Sergiusz Pinkwart

He made his literary debut in 1987 with the collection of stories Fairy Tales from The Tatra Mountains. He graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University in Warsaw, a musical conservatorium and academy, he professionally plays the violin and viola. From 1994, for several years he combined his musical career as a violist in the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and on "Polish Broadway" – ROMA Musical Theater, with journalistic work as the head of the foreign departments in magazines: Viva!, Gala,{{Cite web|title=Sergiusz Pinkwart – Gala.pl|url=https://www.gala.pl/user/sergiusz-pinkwart|access-date=9 September 2020|website=www.gala.pl|archive-date=23 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223184943/https://www.gala.pl/user/sergiusz-pinkwart|url-status=dead}} and PANI Magazine. He was specialized in interviews with world famous actors, musicians, filmmakers and politicians, he conducted interviews with Woody Allen,{{Cite web|last=Polski|first=Goniec|title=Randka z Woody Allenem - Goniec.com|url=https://goniec.com/wiadomosci/spoleczenstwo/19365-maria-czubaszek-wywiad-goniec-polski-pinkwart-polskie-radio-polonia|access-date=9 September 2020|website=goniec.com|language=pl-pl|archive-date=23 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223195627/https://goniec.com/wiadomosci/spoleczenstwo/19365-maria-czubaszek-wywiad-goniec-polski-pinkwart-polskie-radio-polonia|url-status=dead}} Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Allbright, Harrisson Ford, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Hugh Grant, Catherine Zeta-Jones and hundreds more.{{Cite web|title=Czytam książki {{!}} "Gambia. Kraina uśmiechu" Magdalena i Sergiusz Pinkwart, Dominik Skurzak|url=https://www.radio.bialystok.pl/czytamksiazki|access-date=26 November 2020|website=Polskie Radio Białystok|language=pl}}{{Cite web|title=Celine Dion – Newsy – Polki.pl|url=https://polki.pl/zycie-gwiazd/newsy,celine-dion,7004020,artykul.html|access-date=26 November 2020|website=polki.pl}}{{Cite web |date=2012-07-26 |title=Pinkwart szefem działu zagranicznego 'Pani' |url=https://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/pinkwart-szefem-dzialu-zagranicznego-pani |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=www.wirtualnemedia.pl |language=pl}} For many years he was accredited as an official Polish journalist representative in Hollywood and by the Cannes Film Festival. He was a music consultant of the Polish edition of the autobiography of the Oscar winner Burt Bacharach.{{Cite web|title=Dietrich, Niemen i Bacharach – połączyła ich piosenka|url=https://polskieradio.pl/art160_1081606|access-date=9 September 2020|website=PolskieRadio.pl}} He writes books for children and adults.{{Cite web|title=Sergiusz Pinkwart|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16728445.Sergiusz_Pinkwart|access-date=9 September 2020|website=www.goodreads.com}} Theatre plays for children were based on his books Zaczarowana Wigilia (Magic Christmas Eve) and Podróże z fantazją. Bajka muzyczna (Traveling with Fantasy. Musical fairy tale). Columnist for Read & Fly Magazine{{Cite web|date=23 September 2019|title=Thomas Cook: co zabiło giganta? – felieton Sergiusza Pinkwarta|url=https://readandfly.pl/co-zabilo-thomasa-cooka/|access-date=9 September 2020|website=readandfly.pl|language=pl-PL|archive-date=23 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223184946/https://readandfly.pl/co-zabilo-thomasa-cooka/|url-status=dead}} and in English for The First News.{{Cite web|title=The violinist who can!|url=https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/the-violinist-who-can-6835|access-date=9 September 2020|website=www.thefirstnews.com|language=en}} After completing his musical career, he collaborates with the ROMA Musical Theater as a writer and a specialist of the history of this cultural institution.{{Cite web|title=Tajemnice Teatru Romy w Warszawie|url=https://www.focus.pl/artykul/tajemnice-teatru-romy-w-warszawie|access-date=9 September 2020|website=www.focus.pl|date=21 January 2014 |language=pl-PL}} He runs the travel program Baby on Board on the Polish National Radio.{{Cite web|title="Dziecko w drodze" w Olsztynie|url=https://visit.olsztyn.eu/article/747/dziecko-w-drodze-w-olsztynie|access-date=9 September 2020|website=visit.olsztyn.eu|language=pl}} As a TV personality he takes part in public debates in mainstream media.{{Cite web|title=Pierś a sprawa polska|url=https://www.tvn24.pl/magazyn-tvn24/r/1149|access-date=9 September 2020|website=TVN24.pl}}{{Cite web|title=Wyborcza.pl|url=https://wyborcza.pl/1,76842,7596648,Sergiusz_Pinkwart__Ciemna_strona_ikony.html?disableRedirects=true|access-date=9 September 2020|website=wyborcza.pl}} His book Gambia. The Smiling Coast, published by National Geographic, was awarded the main Magellan Award for the best illustrated guide.{{Cite web|last=banaliz|date=14 May 2015|title=Nagrody Magellana wręczone po raz siódmy|url=https://najlepszeprzewodniki.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/nagrody-magellana-wreczone-po-raz-siodmy/|access-date=9 September 2020|website=Najlepsze przewodniki|language=pl-PL}} From 2018 he is the host of the yearly gala concert of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity in Liverpool.{{Cite web|date=19 December 2019|title=28. Finał WOŚP – Liverpool|url=https://womanintheworld.co.uk/28-final-wosp-liverpool/|access-date=9 September 2020|website=Woman in the World|language=pl-PL}} In 2021 he received another Magellan Award for The Faroe Islands First-Hand Guide. A Practical Travel Guide. Since 2024, he has been working as a correspondent from Great Britain for TVP Polonia – channel of Telewizja Polska, a public service broadcaster in Poland, the oldest and largest Polish television network.

