Jacek Dukaj

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Jacek Dukaj (2009)

Jacek Dukaj (* thirtieth July 1974 in Tarnow , Poland ) is a Polish science fiction - and fantasy - writer .

Life

He studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University . He made his literary debut at the age of 16 with the short story Złota galera ( The Golden Galley ), published in Fantastyka magazine in 1990 . He was nominated nine times for the Janusz A. Zajdel Prize . He won it in 2000 for the story Katedra ( Cathedral ), in 2001 with the novel Czarne oceany ( Black Oceans ) and in 2003 for Inne pieśni ( Other songs ). The digitally animated film adaptation of Katedra by Tomasz Bagiński was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 . In 2008 Dukaj received the Kościelski Prize for the novel Lód , and in 2009 the European Union Prize for Literature for the same novel .

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Dukaj's works have been translated from Polish into Russian , Czech , English and Hungarian .

A special place in Dukaj's work is the symbolic-fantastic novel Wroniec (made-up word, German for example Der Krähenmann ) , published in 2009 . The novel portrays the experiences and trauma of a child during and shortly after the imposition of martial law in the People's Republic of Poland in December 1981. In short, dream sequences not dissimilar to flashbacks, sometimes deliberately in the style of fairy tales, the violence of the police state with ruthlessly brutal special task forces and omnipresent informers. Faced with the brutal, impoverished, colorless world of a large Polish city and the brutality of the unjust state of the early 1980s, the little boy withdraws into his dream world and, with the help of the resistance fighters, frees his family members who had been kidnapped by the state security. The title figure Krähenmann symbolically embodies the military junta of General Wojciech Jaruzelski , who, after its name Wojskowa Rada Ocalenia Narodowego (Military Councilor of National Salvation), was popularly abbreviated as "Wrona" (German: Krähe ). The novel moves stylistically between allegorical prose miniatures in the style of Zbigniew Herbert's Mr. Cogito , the South American prose of magical realism and a metaphorical-lyrical narrative style in the style of Michael Ende . In view of the numerous allusions to the language used by the People's Republic of Poland at the time , the novel can hardly be translated into other languages.

His novel Starość aksolotla , published in 2015, was adapted in 2020 by the Belgian Netflix series Into the Night .

bibliography

Collected stories

Jacek Dukaj (2003)
  • W kraju niewiernych (SuperNOWA 2000 ), short stories:
    • Ruch Generała
    • IACTE
    • Hairs
    • Muchobójca
    • Ziemia Chrystusa
    • Catedra
    • Medjugorje
    • In partibus infidelium
  • Xavras Wyżryn i inne fikcje narodowe
    • Xavras Wyżryn
    • Sprawa Rudryka Z.
    • Przyjaciel prawdy
    • Gotyk

Novels

stories

  • Złota Galera
  • Smierć matadora
  • Opętani ( Fenix 1/1991)
  • Książę mroku musi umrzeć
  • Korporacja Mesjasz
  • Panie, pobłogosław morderców ( Fenix 2/1993)
  • Wszystkie nasze ciemne sprawy ( Voyager # 6)
  • Irrehaare ( Nowa Fantastyka 6,7 / 1995, collection of stories W kraju niewiernych )
  • Wielkie podzielenie ( Nowa Fantastyka 3/1996)
  • Szkoła ( Nowa Fantastyka 11/1996, collection of short stories Król Bólu )
  • Ziemia Chrystusa (Antologie Wizje alternatywne 2 , Zysk i S-ka 1997, volume of short stories W kraju niewiernych )
  • IACTE (Antologie Wizje alternatywne 2 , Zysk i S-ka 1997, collection of short stories W kraju niewiernych )
  • Ponieważ kot (Antologie Trzynaście kotów )
  • Serce Mroku ( Nowa Fantastyka 11/1998, Król Bólu short story collection )
  • Ruch Generała (collection of stories by W kraju niewiernych )
  • Muchobójca (collection of stories W kraju niewiernych )
  • Katedra (collection of stories W kraju niewiernych , album Katedra , czeskie czasopismo Ikarie 11/2002)
  • Medjugorje (collection of stories by W kraju niewiernych )
  • In partibus infidelium (collection of stories by W kraju niewiernych )
  • W bibliotece ( Srebrny Glob 08/08/2000)
  • Sierpniowa noc (unpublished, read on the author's website)
  • Gotyk (Anthology Strefa Mroku , Xavras Wyżryn i inne fikcje narodowe collection )
  • Sprawa Rudryka Z. ( Xavras Wyżryn i inne fikcje narodowe collection )
  • Przyjaciel prawdy (zbiór Xavras Wyżryn i inne fikcje narodowe )
  • Crux (Antologie PL + 50.History przyszłości , Wydawnictwo Literackie 2004)

Web links

Commons : Jacek Dukaj  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Netflix Announces the First Belgian Original Series - Into the Night. In: Netflix. September 3, 2019, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dukaj, Jacek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnów