Wojciech Albiński

Wojciech Albiński with the pseudonym Jan Warski (born January 27, 1935 in Włochy , today Warsaw ; † July 6, 2015 in Warsaw) was a Polish writer who lived in South Africa .

Life

Albiński was born on January 27, 1935 in Warsaw, the son of the lawyer Wacław Albiński. He spent his childhood in Włochy and attended high school in Warsaw. After graduating from high school, Albiński studied geodesy at the Warsaw Polytechnic .

In 1956 Albiński made his debut with the poems Jak łatwo oszaleć and Mała dziewczynka śpi . In 1958 Albiński received his diploma and initially worked in Poland as a geodet. In 1959 he married the chemist Wanda Rowińska, with whom he had two sons. In 1960 he worked in Iraq for nine months .

In April 1963 he left Poland and traveled via Paris to Geneva , where he had a job in his field until 1969, to Botswana and finally to South Africa. Since the late 1970s he lived in Botswana and South Africa.

After 1990 he began to visit Poland and lived in Johannesburg and Warsaw in the following years .

In 2003 he published his first novel Kalahari at the age of 68. For this work he received the Polish Mackiewicz Literature Prize in 2004 and was nominated for the Nike Literature Prize.

Albiński died on July 6, 2015 in Warsaw, where he was buried on the Cmentarz Powązki.

Works

• Kalahari (2003)
• Królestwo potrzebuje kata (German roughly: "Kingdom needs executioners", 2004)
• Antylopa szuka myśliwego (German approximately: "Antilope sucht Jäger", 2006)
• Lidia z Cameroon (German: "Lydia from Cameroon", 2007)
• Attention! Bandits! (2009)
• Soweto - my love (2012)

Web links

• Alicja Szałagan: Wojciech Albiński. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. Retrieved April 17, 2018 (Polish). 
• Wojciech Albiński - biography. In: Czuły Barbarzyńca. Archived from the original on June 2, 2009 ; Retrieved July 16, 2015 (Polish).