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Andrzej Stasiuk - born in Warsaw in 1960, a writer, poet, and a literary critic.On this page we present two articles on Andrzej Stasiuk - his biographical note originally published on www.polska2000.pl, and a profile of the author written by Bartosz Marzec.Stasiuk has had one of the most spectacular careers of recent years. He is the winner of many prizes (including the 1995 Kościelski Prize), he was expelled from school and worked at various jobs. He has an unusual biography: he was engaged in the pacifist movement in the early 1980s, deserted the army, and spent a year and a half in prison. He contributed to "underground" magazines. With little tolerance for literary salons and officialdom, he moved from Warsaw to a house in the province, from which he mails his texts to the most popular and prestigious newspapers and magazines, including "Gazeta Wyborcza" and Tygodnik Powszechny.
His first collection of stories "The Walls of Hebron" (1992) contained descriptions of his prison experiences: images from life in a cell and a record of a naked, dehumanized existence in a world ruled by force and cunning. Shocking accounts of humiliation and brutality combined with a pathos bordering on the lyrical, with sarcasm, artfulness, linguistic refinement and a flair for poetic shortcuts - this is Stasiuk's prose. His next books reinforced his reputation. "Opowieści galicyjskie / Galician Tales", 1994, presents semi-fictionalized, semi-journalistic accounts of the lives of the residents of a village in the provincial foothills, with keenly observed details of the manners and morals of the period of political transformation, clearly drawn characters, a plot straight out of a folk ballad, and a climate in which poetical lyricism coexists with brutality. The stories in "Przez rzekę / Through the River", 1996, are a continuation of similar narrations in a similar setting. Stasiuk's book "Dukla" (1997), has been nominated for the 1998 Nike Prize, and "Zima... / Winter..." (2001) for the 2002 Nike Prize.
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