Darek Foks

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Darek Foks, real name Dariusz Foks and pseudonym Bruno Kotilov (born July 27, 1966 in Skierniewice ), is a Polish poet , prose writer and screenwriter .

Life

Foks attended the Technical School of Construction in Skierniewice. After graduating from high school in 1986, he first studied Russian Philology and, after a year, Polish Philology at the Pedagogical University in Kielce , but he did not finish his studies. He made his debut in the 1980s with poems that were initially published under the pseudonym Bruno Kotilov in Radar and Okolice magazines.

In the 1990s he published his poems, short stories and reviews in the magazines Akcent , brulion , Nowy Nurt , Odra , Gazeta Forteczna and Studium, as well as in the Książki supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza . From 1993 to 1995 he did his alternative military service. From 1995 to 1996 he worked in the cultural center of the Voivodeship in Skierniewice, after which he studied at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theater Academy in Warsaw from 1996 to 1998 and also worked as the editorial secretary of the monthly magazine Literatura na Świecie . In 1998 he became a member of the Polish Writers' Association.

From 2002 to 2004 he was the chief editor of Aktivist and Exklusiv magazines , until 2004 when he took over the prose section of the Twórczość monthly . In 2004 he studied screenwriting at the State University of Film, Television and Theater Łódź , where he received his licentiate in 2007 . From 2005 to 2012 he was a literary reviewer for Playboy magazine .

In 2014 he was awarded the Silesius Wroclaw Poetry Prize for his oeuvre .

He lives in Skierniewice.

bibliography

Poetry

  • Film i inne wiersze z lat 1986–1988 , 1989
  • Wiersze , 1999
  • Wiersze o fryzjerach , 1994
  • Misterny tren , 1997
  • Ezra Pub , 1998
  • Sonet drogi , 2000 (nominated for the Paszport Polityki 2000)
  • Przecena map. Wiersze z lat 1987–1997 , 2005
  • Ustalenia z Maastricht , 2006
  • Sto najlepszych polskich reklam i jedna niemiecka , 2009
  • Sigmund Freud Museum , 2010 (nominated for the Wroclaw Poetry Prize Silesius 2011)
  • Liceum , 2012 (nominated for the Wroclaw Poetry Prize Silesius 2013)
  • Rozmowy z głuchym psem , 2013 (nominated for the Gdynia Literature Prize 2014 and the Nike Literature Prize 2014)
  • Debordaż , 2014
  • Tablet taty , 2015
  • Historia poezji polskiej dla drwali , 2015

prose

  • Orcio , 1998
  • Pizza weselna , 2000 (nominated for the Paszport Polityki 2000)
  • Mer Betlejem , 2003 (nominated for the Paszport Polityki 2004)
  • Co robi łączniczka? , 2005, together with Zbigniew Libera
  • Wielkanoc z tygrysem , 2008
  • Kebab Master , 2012 (nominated for the Gdynia Literature Prize 2013)
  • Susza , 2014
  • Historia kina polskiego , 2015
  • Wołyń Bourne'a , 2016

Scripts

  • Brzydula (episodes 11, 17, 24, 29, 36, 113, 118, 122 and 132), 2008–2009

Web links

  • Barbara Marzęcka: Darek Foks. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. March 6, 2018, Retrieved May 7, 2018 (Polish).
  • Dariusz Foks. In: culture.pl . September 2016, accessed on May 7, 2018 (Polish, last updated September 2016).
  • Darek Foks. In: poezjem.pl. Retrieved May 7, 2018 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Foks, Darek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foks, Dariusz (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish poet, prose writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Skierniewice , Poland