Witold Wedecki

Witold Wedecki (born November 30, 1944 in Vilnius ) is a Polish prose writer .

Life

Wedecki and his family were deported to Siberia by the Soviet powers during the Second World War . He attended the cadet school in Baku . At the end of the 1950s, he and his mother moved to Silesia as part of the resettlement , where he settled in Gliwice . After graduating from high school, he began studying architecture at Politechnika Śląska , which he completed with a diploma. In the following years he worked as an architect. As a writer he made his debut in 1965 with the poem Martwa natura , which was published in the weekly magazine Odgłosy . From 1986 to 1989 he published some short stories in the weekly magazine Tak i nie . In 1996 he published his first novel.

He lives in Gliwice.

Publications

• Uczty , 1971
• Bielsze od czerni , 1996
• Wejście i wyjście , 2000
• Klęski i nadzieje , 2001
• Wolni. Witraż , 2003
• Czarne rondo , 2006
• Romance. Witraż , 2007
• Drewniane kule. Witraż , 2010
• Gryps pod czerwoną blachą. Opowieść o Kresach, których już nie ma , 2012
• Pani Kazimiera , 2012
• Barbarzyńcy , 2013
• Oprychy. Witraż , 2014
• Mrok. Opowieść o Kresach, których już nie ma , 2015
• Wyspa-miejsce specjalne. Studenterskei balangi , 2015

Nominations

• 2007: Gdynia Literature Prize in the prose category for Czarne rondo

Web links

• Alicja Szałagan: Witold Wedecki. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. Retrieved October 2, 2018 (Polish).