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Weronika Murek (born 1989) is a Polish playwright, short story writer and essayist.
Weronika Murek | |
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| Born | 1989 Bytom, Poland |
| Occupation | writer |
Weronika Murek (born 1989) is a Polish playwright, short story writer and essayist.
Weronika Murek was born in 1989, in Bytom. [1] She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia. [1]
Murek has written plays, short stories [2] and essays. [3] She won the Gdynia Drama Award 2015 for the play Feinweinblein set in the 1950s Upper Silesia. [1] Her debut collection of short stories Uprawa roślin południowych metodą Miczurina was nominated for the Paszport Polityki 2015 in the literature category, the Nike Award 2016, [4] the Gdynia Literary Prize 2016 [4] and the Conrad Award 2016. [5] The collection won the Witold Gombrowicz literary award in 2016. [4] Murek gained her second Paszport Polityki nomination with the 2019 collection of plays called Feinweinblein. [2]
Apart from writing her own plays, Murek has also worked on adaptating the work of others to the stage. [2] For example, she cooperated with Grzegorz Jarzyna to adapt a work by Lu Xun or create together a new production of The Tempest . [2]
Murek's works have been translated into Czech, French, Serbian and Hungarian. [4] An excerpt from her short story collection was published in English on the European Literature Network website. [6]
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