Zyta Rudzka

(born 1964) – writer, screenwriter of films about art, psychologist. Graduate of the Psychology Department of the Academy of Catholic Theology. Author of novels (including Krótka wymiana ognia, 2018) and plays (e.g. Zimny bufet, 2011; winner of the Gdynia Drama Award). She is a laureate of the Deutsche Welle literary award, the Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Prize and the Stanislaw Piętak Prize The film Erna Rosenstein. Wieczność dla Nikogo, based on her script was awarded at the Krakow Documentary Film Festival (1995).The theatrical staging of her play Cukier Stanik directed by Agata Puszcza, won the Gold Remi Award at the Worldfest – Houston Independent Film Festival (2016). The premiere of her play Zucker Büstenhalter, directed by Imre Lichtenberger Bozoki, took place in Vienna in 2017. Her work has been translated into German, Russian, French, Czech, Italian, English, Croatian and Japanese.