Maciej Hen

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Maciej Hen
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Born (1955-06-13) 13 June 1955 (age 70)
Warsaw, Poland
Nationality Polish
OccupationWriter

Maciej Hen (born 13 June 1955 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer, translator and journalist.

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Life

Maciej Hen is a son of a Polish writer Józef Hen and the late pedagogue and Russian teacher Irena Lebewal from Navariya near Lvov. Both of his parents are of Jewish origin. He attended (but in 1974 left just before the final examination) The National Art High School in Warsaw and in 1979 he completed his studies at the cinematography department of the National Film School in Łódź. On various occasions he worked as a camera operator, a director of photography and a director of documentary films, a still photographer and a photojournalist, a screenwriter, an actor, a journalist, a musician, an English translator and a TV lighting designer. As a journalist he published articles among others in the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

Career

In 2004, under the pen name Maciej Nawariak, he published his first novel According to Her. In 2015 his second historical novel, Solfatara, appeared and next year it was awarded The Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize [1] and the title of Book of the Year of the Warsaw Premiere of Literature, as well as shortlisted for Angelus Award. In 2019, Hen's third novel, Deutsch for Intermediates, was published by Wydawnictwo Literackie.

Awards

Books

(Polish edition Według niej. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Due. 2004 ISBN   83-920561-0-8. Under the pen name Maciej Nawariak)

Filmography

References

  1. "Prize : Gombrowicz". muzeumgombrowicza.pl. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  2. EBRD Literature Prize 2023: shortlist announcement
  3. "Finał "Angelusa" – Solfatara". angelus.com.pl. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  4. Senior, Antonia (7 July 2023). "The latest historical fiction for October 2022 — the first black Briton to vote in a general election". ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  5. "A meeting with Maciej Hen about his new novel. – Jan Karski Society". en.jankarski.org.pl. 12 October 2019. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2019.