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Waldemar Bawołek
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(b. 1962) – prose writer.
Graduate of the Post-Secondary Medical College in Kraków. Initially he worked as a hygiene instructor at a sanitary-epidemiological station in Tarnów, then undertook various work at different companies in Lesser Poland: in procurement, at a bakery, as a farm labourer, construction worker and warehouseman. He has lived for his whole life in Ciężkowice.
In the years 1987-88 he published in the magazine “Twórczość”. He debuted as a prose writer in 1996 with a short story collection entitled “Delectatio morosa”. Subsequent books brought him many awards and nominations. He was the winner of a competition organised by “Nowy Nurt” and the publisher Wydawnictwo Kurpisz, and the National Competition of the Zielona Sowa Publishing House. He was nominated for the Gdynia Literary Prize three times: in 2015 for the novel “To co obok” (What is Close), in 2018 for the novel “Echo słońca” (The Echo of the Sun) and in 2021 for the book “Pomarli” (The Dead), for which he received the first prize. This same book also brought him a nomination for the Nike Literary Award in the same year.
Bibliography
collection of short stories:
- Delectatio morosa, Warsaw: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1996.
- La petite mort, Warsaw: Nisza, 2018.
novels:
- Raz dokoła, Cracow: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2005.
- Humoreska, Warsaw: Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 2012.
- To co obok, Szczecin: Forma, Fundacja Literatury im. Henryka Berezy, 2014.
- Echo słońca, Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2017.
- Bimetal, Warsaw: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 2019.
- Pomarli, Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2020.
- Furtka przy dozorcy, Warsaw: Nisza, 2021.
- Skrawki dla Iriny, Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2022.
- Prowincja/Warszawa, Warsaw: Nisza, 2024.
- Litania, Warsaw: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 2025.
anthologies:
- Antologia współczesnych polskich opowiadań, edit. P. Nowakowski, A. Sroka, Szczecin: Forma, 2011.
- Nadzieja, Warsaw: Agora, 2020.
- Antologia 2012–2021: proza, selection by P. Nowakowski, Szczecin: Fundacja Literatury im. Henryka Berezy, 2022.
- Włoski polskie. Antologia opowiadań, edit. R. Bożek, A. Wiedemann, Białystok–Karpiówka: Fundacja Sąsiedzi, Związek Pisarzy ze Wsi, 2023.
- Ptaszki polskie. Antologia opowiadań, edit. R. Bożek, A. Wiedemann, Warsaw: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Związek Pisarzy ze Wsi, 2025.
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