Maciej Hen Explained

Maciej Hen
Birth Date:	1955 6, df=y
Birth Place:	Warsaw, Poland
Nationality:	Polish
Occupation:	Writer

Maciej Hen (born 13 June 1955 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer, translator and journalist.

Life

Maciej Hen is a son of a Polish writer Józef Hen and the late pedagogue and Russian teacher Irena Lebewal from Navariya near Lvov. Both of his parents are of Jewish origin. He attended (but in 1974 left just before the final examination) The National Art High School in Warsaw and in 1979 he completed his studies at the cinematography department of the National Film School in Łódź. On various occasions he worked as a camera operator, a director of photography and a director of documentary films, a still photographer and a photojournalist, a screenwriter, an actor, a journalist, a musician, an English translator and a TV lighting designer. As a journalist he published articles among others in the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

Career

In 2004, under the pen name Maciej Nawariak, he published his first novel According to Her. In 2015 his second historical novel, Solfatara, appeared and next year it was awarded The Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize^[1] and the title of Book of the Year of the Warsaw Premiere of Literature, as well as shortlisted for Angelus Award. In 2019, Hen's third novel, Deutsch for Intermediates, was published by Wydawnictwo Literackie.

Awards

• 2023 shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize^[2]
• 2016 The title of Book of the Year of the Warsaw Premiere of Literature
• 2016 The Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize
• 2016 shortlisted for The Angelus Award^[3]
• 2016 shortlisted for The Norwid Award

Books

• Segretario, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie 2023.
• According to Her,^[4] Holland House Books, trans. by Anna Blasiak,

(Polish edition Według niej. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Due. 2004 . Under the pen name Maciej Nawariak)

• Solfatara. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 2015
• Deutsh dla średnio zaawansowanych^[5] (Deutsch for Intermediates). Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2018
• Beatlesi w Polsce (The Beatles in Poland). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Agora 2021.

Filmography

• 1962: Jadą goście jadą [Guests are coming'] – actor
• 1968: Dzieci z naszej szkoły – actor
• 1984: Rozalka Olaboga – in part camera operator
• 1986: Z nakazu serca i rozumu – director of photography
• 1991: Pogranicze w ogniu – actor
• 1998: Sprawa Martyniki – script
• 2006: Fotografie Mojego taty – director, director of photography and music composer
• 2008: Mata Hari znad Wisły – director, in part director of photography
• 2013: Zdjęcie od Nasierowskiej, czyli życie wielokrotnie spełnione – in part director of photography
• 2016: "Nie płacz kiedy odjadę" ‒ in part director of photography

External links

• Web site: Maciej Hen (Translator of Z miłości do dziecka). goodreads.com. 7 December 2019.
• Web site: Six Polish books that should be translated into English. British Council. 7 December 2019.
• Web site: Maciej Hen. wydawnictwoliterackie.pl. 7 December 2019.
• Web site: FilmPolski.pl – Maciej Hen. filmpolski.pl. 7 December 2019.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prize : Gombrowicz. muzeumgombrowicza.pl. 7 December 2019.
2. https://www.ebrd.com/news/2023/ebrd-literature-prize-2023-shortlist-announcement.html EBRD Literature Prize 2023: shortlist announcement
3. Web site: Finał "Angelusa" – Solfatara. angelus.com.pl. 7 December 2019.
4. News: Senior . Antonia . 2023-07-07 . The latest historical fiction for October 2022 — the first black Briton to vote in a general election . en . 2023-07-07 . 0140-0460.
5. Web site: A meeting with Maciej Hen about his new novel. – Jan Karski Society. en.jankarski.org.pl. 12 October 2019. 7 December 2019.