Szczepan Twardoch

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Szczepan Twardoch (2012)

Szczepan Twardoch (born December 23, 1979 in Pilchowice ) is a Polish writer.

Life

Twardoch's ancestors can be traced back to Upper Silesia for 350 years . He himself was born in Żernica, a district of the Pilchowice municipality in the west of today's Silesian Voivodeship and studied sociology and philosophy at the Silesian University in Katowice after graduating from high school .

Twardoch has published several novels and achieved a breakthrough among Polish readers with Morfina in 2012. In 2012 he received the “Paszport Polityki” literary award , the “Nike” audience award in 2013 and the Kościelski award in 2015 . In 2016 his novel Drach and its translation by Olaf Kühl were awarded the “Brücke Berlin” literature and translation prize. In 2019 Szczepan Twardoch received the Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize .

For the novel The Boxer , set in Warsaw in the interwar years , he asked the Yiddish expert Ewa Geller for help with his research .

Twardoch counts himself to the minority of the (Polish) Silesians and cultivates the Silesian language in his family . The novel Drach will also appear in a Silesian translation in 2018, although the written language has not yet been standardized.

He is married with two sons and lives in Pilchowice, as well as one week a month in his second home in Warsaw . According to the taz , he is "the most famous contemporary writer in his country". He also owes his popularity in Poland to the fact that he was the face of a Mercedes-Benz advertising campaign.

Works (selection)

  • Jak nie zostałem poetą , Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2019.
  • Król . Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie 2017.
  • Lepiej byś tam umarł . Conversation with Mamed Khalidov . MCAS, 2017
  • Wieloryby i ćmy . Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie 2015.
  • Dragon . Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie 2014.
  • Morfina . Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2012.
  • Tak jest dobrze . Warsaw: Powergraph, 2011.
  • Wieczny Grunwald, powieść zza końca czasów . Warsaw: Narodowe Centrum Kultury, 2010.
  • Epifania wikarego Trzaski . Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 2007.

Web links

Commons : Szczepan Twardoch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Richard Kämmerlings : "Violence is nothing exotic" , Interview, in: Die Literäre Welt , February 3, 2018, p. 27
  2. ^ The language in me , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 2, 2014, p. 31
  3. ↑ Szczepan Twardoch , from Rowohlt, accessed February 13, 2020
  4. ↑ Ewa Geller: Warsaw Yiddish . Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2001 ISBN 3-484-23146-7
  5. ↑ Szczepan Twardoch in conversation with Dagmar Kaindl , buchkultur.net from February 7, 2020, accessed February 13, 2020
  6. ↑ taz, 17./18. February 2018, p. 12.
  7. ↑ taz, 17./18. February 2018, p. 12.
  8. ↑ Paul Jandl : Only the earth was a witness . Review, in: The Literary World , May 21, 2016, p. 2
  9. ↑ Jens Bisky : I am not just anyone . Review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 2, 2014, p. 17
personal data
SURNAME Twardoch, Szczepan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish author
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd December 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Żernica , Pilchowice Municipality , Poland