Weronika Murek
Early life and education
Weronika Murek was born in 1989, in Bytom. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia.
Career
Murek has written plays, short stories{{Cite web |last=Wymysłowski |first=Piotr |title=Weronika Murek {{!}} Życie i twórczość {{!}} Artysta |url=https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/weronika-murek |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=Culture.pl |language=pl}} and essays. She won the Gdynia Drama Award 2015 for the play Feinweinblein set in the 1950s Upper Silesia.{{Cite web |title=Weronika Murek |url=http://www.gnd.art.pl/weronika-murek/ |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=Gdyńska Nagroda Dramaturgiczna}} Her debut collection of short stories Uprawa roślin południowych metodą Miczurina was nominated for the Paszport Polityki 2015 in the literature category, the Nike Award 2016,{{Cite web |title=Weronika Murek |url=https://instytutksiazki.pl/literatura,8,indeks-autorow,26,weronika-murek,959.html?filter=M |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=Instytut Książki |language=pl}} the Gdynia Literary Prize 2016 and the Conrad Award 2016.{{Cite web |date=2016-09-22 |title=Poznaliśmy nominacje do nagrody Conrada za najlepszy literacki debiut |url=https://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,20732882,poznalismy-nominacje-do-nagrody-conrada-za-najlepszy-literacki.html?disableRedirects=true |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=Gazeta Wyborcza}} The collection won the Witold Gombrowicz literary award in 2016. Murek gained her second Paszport Polityki nomination with the 2019 collection of plays called Feinweinblein.
Apart from writing her own plays, Murek has also worked on adaptating the work of others to the stage. For example, she cooperated with Grzegorz Jarzyna to adapt a work by Lu Xun or create together a new production of The Tempest.
Murek's works have been translated into Czech, French, Serbian and Hungarian. An excerpt from her short story collection was published in English on the European Literature Network website.{{Cite web |title=From GROWING SOUTHERN PLANTS THE MICHURIN WAY by Weronika Murek, translated by Danusia Stok |url=https://www.eurolitnetwork.com/from-growing-southern-plants-the-michurin-way-by-weronika-murek-translated-by-danusia-stok/ |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=European Literature Network}}
Works
- Uprawa roślin południowych metodą Miczurina, 2015
- Każdemu po razie, short story for O_KA literary project, 2016{{Cite web |date=2016-09-16 |title=Projekt literacki O_KAZ |url=https://www.jewishfestival.pl/pl/projekt-literacki-o_kaz/ |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków |language=pl}}
- Feinweinblein, 2019
- Dziewczynki: kilka esejów o stawaniu się, 2023{{Cite web |title=Dziewczynki : kilka esejów o stawaniu się / Weronika Murek |url=https://katalogi.bn.org.pl/discovery/fulldisplay?&context=L&vid=48OMNIS_NLOP:48OMNIS_NLOP&search_scope=NLOP_IZ_NZ&tab=LibraryCatalog&docid=alma9913158909705606 |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=katalogi.bn.org}}
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