Dorota Masłowska

Dorota Masłowska ( born July 3, 1983 in Wejherowo, Poland) is a Polish writer.

Life and work

Masłowska grew up in Wejherowo and began after graduating from high school in psychology at the University of Gdansk, but soon moved to Warsaw to study cultural studies. In the meantime, she lived in Krakow, but then returned to Warsaw, the district of Praga, she describes in her second book. In September 2004 their first child was born.

Your debut novel Wojna inglese - ruska pod Flaga biało - czerwona (2002) she wrote at the age of 18 years during the final year at Liceum. The novel (literally: Polish- Russian war under white-red banner) has been translated into all major European languages ​​. He describes - or caricatured - the everyday life and the lack of prospects for young people in post-communist Poland. Critics praised particularly enriched with plenty of youth long narrative style. Thus, a review of the daily newspaper compared him to Irvine Welshs Trainspotting or JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. However, the book provoked some criticism.

Published in 2005 Masłowska her second book Paw Królowej, with whom she split the criticism. The title is a play on words - it can mean " The Peacock Queen ", but also " The Vomit Queen ". The German translation will be published in June 2007 under the title The Queen herons. Man accused the author before she foaming of cynicism, irritate whether their ugliness and stupidity and call with their aggressive language and the absence of any narrative stringency only dislike forth ( Wprost ), but curtailed, the new book is not worse than the first. It is as toxic as desperate ( Tygodnik Powszechny ). Paw Królowej is written in verse like a hip-hop songs. The author dissects and satirizes in the presence of Polish language. Much like its predecessor, also paints a bleak picture Paw Królowej of present-day Poland.

Published in 2006 Masłowska her first stage play, Dwoje biednych Rumunów mówiących po polsku ( German: Couple of Poor, Polish-speaking Romanians ), which was presented in a staged reading in the Warsaw theater " TR Warszawa ". Her most recent piece is Między nami dobrze jest ( We get on well with us ), a commissioned work for the TR Warszawa and the Schaubühne place. It was first performed in 2009 at the "International Festival of Authors on the identity and history " in Berlin.

Masłowska wrote columns for the magazine Przekrój, published under the title Dziennik z Krainy pazłotka, as well as literature reviews for supplement of Gazeta Wyborcza, the Vysokie Obcasy ( high heels ).

Influences

From Dorota Masłowska were, for example, Agnieszka Drotkiewicz and Mirosław Nahacz affected.

Others

Both novels were often brought to the stage. Productions on the basis of Wojna inglese - ruska realized Agnieszka Lipiec - Wróblewska (2003, Teatr Wybrzeze in Gdansk ) and Paweł Niczewski (2005, Piwnica przy Krypcie in Szczecin ), as well as Paw Królowej Łukasz Kos (2006, Państwowa Wyższa SzkoĹ Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna in. Leona Schillera in Lodz ), Jacek Papis (2006, Teatr Wytwórnia in Warsaw) and Krzysztof Jaworski (2006, Teatr in Krakow Ludowy ). A film adaptation of Wojna inglese - ruska plans Jakub Jan Kolski.

Prices

• 2001: Prize of the magazine Twój Styl competing Diaries
• 2002: Paszport Polityki, price of weekly Polityka for their " original view of the Polish reality and a creative use of everyday language ."
• 2002: Prize " Złote Pióro Sopotu "
• 2003: nominated for the Nike Literary Award
• 2005: German Youth Literature Prize
• 2006: Nike for 2005 (Paw Królowej )

Works

• 2002: Wojna inglese - ruska pod Flaga biało - czerwona. Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boza, ISBN 83-86735-87-2 (Eng. 2004 udT Snow White and Russian, Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Malevich, ISBN 3- 462-03376 -X), translated by Olaf Kühl
• 2005: Paw Królowej. Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boza, ISBN 83-89603-20-9 (Eng. 2007 udT The heron Queen A Rap, Cologne. Kiepenheuer & Malevich, translated by Olaf Kühl
• 2006: Dwoje biednych Rumunów mówiących po polsku - Drama (published in the anthology TR / PL, edited by TR Warszawa
• 2008: Między nami dobrze jest ( We get on well with us ) - Drama, Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boza, ISBN 978-83-89603-60-9
• 2012: Kochanie, zabiłam nasze koty ( Honey, I killed our cats ) - Roman, Warsaw: Noir sur Blanc 2012, ISBN 978-83-7392-393-5.