Marta Kijowska

Marta Kijowska (born 1955 in Krakow , People's Republic of Poland ) is a Polish journalist who lives in Germany and writes in German and Polish. Also works as a translator.

Life

Marta Kijowska studied German in Cracow and since 1979 in Munich . After completing her studies, she worked in Munich as an editor at Kindler's Literature Lexicon . Since then she has written a number of books as a publicist and worked as a translator and journalist. She wrote monographs on Andrzej Szczypiorski , Stanisław Jerzy Lec and Jan Karski and a short biography on Sławomir Mrożek , she translated a. a. Zofia Chądzyńska into German.

In 1989 she received the Austrian translation prize for young people's books , and in 2005 she received a grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation , with which she wrote her literary travel book to Poland, published in 2007.

Fonts (selection)

• What's wrong with the Poles? Portrait of a contradicting nation . Munich: dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-26214-9
• Courier of memory: the life of Jan Karski . Munich: Beck, 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66073-3 .
• The ink is an explosive: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec - the master of straight thinking . Munich: Hanser, 2009.
• "Poland, that means nowhere": a foray through Poland's literary landscapes . Munich: Beck, 2007.
• Krakow: Walking Tour of a Poet City . Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005.
• The last righteous: Andrzej Szczypiorski: a biography . Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 2003.

Web links

• Literature by and about Marta Kijowska in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Marta Kijowska in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Marta Kijowska at perlentaucher.de
• Marta Kijowska , at Bosch Foundation
• Marta Kijowska , at Hanser's
• Marta Kijowska , Baza osób polskich - Polish personal database