| Marcin Wicha | |
| Birth Date: | 1972 |
| Birth Place: | Warsaw, Polish People's Republic |
| Occupation: | writer, essayist, graphic designer |
Marcin Wicha (born 1972, in Warsaw, Polish People's Republic) is a Polish graphic designer, children's author, and essayist.
Wicha was born in Warsaw in 1972, to a family of Jewish origin the son of Piotr Wicha (1946–2006), an architect, and his wife, Joanna Rabanowska-Wicha (1946–2015), the grandson of Jan Rabanowski from his father's side, who was a politician and minister of communications of Poland during the Communist period and of Władysław Wicha from his mother's side, who served as Ministry of Interior.
He has been a cartoonist for the Catholic weekly magazine Tygodnik Powszechny, and has contributed cartoons to the monthly magazine Charaktery and the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.[1]
He has written a number of children's books.[2]
His 2017 book Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem received the 2017 Polityka Passport for literature,[3] the 2018 Nike Literary Award, and the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award,[4] and was shortlisted for the Gdynia Literary Prize.[5] It was translated into English and published in 2021 under the title Things I Didn't Throw Out.[6] It is partly an autobiographical novel and partly a meditation on the loss of loved ones.[7] In translation it was awarded a PEN Translates Award by English PEN in 2021.[8]