Joanna Olczak-Ronikier
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1934-11-12
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Poland
- Luogo di nascita
- Warsaw, Poland
- Luogo di residenza
- Warsaw, Poland
- Attività lavorative
- screenwriter
biographer
memoirist
playwright - Relazioni
- Mortkowicz-Olczakowa, Hanna (mother)
Mortkowicz, Janina (grandmother)
Zimmerer, Katarzyna (daughter) - Breve biografia
- Joanna Olczak was born in Warsaw to a prominent Polish-Jewish family. Her parents were writer Hanna Mortkowicz-Olczakowa and her husband Tadeusz Olczak. Her maternal grandmother Janina Mortkowicz also was a writer. Joanna has written numerous plays and screenplays, including Ja-Napoleon, produced by the Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw in 1968. She won the 2002 Nike Award and the 2011 Premio Acerbi Prize for her bestselling memoir of her remarkable family, W ogrodzie pamięci (In the Garden of Memory, 2001). Following in the footsteps of her mother, she wrote a biography of Janusz Korczak, pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, the Polish Jewish educator, physician, and children's author killed in the Holocaust. She also wrote a biography of poet Peter Skrzynecki. Joanna married Ludwig Zimmerer, a German journalist, with whom she had a daughter, Katarzyna Zimmerer, also a writer. Her second husband is Michał Ronikier, a Polish translator.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 62
- Popolarità
- #271,094
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 13
- Lingue
- 5
In the times before the Second World War, the main setting for the story is Warsaw, even though the whole family lived in different parts of Europe, many studied in Vienna, or Paris, and a whole branch fell in love with communism and ended up in the newly born Soviet Union.
During the Second World War, they were scattered into different parts of the world. Most of them avoided the German concentration camps, but some suffered in the Stalin’s.
Highly recommended.
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