(b. 1965) – a poet, prose writer, critic and literary historian. Wojciech Kudyba made his debut as a poet published in the 1994 volume…
View profile(b. 1976) – a writer and illustrator of children’s books, and a translator from the Italian.
Eliza Piotrowska graduated in art history from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and in contemporary art from La Sapienza University in Rome.
Back in elementary school, she was noticed and guided by Danuta Wawiłow, thanks to whom she got an early start publishing in magazines for children and young adults and in anthologies of young poets. In the 1990s, she was a member of the KLAN (Club of Artistically Unsatiated People) Polish group of young and talented poets.
In 2001–3 she worked at the National Museum in Poznań, where she and Paulina Broniewska created the Children’s Museum Academy, an undertaking singled out in the Sybilla Competition for Museum Event of the Year, organised by the National Museum and Resource Protection Institute, under the patronage of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
Eliza Piotrowska is an author and illustrator of bestselling children’s books, including a series about the adventures of energetic Aunt Jadzia, bridging generations and serving as a model of a joyful, creative person who can enjoy life under any circumstances, and a series of rhyming stories for children about the lives of saints: John Bosco, Urszula Ledóchowska, Nicholas of Myra and Anthony of Padua.
She works with children’s magazines (Świerszczyk, Mały Przewodnik Katolicki, and in 2004–9, Miś) and magazines for adults devoted to children’s literature (Guliwer, Ryms).
Piotrowska has taken numerous awards in Polish literary and visual arts competitions. The main ones include: the Czesław Janczarski Competition in 2007 (third place for the short story ‘Aunt Jadzia’), the Little Dong in 2011 (honorary mentions for ‘Żółte kółka’ [Yellow Wheels]), the Feniks in 2012 (first prize for ‘Świętą Urszulę Ledóchowską’ [Saint Urszula Ledóchowska]), the Żółta Ciżemka in 2018 (first prize in the text and illustration category for ‘Wojtek, żołnierz bez munduru’ [Wojtek, the Soldier Without a Uniform]), the Feniks in 2020 (first prize for ‘Dokta. Opowieść o Wandzie Błeńskiej’ [Dokta: A Tale of o Wanda Błeńska]), and the Child-Friendly World Competition 2023 (first prize for ‘Ciocię Jadzię w PRL-u’ [Aunt Jadzia in Communist Poland]). Piotrowska is also the ambassador for the All of Poland Reads to Children Foundation. She was also named Person of Culture 2023 (for the eight parts of Aunt Jadzia). She is the creator of the Aunt Jadzia Festival.
books about Poznań:
Ciocia Jadzia:
for the youngest:
Święci uśmiechnięci series and books about the blessed of Catholic Church:
others:
translation works:
from English:
from Italian:
Chinese:
Czech:
German:
Korean: