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Anna Janko
Birth Name:Aneta Jankowska
Birth Date:27 August 1957
Birth Place:Rybnik, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Occupation:poet, writer, columnist, literary critic
Nationality:Polish
Awards:
  • Youth Award named Włodzimierz Pietrzak for poetry (1980).,[1]
  • Literary Award of Władysław Reymont, for the novel Girl with Matches (2008),[2]
  • Literary Award for the author of "Gryfia" 2016 for the book Mała Zagłada (A Little Annihilation)
Notableworks:A Little Annihilation (Mała Zagłada)

Anna Janko (born Aneta Jankowska, 27 August 1957), is a Polish poet, writer, columnist and literary critic.

Life

Aneta Jankowska was born in Rybnik, in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, 27 August 1957. She is the daughter of Teresa Ferenc (born in 1934) and Zbigniew Jankowski. Her mother, as a 9-year-old child, survived the massacre carried out by the German army in the village of Sochy. Janko presented the event in her book Mała Zagłada (A Little Annihilation),[3] [4] [5] published in 2015, which won the "Gryfia" Literary Award.[6]

As a poet, she debuted in 1977. In the second half of the 1970s, she was associated with the poetry Nowa Prywatność (New Privacy).[7] She collaborated with the Wrocław monthly magazine Odra, the Second Program of Polish Radio, and the magazine Pani. She currently cooperates with Zwierciadło.

She is a member of the PEN-club and the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich (The Association of Polish Writers).

Olga Tokarczuk, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (2018), and winner of The Man Booker International Prize (2018) said about the book A Little Annihilation (Mała Zagłada): "Scenes from the war live on as trauma in the memory of the next generation. A Little Annihilation by Anna Janko is an extraordinarily personal and powerful account of how the worst wartime atrocities affect ordinary people and are seldom recorded in the official histories."[8]

Critic Artur Sandauer said about Anna Janko: "A female Rimbaud".[9]

Publications

Poetry
Prose
Drama

Awards and honors

See also

References

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich Oddział Warszawa. Anna Janko . 9 February 2020 . pl . Association of Polish Writers Warsaw Branch. Anna Janko.
  2. Web site: Laureaci Nagrody Literackiej im. Władysława Reymonta w latach 1994 – 2009 . 29 January 2020 . pl . Winners of the Literary Award Władysław Reymont in the years 1994 – 2009.
  3. Web site: Rzeź w Sochach: ... i rozstrzelali ich wszystkich . 15 April 2014 . 29 January 2020 . pl . Slaughter in Sochy: ... and they shot them all.
  4. Web site: Anna Janko on the shortlist for the Angelus Award! . 6 September 2016 . 29 January 2020 . en.
  5. Web site: A Little Annihilation by Anna Janko, Philip Boehm (Translator) . 29 January 2020 . en.
  6. Web site: "Gryfia" dla Anny Janko . 26 June 2016 . 29 January 2020 . pl . "Gryfia" for Anna Janko.
  7. Book: Gazda, Grzegorz . Słownik europejskich kierunków i grup literackich XX wieku . Dictionary of 20th-century international trends and literary groups . pl . Warsaw . Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN . 978-83-01-15724-1.
  8. Web site: A Little Annihilation . 10 February 2020 . en.
  9. Web site: The Luminous Foreigner – Anna Janko . 10 February 2020 . en.
  10. Web site: Polish Book Institute. Anna Janko . 9 February 2020 . pl . Polish Book Institute. Anna Janko.
  11. Web site: Boscy i nieznośni. Niezwykłe biografie, Anna Janko . 14 November 2012 . 10 February 2020 . pl . Divine and unbearable. Unusual biographies, Anna Janko.
  12. Web site: Laureaci Nagrody Literackiej im. Władysława Reymonta w latach 1994 – 2009 . 29 January 2020 . pl . Winners of the Literary Award Władysław Reymont in the years 1994 – 2009.
  13. Web site: Nominacje do Nagrody Identitas 2015 . 13 November 2015 . 29 January 2020 . pl . Nominations for the Identitas 2015 Award.
  14. Web site: Anna Janko z Nagrodą "Nowych Książek" . 8 June 2018 . 29 January 2020 . pl . Anna Janko with the "New Books" Award.
  15. Web site: Finałowa siódemka XI edycji "Angelusa" . 5 September 2016 . 29 January 2020 . pl . The final seven of the 11th edition of "Angelus".