Małgorzata Szejnert

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Wyspa klucz (2009)

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Małgorzata Szejnert (Polish pronunciation: {{IPAc-pl|m|a|ł|g|o|'|rz|a|t|a|-|'|sz|e|j|n|e|r|t}}; born 28 April 1936, Warsaw) is a Polish journalist and writer.

Biography

She graduated from the Emilia Plater Girls' High School in Biała Podlaska. She also graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Warsaw. She was head of the reportage section in the weekly newspaper Literatura.{{Cite web |url=https://culture.pl/en/artist/malgorzata-szejnert |title=Małgorzata Szejnert |access-date=16 November 2022}} In 1981, after the imposition of martial law in Poland, she collaborated with the underground anti-communist press. In 1984, she moved to the United States where she worked for the Nowy Dziennik daily newspaper. In 1986, she returned to Poland. She is one of the co-founders of Gazeta Wyborcza.{{Cite web |url=https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/authors/szejnert-malgorzata#:~:text=Malgorzata%20Szejnert%20For%20forty%20years%2C%20Malgorzata%20Szejnert%20%28b.,member%20of%20the%20opposition%20during%20the%20Solidarity%20period. |title=MALGORZATA SZEJNERT |access-date=17 November 2022}}

She made her literary debut in 1972, with the publication of Borowiki przy ternpajku, a book about the Polish diaspora in America.

Awards and honours

In 2008, she was nominated to the Angelus Award for her book Czarny ogród (The Black Garden).{{Cite web |url=https://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35771,6014983,siodemka-w-finale-angelusa.html |language=pl |title=Siódemka w finale Angelusa |website=wyborcza.pl |access-date=17 November 2022}} Her book Wyspa klucz received a nomination to the Nike Award in 2010.{{Cite web |url=https://www.polskieradio.pl/24/289/Artykul/238671,Nike-2010-nominacje |language=pl |title=Nike 2010 - nominacje |access-date=16 November 2022}} Her another work, Usypać góry. Historie z Polesia, was nominated to the Ryszard Kapuściński Award in 2015.

In 2015, she was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.{{Cite web |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20140000741 |language=pl |title=M.P. 2014 poz. 741 |access-date=16 November 2022}}

Bibliography

Borowiki przy ternpajku, Warsaw: Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1972.
Ulica z latarnią, Warsaw: Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1977.
I niespokojnie tu i tam, Olsztyn: Wydawnictwo Pojezierze, 1980.
Szczecin: Grudzień-Sierpień-Grudzień, współautor Tomasz Zalewski, Warsaw: NOWA, 1984; London: Aneks, 1986.
Sława i infamia. Rozmowa z Bohdanem Korzeniewskim, London: Aneks,1988; Warszawa: „Pokolenie”, 1988; Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1992
Śród żywych duchów, London: Aneks, 1990; wyd. II, Warsaw: Znak, 2012
Czarny ogród, Kraków: Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak, 2007, {{ISBN|978-83-240-0896-4}}
Szczecin: Grudzień-Sierpień-Grudzień współautor Tomasz Zalewski, London: Aneks, 1990;
Szczecin: Walkowska Wydawnictwo, 2008, {{ISBN|978-83-924983-2-2}}
Wyspa klucz, Kraków: Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak, 2009, {{ISBN|978-83-240-1161-2}}
Dom żółwia. Zanzibar, Kraków: Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak, 2011, {{ISBN|978-83-240-1819-2}}
My, właściciele Teksasu. Reportaże z PRL-u, Kraków: Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak, 2013, {{ISBN|978-83-240-2121-5}}.
Usypać góry. Historie z Polesia, Kraków: Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak, 2015, {{ISBN|978-83-240-3287-7}}