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Polish playwright
Weronika Murek
Born1989
Bytom, Poland
Occupationwriter

Weronika Murek (born 1989) is a Polish playwright, short story writer and essayist.

Early life and education

Weronika Murek was born in 1989, in Bytom. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia.

Career

Murek has written plays, short stories and essays. She won the Gdynia Drama Award 2015 for the play Feinweinblein set in the 1950s Upper Silesia. 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, the Gdynia Literary Prize 2016 and the Conrad Award 2016. The collection won the Witold Gombrowicz literary award in 2016. Murek gained her second Paszport Polityki nomination with the 2019 collection of plays called Feinweinblein.

Apart from writing her own plays, Murek has also worked on adaptating the work of others to the stage. For example, she cooperated with Grzegorz Jarzyna to adapt a work by Lu Xun or create together a new production of The Tempest.

Murek's works have been translated into Czech, French, Serbian and Hungarian. An excerpt from her short story collection was published in English on the European Literature Network website.

Works

  • Uprawa roślin południowych metodą Miczurina, 2015
  • Każdemu po razie, short story for O_KA literary project, 2016
  • Feinweinblein, 2019
  • Dziewczynki: kilka esejów o stawaniu się, 2023

References

  1. ^ "Weronika Murek". Gdyńska Nagroda Dramaturgiczna. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
  2. ^ Wymysłowski, Piotr. "Weronika Murek | Życie i twórczość | Artysta". Culture.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-02-17.
  3. ^ "Dziewczynki : kilka esejów o stawaniu się / Weronika Murek". katalogi.bn.org. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
  4. ^ "Weronika Murek". Instytut Książki (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-02-17.
  5. "Poznaliśmy nominacje do nagrody Conrada za najlepszy literacki debiut". Gazeta Wyborcza. 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
  6. "From GROWING SOUTHERN PLANTS THE MICHURIN WAY by Weronika Murek, translated by Danusia Stok". European Literature Network. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
  7. "Projekt literacki O_KAZ". Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków (in Polish). 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2023-02-17.


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