He is the son of Maciej Pinkwart, a writer and historian from Zakopane and brother of the journalist and TV correspondent Joanna Pinkwart. In 2015 he left Poland and moved to Liverpool, United Kingdom. Lives in Bootle. He is active in the Merseyside County Polish charity organisations and associations, and Polish émigré press. Married to journalist and travel writer Magdalena Pinkwart, father of four children: Wiktor, Liwia, Wilhelm and Lara.

• Bajki Tatrzańskie, PTTK Kraj Publishing, 1987
• Nagrania Stefana Kamasy w Archiwum Polskiego Radia, Chopin University of Music, 1997
• Cień Kilimandżaro, Albatros Publishing, 2010
• Les Miserables. Narodziny sztuki, Wydawnictwo Teatru Muzycznego ROMA, 2011
• Podróże z fantazją. Bajka muzyczna, Akapit-Press Publishing, 2011
• Zaczarowana Wigilia, Akapit-Press Publishing, 2011
• Tata reporter, Wydawnictwo Akapit-Press Publishing, 2011
• Klub Racjonalistek, Albatros Publishing, 2013
• Tutaj drzwi trzeba otwierać powoli, Stowarzyszenie Szkoła Liderów Publishing, 2013
• Gambia. Kraina uśmiechu, National Geographic Publishing, 2014
• Drakulcio ma kłopoty. Urodzinowa katastrofa, Akapit-Press Publishing, 2015
• Drakulcio ma kłopoty. Mecz stulecia, Akapit-Press Publishing, 2015
• Kulinarne podróże po Chorwacji, National Geographic Publishing, 2015 (co-author with Anna Olej-Kobus, Krzysztof Kobus, Magdalena Pinkwart)
• Drakulcio ma kłopoty. Klątwa faraona, Akapit-Press Publishing, 2016
• Gdańsk. Przewodnik Turystyczny, Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku, Gdańska Organizacja Turystyczna, 2017
• Drakulcio ma kłopoty. Mistrz jazdy na krechę, Akapit-Press Publishing, 2017
• Drakulcio ma kłopoty. Włoska awantura, Akapit-Press Publishing, 2017
• Straszliwa historia w obrazkach, Akapit-Press Publishing, 2017
• Maria Czubaszek. Ostatni dymek, Czerwone i Czarne Publishing, 2017
• Pati i Jędrek mali strażnicy Tatr. Na górskim szlaku, Tatrzański Park Narodowy Publishing, 2017
• Mikołaj i dziewczyna z gwiazd, Akapit-Press Publishing, 2017
• Drakulcio ma kłopoty. Jak zjeść francuską żabę, Akapit-Press Publishing, 2018
• Warto marzyć, Wydawnictwo Teatru Muzycznego ROMA, 2019
• Wyspy Owcze z pierwszej ręki. Praktyczny przewodnik turystyczny, Lara Books Publishing, 2020

• Romeo i Julia, 2004
• Supermarket, 2012
• Big Love, 2012

• 2014 Magellan Award for the Best Illustrated Guide for the book The Gambia. The Smiling Coast, National Geographic Publishing House
• 2019 Award of the Association of The Polish Journalists Travellers Globtroter for the Best Travel Publications of the Year{{Cite web|title=Globtroter – GLOBTROTER: SPOTKANIE WIGILIJNE I NAGRODY DZIENNIKARSKIE ZA ROK 2019|url=http://www.globtroter.info/goscie-globtrotera/3940-globtroter-spotkanie-wigilijne-i-nagrody-dziennikarskie-za-rok-2019|access-date=9 September 2020|website=www.globtroter.info|archive-date=23 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223184946/http://www.globtroter.info/goscie-globtrotera/3940-globtroter-spotkanie-wigilijne-i-nagrody-dziennikarskie-za-rok-2019|url-status=dead}}
• 2021 Magellan Award for the Best Illustrated Guide for the book Faroe Islands at First Hand, Lara Books Publishing House

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• [http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=1175836 Sergiusz Pinkwart] on Filmpolski.pl (pol.)
• [https://kurier365.pl/kultura/15068-trzy-pytania-do-sergiusza-pinkwarta.html Interview with Sergiusz Pinkwart] Kurier365.pl, 13 October 2013
• [https://www.thefirstnews.com/category/why-so-serious Sergiusz Pinkwart's columns] The First News, 2019–2020
• [https://dzieckowdrodze.com Travel blog by Sergiusz Pinkwart] Keep Calm and Travel, 2013–2020
• [https://www.polskieradio.pl/18/4629 Travel broadcast by Sergiusz Pinkwart] Polish National Radio, 2015–2020
• [https://magazynvip.pl/sergiusz-pinkwart-wyspy-owcze-to-lakomy-kasek-dla-obiezyswiatow/ Interview with Sergiusz Pinkwart. The Faroe Islands are a tasty morsel for globetrotters] VIP Magazyn, 24 May 2020

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