Wojciech Kuczok

Wojciech Kuczok ( born October 18, 1972 in Chorzów ) is a Polish writer and film critic.

Life

Kuczok grew up in Upper Silesia, and studied at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He worked as a journalist for the weekly Tygodnik Powszechny and the monthlies Res Publica Nowa and cinema. He is currently a PhD student of Film Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In the 90s he began to work as a writer and a member of the group of poets Na Dziko. His first short stories appeared in 1996, already his third book Opowieści słychane ( Answered stories ) was praised by critics. The same applied for his first novel Gnój ( bastard ) from the year 2003. Herein he describes with a sometimes dramatic language, but always ironic and surreal broken a family history of Upper Silesia from the 70s and 80s, who could be his own. For the book, he received the Paszport Polityki and in 2004 the eminent Polish literary award, the Nike 2003. He then wrote the screenplay for the film pregi ( welts ) by Magdalena Piekorz, who won the main prize at the Polish Film Festival Gdynia 2004.

In his texts, Kuczok is not only outspoken and irreverent with the tabooed in Poland subjects of family and church apart, but treated with the coming-out of gay protagonists repeated another taboo subject in Polish society.

Works

  • Opowieści samowite (1996 )
  • Larmo (1998)
  • Opowieści słychane (1999)
  • Szkieleciarki (2002)
  • Gnój ( 2003) ( German: bastard, Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-41884-0 )
  • Widmokrąg ( 2004) ( German: In the circle of ghosts, Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2006 ISBN 3-518-41753-3. )
  • Opowieści przebrane (2005)
  • To piekielne cinema ( 2006) ( German: Infernal Cinema, Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-12542-7 )
  • Senność ( 2008) ( German: lethargy, Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3518421833 )

Screenplays

  • Pregi (2004)
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