and awarded mainly to younger authors . In 2001 he was awarded the most prestigious Polish literary prize, Nike . In his precisely described, linguistically elaborated works, aspects of the comedy, the exaggeration and the grotesque are not missing, not least in the description of his homeland, the Cieszyn Silesia and the Protestant minority milieu (the city of Wisła itself is the only city in Poland with a Protestant majority), to which he also belonged.
Works (selection)
- Wyznania twórcy pokątnej literatury erotycznej (1988)
- Spis cudzołożnic. Proza podróżna (1993)
- Rozpacz z powodu utraty furmanki (1994)
- Monologue z lisiej jamy (1996)
- Tezy o głupocie, piciu i umieraniu (1997)
- Tysiąc spokojnych miast (German: A Thousand Silent Cities , 1997)
- Bezpowrotnie utracona leworęczność (1998)
- Opowieści wigilijne (2000), book of stories, edited with Olga Tokarczuk and Andrzej Stasiuk
- Pod Mocnym Aniołem (2000) (German: To the strong angel . Luchterhand, Munich 2002, ISBN 3630871313 )
- Inne rozkosze (2000) (German: Other lusts . People and world, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3353011447 )
- Upadek człowieka pod Dworcem Centralnym (2002)
- Miasto utrapienia (2004) (German: The talents and obsessions of Patryk W. , German paperback publisher, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-24662-0 )
- Narty Ojca Świętego (2004)
- Moje pierwsze samobójstwo ( Eng .: my first suicide , 2006)
- Pociąg do życia wiecznego (2008), collection of columnar articles
- Marsz Polonia (2008)
- Sobowtór zięcia Tołstoja (2010)
- Dziennik (2012)
- Wiele demonów (2013)
Web links
- Literature by and about Jerzy Pilch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jerzy Pilch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Polish Culture: Jerzy Pilch
- Short biography and reviews of works by Jerzy Pilch at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michał Noga: Never żyje Jerzy Pilch. Pisarz, laureat Nagrody Literackiej "Nike", miał 67 lat. May 29, 2020, accessed on May 29, 2020 (Polish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pilch, Jerzy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wisła |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 2020 |
| Place of death | Kielce |