Małgorzata Szejnert
Małgorzata Szejnert (born April 28, 1936 in Warsaw ) is a Polish journalist and columnist .
Life
Szejnert spent her early childhood in Sieradz and moved to Biała Podlaska with her parents in 1939 . There she attended the girls' high school from 1948 to 1953. After graduating from high school, she began studying journalism at Warsaw University in 1953 . As a student in 1956, she headed the cultural section of Horyzonty magazine . After finishing her studies in 1958, she worked for the courier Polski and then for the Tygodnik Demokratyczny . In the late 1970s she worked for the weekly magazine Literatura . In August 1980 she was co-author of the strike paper of the Szczecin shipyard . After martial law was declared in Poland , she lost her job with the magazine Literatura . In 1984 she went to New York and worked for the local newspaper Nowy Dziennik . In 1986 she returned to Poland and in 1989 co-founded Gazeta Wyborcza , where she was head of the reporting department for nearly 15 years. Since she retired in 2004, she has devoted herself mainly to writing.
She lives in Warsaw.
Publications
- Borowki przy ternpajku , 1972
- Ulica z latarnią , 1977
- I niespokojnie, tu i tam , 1980
- Szczecin: grudzień - sierpień - grudzień , 1984, together with Tomasz Zalewski
- Sława i infamia. Rozmowa z prof. Bohdanem Korzeniowskim , 1988
- Śród żywych duchów , 1990
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Czarny ogród , 2007
- The black garden , translated by Benjamin Voelkel , 2015
- Wyspa klucz , 2009
- Dom żółwia: Zanzibar , 2011
- My właściciele Teksasu. Reportaże z PRL-u , 2013
- Usypać góry. History z Polesia , 2015
Nominations and Awards
- 2008: Finalist of the Nike Literature Prize with Czarny ogród
- 2008: Nomination for the Gdynia Literature Prize in the prose category with Czarny ogród
- 2010: Individual prize of the Gdynia Literature Prize for Wyspa klucz
- 2014: Order of Officers Polonia Restituta
- 2015: Gloria Artis Silver Medal for Cultural Merit
- 2018: Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize together with Navid Kermani
Web links
- Maria Kotowska tile: Małgorzata Szejnert. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. Retrieved October 9, 2018 (Polish).
- Bartosz Marzec: Małgorzata Szejnert. In: culture.pl . October 2010, accessed October 3, 2018 (Polish, last updated October 2016).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szejnert, Małgorzata |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish journalist and columnist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |