Janina David
Janina David (actually Janina Dawidowicz; born March 19, 1930 in Kalisz ) is a Polish-British writer and translator.
Life
The Polish Jew Janina David succeeded in 1943 to escape from the Warsaw ghetto. Her father was probably at Majdanek, the mother is not known. The end of the war she experienced hidden in a monastery. In 1946, she left Poland. They lived first in Paris, then emigrated to Australia, where she received a scholarship for the study of the arts and social sciences at the University of Melbourne. In 1958 she returned to Europe and worked as a social worker in various London hospitals. Since 1978 she has been working full time as a writer and translator of children 's books and radio plays for the BBC, among others.
Janina David lives in London.
Works
- A piece of heaven. Memories of a Childhood (Original title: A Square of Sky The Recollections of a Childhood, translated by Hannelore Neves. ). 2nd edition, dtv, München 2010 ( German edition by Hanser, Munich, 1981), ISBN 978-3-423-62442-8.
- A piece of earth. The End of a Childhood (Original Title: A Touch of Earth, translated by Hannelore Neves ). dtv, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-62069-2.
- A piece of strangers. Memories of Youth ( Original title:. Light over the Water Post-war wanderings 1946-1948, translated by Gertrud Baruch ). dtv, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-62086-2.
- A part of the whole ( original title: A Part of the Main, translated by Helmut Kossodo ). Earthscan, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-426-02353-9.
- Life at second hand. Novel. Fischer paperback publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-24744-6 ( translated by Michaela Huber).
- The pearl of wisdom. Narratives. Knaur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-60178-8 ( translated by Jacob Leutner ).
- Eurydice's eyes. Narratives. Berlin paperback Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8333-0123-6 ( translated by Gesine stamp).
- Joseph Ziemian: The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square. Avon Books, New York, NY 1977, ISBN 0-380-00967-6.
Filmography
Franz Peter Wirth (1919-1999) filmed the book A piece of heaven for the ARD (→ Movie). The then only seventeen years of Czech Actress Dana Vávrová (1967-2009) was also popular in Germany in this role.