Jarosław Grzędowicz

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| caption = Grzędowicz at the 2014 Multigenre Fan Convention Pyrkon

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| birth_place = Wrocław, Poland

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Jarosław Grzędowicz (born 3 May 1965) is a Polish science-fiction and fantasy writer.{{cite news|url=http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1345,title,Kossakowska-i-Grzedowicz-laureatami-nagrod-im-Zajdla,wid,9169258,wiadomosc.html|title=Kossakowska i Grzędowicz laureatami nagród im. Zajdla|date=2 September 2007|work=Wirtualna Polska|language=Polish|accessdate=22 September 2011}}{{cite news|url=http://lublin.gazeta.pl/lublin/1,35640,5923532.html|title=Święto fantastyki w Lublinie. Falkon zacząć|date=13 November 2008|work=Agora SA|language=Polish|accessdate=22 September 2011}} His first published piece was a short story in 1982. He was one of the founders of Fenix magazine in 1990 and its chief editor from 1993 till its suspension in 2001. In the meantime he has published several short stories and translated several comic books. He has been a journalist of Gazeta Polska.{{Cite web |title=Jarosław Grzędowicz |url=https://instytutksiazki.pl/en/polish-literature,8,authors-index,26,jaroslaw-grzedowicz,59.html?filter=G |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=instytutksiazki.pl |language=pl}} His first short story collection was published in 2003. His first novel (Pan Lodowego Ogrodu) was published in 2005, his second, {{ill|Popiół i kurz|pl}}, in 2006. In 2006 he received Janusz A. Zajdel Award in both possible categories: for novel Pan Lodowego Ogrodu, tom I and short story {{ill|Wilcza zamieć|pl}}, and in 2007 Popiół i kurz won in the novel category. He was married to fellow fantasy writer Maja Lidia Kossakowska until her death in 2022.{{cite web|access-date=2025-03-02 |author=Piotr Konieczny |title=SFE: Grzędowicz, Jarosław |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/grzedowicz_jaroslaw |website=Tje Encyclopedia of Science Fiction}}

Five of his books were published as part of Mistrzowie Polskiej Fantastyki (Masters of Polish Fantasy) collection in 2018.