Marcin Wicha

Polish artist and writer

Marcin Wicha

Born	1972 Warsaw, Polish People's Republic
Occupation(s)	writer, essayist, graphic designer

Marcin Wicha (born 1972, in Warsaw, Polish People's Republic) is a Polish graphic designer, children's author, and essayist.

Early life

Wicha was born in Warsaw in 1972, to a family of Jewish origin the son of Piotr Wicha (1946–2006), an architect, and his wife, Joanna Rabanowska-Wicha (1946–2015), the grandson of Jan Rabanowski from his father's side, who was a politician and minister of communications of Poland during the Communist period and of Władysław Wicha from his mother's side, who served as Ministry of Interior.

Career

He has been a cartoonist for the Catholic weekly magazine Tygodnik Powszechny, and has contributed cartoons to the monthly magazine Charaktery and the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.^[1]

He has written a number of children's books.^[2]

His 2017 book Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem received the 2017 Polityka Passport for literature,^[3] the 2018 Nike Literary Award, and the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award,^[4] and was shortlisted for the Gdynia Literary Prize.^[5] It was translated into English and published in 2021 under the title Things I Didn't Throw Out.^[6] It is partly an autobiographical novel and partly a meditation on the loss of loved ones.^[7] In translation it was awarded a PEN Translates Award by English PEN in 2021.^[8]

Works (in English translation)

Things I Didn't Throw Out (2021: Daunt Books, translated by Marta Dziurosz), ISBN 978-1-914198-02-1
How I Stopped Loving Design (online excerpt, Public Seminar, translated by Marta Dziurosz)

References

^ "Andrew Nurnberg: Marcin Wicha". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
^ "Andrew Nurnberg: Marcin Wicha". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
^ "Krakow City of Literature: Marcin Wicha won the literary Paszport Polityki award!". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
^ "Andrew Nurnberg: Marcin Wicha". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
^ "Asymptote: Things I Didn't Throw Out". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
^ "Andrew Nurnberg: Marcin Wicha". Retrieved 4 October 2021.
^ "Books from Poland: Śliwiński, Piotr, "Things I Didn't Throw Out"". Retrieved 27 October 2021.
^ "Publishing Perspectives: English PEN Names a New Round of 'PEN Translates' Award Grants". 8 July 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2021.