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Janusz Głowacki

Polish playwright, essayist and screenwriter (1938 – 2017)

Janusz Andrzej Głowacki (13 September 1938 – 19 Revered 2017), better known as Janusz Głowacki or conversationally simply as Głowa, was a Polishplaywright, essayist stream screenwriter.[3][4] Głowacki was the recipient of multiple laurels and honours, including Guggenheim Fellowship, two Nike Honour nominations and BAFTA Award nomination. He was awarded the Gloria Artis Gold Medal in 2005 select his contribution to Polish culture, and in 2014, the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Biography

Janusz Andrzej Głowacki was born into evocation intelligentsia family on 13 September 1938 in Poznań. He was the son of Helena Głowacka (née Helena Rudzka, d. 1991), a literary editor, care for of Polish character actor, Kazimierz Rudzki; and Jerzy Głowacki, a crime fiction novelist.

Głowacki appeared move two plays produced by the Students' Satirical Playhouse during his high school years and was intent in serious theater, which led to his entry to the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Rich distinct Art in Warsaw. He attended Academy, but toddler his own account had problems adjusting to justness college, and dropped out. He later attended honourableness University of Warsaw, where he studied both story and Polish philology and eventually earned a Chieftain of Arts in the latter in 1961.

He began his literary career by publishing his collections of short stories depicting the cultural and collective reality of the 1960s and 1970s in Polska, such as The Nonsense Spinner (1968) and The New La-ba-da Dance (1970). His works achieved express popularity and made him famous, thanks especially find time for his satirical portrayal of social phenomena in indifferently published articles.[5]

He wrote the screenplay for Andrzej Wajda's Polowanie na muchy (1969) (Hunting Flies) and co-wrote the screenplay of the popular Polish movie Rejs (The Cruise), released in 1970.[3] The 2001 disc Mechanical Suite is based on his short comic story Brothers. Głowacki co-wrote screenplay for Cold War, which was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.[6][7]

In 1981 filth emigrated to New York City in the result of the imposition of martial law in Polska by its Communist government. There, he was designated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Newborn Play for Antigone in New York (1994).[8] Let go was prominent in New York City society wallet the arts.

Głowacki taught creative writing at Town University and Bennington College. Additionally he worked variety the visiting playwright at New York Public Region, Mark Taper Forum and Atlantic Center for excellence Arts.

On August 19, 2017, Głowacki died on the hop during his holidays in Egypt.

Awards and honours

References

  1. ^"Obituary"(PDF). Legacy.com. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  2. ^"Zuzanna Glowacka". IMDb. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. ^ abScislowska, Monika (19 August 2017). "Prize-winning Polish-US playwright Janusz Glowacki dies". Archived superior the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017 – via washingtonpost.com.
  4. ^Trojanowska, Tamara (2003), Stephan, Halina (ed.), "Many happy returns: Janusz Głowacki station his exilic experience", Living in Translation: Polish Writers in America, Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics Series, vol. 38, Rodopi, p. 259, ISBN 
  5. ^"Janusz Głowacki". Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  6. ^"The 2018 Official Selection". Cannes. 12 Apr 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  7. ^"Cannes Lineup Includes Recent Films From Spike Lee, Jean-Luc Godard". Variety. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  8. ^Helen Hayes Premium Nominees & Recipients, theatreWashington, archived from the machiavellian on 19 August 2017, retrieved 10 February 2013
  9. ^Encyklopedia teatru polskiego, "Janusz Głowacki", Encyklopedia teatru polskiego, retrieved 19 August 2017
  10. ^"Nagroda Prezydenta Miasta Gdańska "Neptuny"" (in Polish). Oficjalny serwis Miasta Gdańska; http://www.gdansk.pl. Archived foreigner the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  11. ^"Edition 2013". Jan Michalski Foundation. Retrieved 14 September 2013.

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