Żanna Słoniowska (Ukrainian: Слоньовська Жанна; born 1978) is a Polish novelist and journalist. She was the first winner of the Znak literary prize for her novel The House with the Stained-Glass Window and a Conrad Prize winner.
Żanna Słoniowska | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 45–46) Lviv, Ukraine |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | Ukrainian-Polish |
| Period | 2000s–present |
| Notable works | The House with the Stained-Glass Window |
Biography
editSłoniowska was born in Lviv in 1978, in a family with Polish antecedents. She attended the Ukrainian Academy of Printing, following which she worked as a journalist for the television channel NTA.
In 2002, she moved to Poland. She began doctoral studies in Warsaw's University of Social Sciences and Humanities. After her marriage, she moved to Kraków.[1]
In 2013, she published a historical work The most beautiful photographs of pre-war Lviv, illustrated with fine photographs. The following year, her debut novel The House with the Stained-Glass Window (Polish: Dom z Witrażem) was published.[2]
Awards and recognition
editThe House with the Stained-Glass Window
- Znak publishing house's prize for best novel[3]
- Conrad prize for new writers,[2][4]
- Shortlisted for the Nike Award in 2016.[5]
Reception
edit- For The House with the Stained-Glass Window
A reviewer in Polityka said that "the grandeur of the book is impressive - through a small family saga it depicts the history of Ukraine over the last hundred years".[3] Another called it "a tale saturated with vivid colors, paintings, dreamy moments, ... it is, above all, a moving and insightful saga about women, entangled in history."[6]
Selected works
edit- Przedwojenny Lwów. Najpiękniejsze fotografie [The most beautiful photographs of pre-war Lviv]. RM. 2013. ISBN 978-83-7773-053-9.
- Dom z witrażem [The House with the Stained-Glass Window]. Translated by Lloyd-Jones, Antonia. London: MacLehose. 2017. ISBN 978-0857057136.
External links
edit- Kowalczyk, Janusz R (17 April 2014). "Żanna Słoniowska, "Przedwojenny Lwów. Najpiękniejsze fotografie"" (in Polish). Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- Sloniowska, Zanna (2022-03-08). "I left Ukraine 20 years ago. It never left me". New York Times. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
References
edit- ^ "Żanna Słoniowska: wzrusza mnie polsko-ukraińska solidarność". Onet. 11 March 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ a b "Żanna Słoniowska z Nagrodą Conrada 2016". Culture.pl. 31 October 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ a b Sobolewska, Justyna (24 February 2015). "Recenzja książki: Żanna Słoniowska, "Dom z witrażem"". Polityka. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Żanna Słoniowska wins the Conrad Award!". Conrad Festival. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Nominacje do nagrody Nike 2016". Culture.pl. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ Szulc, Anna (16 March 2015). "Przypadki chodzą po Lwowie, czyli "Dom z witrażem" Słoniowskiej". Newsweek Polska. Retrieved 20 August 2017.