Marcin Szczygielski

Marcin Szczygielski (2017)

Marcin Szczygielski (born May 28, 1972 in Warsaw ) is a Polish writer , journalist , graphic artist and member of the Polish Writers' Association .

life and work

He made his debut in 2003 with a satirical novel entitled PL-BOY , in which the author described his six years of experience working on the editorial board of the Polish edition of Playboy , where he was artistic director. This book quickly became a bestseller, much like the sequel, Wiosna PL-BOYa, published a year later .

Other novels such as Nasturcje i ćwoki and Farfocle namiętności have cemented his rank as a popular author. Berek attracted the greatest media attention in Poland . This story of the neighboring war between a young gay and an older, ultra-conservative Catholic woman became a bestseller in a flash. A year later, Szczygielski adapted this book for the stage. This adaptation has been performed successfully in the Warsaw Kwadrat Theater for more than six years ( Berek was performed for the 500th time in 2015 ). In 2010 the novel Bierki was published - the second volume of the Kroniki Nierówności cycle , which began with Berek . Next, in 2011 , Szczygielski published Poczet Królowych polskich . This story about women from three generations of the Król family was inspired by the life of Ina Benita, the Polish film star of the 1930s . Poczet Królowych polskich was nominated for the Srebrny Kałamarz Literature Prize in 2012 .

In 2014 the horror novel Sanato was published, which tells about events that took place in a sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers in Zakopane in 1931 .

In 2013 the publishers Agora SA , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik and Oficyna Wydawnicza As published a monograph entitled Filipinki - to my! By Marcin Szczygielski . Ilustrowana historia pierwszego polskiego girlsbandu published. This is a comprehensive publication about the first Polish girl band Filipinki . This monograph contains more than 500 photos, 300 press articles and a CD with 24 previously unpublished songs by the band. It is a particularly important publication for Szczygielski - his mother Iwona Racz-Szczygielska was one of the singers in the Filipinki group for 12 years , the most famous Polish youth band of the 1960s in the GDR , the Soviet Union and Poland.

The separate field of activity of Marcin Szczygielski 's literary work includes children's and youth literature . His first children's and youth book was the science-fiction novel Omega , published in 2009 , for which Szczygielski won the main prize in the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) literary competition and IBBY's Book of the Year award in 2010. The author wrote his next novel, Czarny Młyn , in 2010 for the Astrid Lindgren Competition. The jury chose the book as the best of 580 anonymously submitted proposals. Szczygielski was awarded the Grand Prix and first prize in the children's novel category for children between the ages of ten and fourteen. In the same year another novel was published for the young reader Za niebieskimi drzwiami , which won the 2011 Dong Literature Prize (formerly Children's Best Seller of the Year ), awarded by IBBY. Fragments of this novel were published in 2013 in the textbooks for the Polish language Między nami , among others. A for the 5th grade of elementary school. Similar to Czarny Młyn , this book was included in the secondary catalog of school readings and filmed in 2014. The film Za niebieskimi drzwiami , directed by Mariusz Paleja, with Ewa Błaszczyk, Teresa Lipowska and Michał Żebrowski will be released in 2015/2016. With Arka Czasu (in the German translation by Thomas Weiler: Flügel aus Papier , Sauerländer 2014), Szczygielski again anonymously participated in another edition of the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2013. Once again, the jury recognized the novel as the best among those submitted. The author was awarded the Grand Prix and first prize in the same age category as two years earlier. This novel also won first prize in the Halina Skrobiszewska children's literature competition and - like Omega and Za niebieskimi drzwiami - was included in the children's book museum's treasure list. In 2013 the novel Czarownica piętro niżej was published and in 2014 it won the Zielona Gąska literary prize - awarded by the Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski Foundation. In 2014 bookstores continued the adventures of Maja - the protagonist of the novels Czarownica piętro niżej and Tuczarnia motyli .

Marcin Szczygielski's plays are an integral part of the repertoire of many private and municipal theaters across Poland.

