10 November 2011 Głowacki wins Miłosz Award
Janusz Głowacki wins the Czesław Miłosz Award, granted by the U.S. Embassy in Poland for Contributions to U.S.-Polish Understanding. Janusz Głowacki has achieved an iconic status in both literature and theatre on both sides of the Atlantic. For Poles, perhaps no one has better captured the irony and humour of the life of Eastern European immigrants in the promised land of New York. It is an honour to give the Miłosz Award to such an outstanding interpreter of our two cultures,” said U.S. Ambassador to Poland Lee Feinstein while announcing the winner. The Embassy will host a reception on the 22nd of November 2011 to honor this year’s recipient.
Janusz Głowacki is a playwright, novelist, columnist, and screenwriter (Wajda's Polowanie na muchy, Piwowski's Rejs, Morgenstern's Trzeba zabić tę miłość). Between 1964 and 1981, he worked as a columnist with the Kultura weekly. Since 1983, he has lived in New York. He taught at Columbia University and Bennington College and was a visiting playwright at the New York Public Theater, the Mark Tapper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. A number of his articles and essays were also featured in the New York Times. He published a few volumes of short stories, including: Wirówka nonsensu, Nowy taniec, Polowanie na muchy, Raport Piłata, My sweet Raskolnikow and Coraz trudniej kochać. Two volumes of essays W nocy gorzej widać, Powrót hrabiego Monte Christo, novels – Moc truchleje (a story about the events in Gdańsk Shipyard during the August strike from the perspective of a simple worker), Ostatni cień published in 2001, and Good night Dżerzi, published in 2010 – a book treating of Jerzy Kosiński, a controversial Polish writer adn author of the famous The Painted Bird. Głowacki burst onto the U.S. theatrical scene with his play Hunting Cockroaches. However, his biggest dramatic success was Antigone in New York. His plays are staged all over the world, including in such cities as New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Toronto, London, Marseille, Sidney, Bonn, Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Petersburg, Dagestan, Seoul and Taipei. Jacek Szczerba wrote in the pages of Gazeta Wyborcza: “Janusz Głowacki has a passion for irony.” He has also just completed a script for a film about the leader of the Solidarity movement – Lech Wałęsa. The film based on the script will be directed by Andrzej Wajda.
The Czesław Miłosz Award for Contributions to U.S.-Polish Understanding has been given out since 2006 to those who have contributed to furthering the idea of cooperation and understanding between the United States and Poland. The recipients in the recent years included: Andrzej Wajda, Adam Zagajewski and Julia Hartwig.
Janusz Głowacki was a guest of this year's edition of the Conrad Festival.
Janusz Głowacki wins the Czesław Miłosz Award, granted by the U.S. Embassy in Poland for Contributions to U.S.-Polish Understanding. Janusz Głowacki has achieved an iconic status in both literature and theatre on both sides of the Atlantic. For Poles, perhaps no one has better captured the irony and humour of the life of Eastern European immigrants in the promised land of New York. It is an honour to give the Miłosz Award to such an outstanding interpreter of our two cultures,” said U.S. Ambassador to Poland Lee Feinstein while announcing the winner. The Embassy will host a reception on the 22nd of November 2011 to honor this year’s recipient.
Janusz Głowacki is a playwright, novelist, columnist, and screenwriter (Wajda's Polowanie na muchy, Piwowski's Rejs, Morgenstern's Trzeba zabić tę miłość). Between 1964 and 1981, he worked as a columnist with the Kultura weekly. Since 1983, he has lived in New York. He taught at Columbia University and Bennington College and was a visiting playwright at the New York Public Theater, the Mark Tapper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. A number of his articles and essays were also featured in the New York Times. He published a few volumes of short stories, including: Wirówka nonsensu, Nowy taniec, Polowanie na muchy, Raport Piłata, My sweet Raskolnikow and Coraz trudniej kochać. Two volumes of essays W nocy gorzej widać, Powrót hrabiego Monte Christo, novels – Moc truchleje (a story about the events in Gdańsk Shipyard during the August strike from the perspective of a simple worker), Ostatni cień published in 2001, and Good night Dżerzi, published in 2010 – a book treating of Jerzy Kosiński, a controversial Polish writer adn author of the famous The Painted Bird. Głowacki burst onto the U.S. theatrical scene with his play Hunting Cockroaches. However, his biggest dramatic success was Antigone in New York. His plays are staged all over the world, including in such cities as New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Toronto, London, Marseille, Sidney, Bonn, Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Petersburg, Dagestan, Seoul and Taipei. Jacek Szczerba wrote in the pages of Gazeta Wyborcza: “Janusz Głowacki has a passion for irony.” He has also just completed a script for a film about the leader of the Solidarity movement – Lech Wałęsa. The film based on the script will be directed by Andrzej Wajda.
The Czesław Miłosz Award for Contributions to U.S.-Polish Understanding has been given out since 2006 to those who have contributed to furthering the idea of cooperation and understanding between the United States and Poland. The recipients in the recent years included: Andrzej Wajda, Adam Zagajewski and Julia Hartwig.
Janusz Głowacki was a guest of this year's edition of the Conrad Festival.
