Wojciech Jagielski

Wojciech Jagielski (2017)

Wojciech Jagielski (born September 12, 1960 in Goworowo ) is a Polish writer and journalist .

Life

Jagielski attended high school in Warsaw and then studied political science at the University of Warsaw . After martial law was declared , he switched to African studies . In December 1986 he started working for the Polska Agencja Prasowa and in 1989 was sent to Moscow for a three-month internship . In 1991 he moved to Gazeta Wyborcza . He wrote for this newspaper as a specialist for Africa , the Caucasus and Central Asia until 2012. Since 2017 he has been working for the newspaper Tygodnik Powszechny .

Publications

• Dobre miejsce do umierania , 1994
• Modlitwa o deszcz , 2002
• Wieże z kamienia , 2004
• Nocni wędrowcy , 2009
  • Night Walkers , 2010
• Wypalanie traw , 2012
• Trębacz z Tembisy , 2013
• Wszystkie wojny Lary , 2015

Awards and nominations

• 2010: Nomination for the Nike Literature Prize with Nocni wędrowcy
• 2014: Order of Knights Polonia Restituta

Web links

• Bartosz Marzec: Wojciech Jagielski. In: culture.pl . July 2010, accessed on February 26, 2019 (Polish, last update: July 2016). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Jestem zawodowym szczęściarzem”. Wojciech Jagielski dołącza do zespołu "Tygodnika Powszechnego". In: Tygodnik Powszechny . September 1, 2017, accessed on February 26, 2019 (Polish, last updated July 2016).