Szczygielski worked as a graphic artist with magazines such as Playboy , Voyage , Pani , Newsweek Polska and Nowa Fantastyka . Since his debut as a writer, he has also been responsible for the image design in his publishing house Oficyna Wydawnicza AS , as well as in the publishing house Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik , where he is the artistic director. He is the designer of most of the book covers and the graphic designer of most of his books.

Works

For adult readers:

• PL-BOY , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2003, ISBN 83-917891-1-X
• Wiosna PL-BOYa , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2004, ISBN 83-91789-1-52
• Kuchnia na ciezkie czasy (cookbook), Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2004, ISBN 978-83-60000-48-9
• Nasturcje i Cwoki , Instytut Wydawniczy Latanik 2005, ISBN 83-60000-03-4
• Farfocle namietnosci , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2006, ISBN 978-83-60000-36-6
• Berek / day , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2007, ISBN 978-83-63841-15-7
• Bierki , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2010, ISBN 978-83-63841-29-4
• Furie i inne groteski (comedies), Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2011, ISBN 978-83-60000-68-7
• Poczet Krolowych Polskich / The Queens Saga , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2011, ISBN 978-83-60000-79-3
• Kallas (plays), Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2011, ISBN 978-83-60000-95-3
• Filipinki - to my! Ilustrowana historia pierwszego polskiego girlsbandu (monograph), Agora SA 2013, ISBN 978-83-2681-277-4
• Sanato , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63841-27-0
• Bingo , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik 2015, ISBN 978-83-63841-30-0

For young readers:

• Omega , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik, 2009, ISBN 978-83-60000-32-8
• Za niebieskimi drzwiami , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik, 2010, ISBN 978-83-63841-20-1
  • Behind the blue door . Translation Thomas Weiler. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7373-5372-4
• Czarny Mlyn / The Black Mill , Stentor 2011, ISBN 978-83-61245-64-3
• Czarownica pietro nizej / The Which Downstairs , Bajka, 2013, ISBN 978-83-61824-58-9
• Arka Czasu . Stentor, 2013, ISBN 978-83-6346-215-4
  • Paper wings . Translation Thomas Weiler, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7373-5212-3
  • Ковчег часу . Translation Bożena Antoniak, Lviv  : Urbino, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7373-5372-4
• Tuczarnia motyli / The Swinery of Butterflies , Bajka, 2014, ISBN 978-83-6182-478-7
• Teatr Niewidzialnych Dzieci , Instytut Wydawniczy Latarnik, 2016, ISBN 978-83-63841-38-6
• Klątwa dziewiątych urodzin , Bajka, 2016, ISBN 978-83-65479-05-1

Plays:

• Berek, czyli upior w moherze . Premiere: Warsaw (2009)
• Wydmuszka . Premieres: Warsaw (2010); Plock (2011); Łódź (2011); Kraków (2014)
• Fury . Premiere: Warsaw (2011)
• Kallas . Premiere: Warsaw (2012)
• Single i Remiksy . Premiere: Warsaw (2012)
• Kochanie na kredyt . Premiere: London (2013)

Prizes and awards

• 2010: Award in the Halina Skrobiszewska children's literature competition for the novel Omega . The book was included in the children's book museum's treasure list.
• 2010: Award for Omega in the 50th Best Book Competition 2009, organized by the Association of Polish Publishers.
• 2010: Grand Prix of the second edition of the Astrid Lindgren Prize, in the children's and youth book category for the novel Czarny młyn .
• 2010: First prize of the second edition of the Astrid Lindgren Prize, in the children's novel for children from ten to fourteen years old category, for the book Czarny młyn .
• 2010: Book of the year award for the adventure novel Omega in the literary competition of the Polish section of the International Board of Trustees for Children's Books (IBBY).
• 2011: Big dong for the novel Za niebieskimi drzwiami - first prize of the expert jury in the dong competition (formerly children's bestseller of the year ), organized by the Polish section IBBY - the International Board of Trustees for Young People's Books.
• 2011: Award of the children's jury for the novel Za niebieskimi drzwiami in the Dong competition (formerly children's bestseller of the year ) organized by the Polish section IBBY - the International Board of Trustees for Children's Books.
• 2011: Second prize in the third edition of the Halina Skrobiszewska children's literature competition for the novel Za niebieskimi drzwiami . The book was included in the children's book museum's treasure list.
• 2012: The novel Za niebieskimi drzwiami was included in IBBY's international honor list, which includes the best contemporary children's books of the past year. 
• 2013: Grand Prix of the third edition of the Astrid Lindgren Literature Prize, in the category of contemporary children's and young people's books, for the novel Arka czasu ( wings made of paper ).
• 2013: First prize of the third edition of the Astrid Lindgren Literature Prize, in the children's novel for children from ten to fourteen years old, for the novel Arka czasu ( wings made of paper ).
• 2013: Award “Book of the Year 2013” ​​for the novel Czarownica piętro niżej, awarded by Magazyn Literacki Książki.
• 2013: Award for Arka czasu ( wings made of paper ) in the literary competition Book of the Year 2013 , organized by the Polish section IBBY - the International Board of Trustees for Children's Books.
• 2014: Zielona Gąska Literature Prize 2013 of the Ildefons Galczynski Foundation Zielona Gęś for Czarownica piętro niżej .
• 2014: First prize in the sixth edition of the Halina Skrobiszewska children's literature competition for Arka czasu ( wings made of paper ). The book was included in the children's book museum's treasure list.
• 2014: Literature Prize Guliwer w krainie Olbrzymów 2014 for the entire work in the field of children's and youth literature.
• 2015: A jury made up of 29 jurors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland selects paper wings for one of the best seven books for young readers in April 2015.
• 2015: Book of the Month July 2015 - Wings made of paper , German Academy for Children's and Young People's Literature.
• 2015: First prize in the eighth edition of the Halina Skrobiszewska children's literature competition for Tuczarnia motyli . The book was included in the children's book museum's treasure list.
• 2015: Children's book award 2015 of the jury of the young readers (10/11 years) - wings made of paper .
• 2016: First prize in the fourth edition of the Astrid Lindgren Literature Prize, in the category of contemporary children's and young people's books, for the novel Teatr Niewidzialnych Dzieci .

Web links

Commons : Marcin Szczygielski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Marcin Szczygielski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marcin Szczygielski in the Association of Polish Writers
• Marcin Szczygielski in the Free Library
• Ghetto thriller and concentration camp romance in Die Zeit by Christian Staas, 10/2015
• By time machine from the ghetto to Die Welt , April 4, 2015
• Rafal, the time traveler in Süddeutsche Zeitung by Hilde Elisabeth Menzel, April 3, 2015
• Marcin Szczygielski: Wings made of paper. A journey through time as an escape from the ghetto in the Berliner Zeitung by Cornelia Geißler, March 13, 2015
• The memory is a time machine in Tages-Anzeiger by Christine Lötscher, 23 March 2015
• The next hour and the future in Frankfurter Rundschau by Cornelia Geißler, March 30, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Omega . The Polish Book Institute.
2. ↑ Books awarded in the 2nd Astrid Lindgren Memorial Literary Competition for Contemporary Books for Children and Adolescents . ABCXXI Foundation.
3. ^ Marcin Szczygielski Ark of Time . Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute .
4. ^ Presentation of winning books in the Third Astrid Lindgren Memorial Literary Competition for Contemporary Books for Children and Adolescents . ABCXXI Foundation. Archived from the original on February 24, 2015.
5. ↑ Olaf Lubaszenko's play in London ( Memento from February 24, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ↑ The IBBY Honor List 2012 . IBBY .
7. ↑ Nagrody Guliwera . Silesian Library .
8. ↑ Top 7 Books for Young Readers in April . Deutschlandfunk .
9. ↑ WBuch July 2015 of the month . German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature .
10. ↑ Children's Book Prize 2015 of the Young Readers Jury . DBV commission for children's and youth libraries.
11. ↑ Wyniki IV Konkursu Literackiego in. Astrid Lindgren na współczesną książkę dla dzieci i młodzieży . Cała Polska Czyta Dzieciom.