| Mariusz Szczygieł | |
| Birth Name: | Mariusz Szczygieł |
| Birth Date: | 5 September 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Złotoryja, Poland |
| Occupation: | Journalist, writer |
| Language: | Polish |
| Nationality: | Polish |
| Notableworks: | Gottland (2006) Nie ma (2018) |
| Awards: | Beata Pawlak Award (2007) European Book Prize (2009) Nike Award (2019) |
| Alma Mater: | University of Warsaw |
Mariusz Adam Szczygieł (Polish pronunciation: ; born 5 September 1966 Złotoryja, Poland) is a Polish journalist and writer. He is the winner of the 2009 European Book Prize for Gottland and the 2019 Nike Award, the most important prize in Polish literature, for his reportage Nie ma.
He graduated in journalism and political science from the University of Warsaw in 2000. At 16, he began writing for the weekly-paper Na przełaj. In spite of communist-era censorship, he published a shocking collection of reportages titled The Shrift, which were about gay and lesbian youth in Poland.[1]
As a TV presenter of the popular program Na każdy temat (On Every Topic), Szczygieł was the first person in Poland to publicly speak the word "orgasm" on screen.
In 2002, he stopped working for TV Polsat and concentrated on writing for Gazeta Wyborcza. Presently, he is the first assistant manager of the weekly supplement Duży Format and assistant manager of its reportage-section.
His work is cited in every anthology of contemporary Polish journalism . Most notable are his studies of the Czechoslovak, and especially Czech, culture and life-style. His popular book Gottland (2006), is, according to Adam Michnik, the first cubistic reportage of the world. It received the European Book Prize as well as Polish Booksellers Prize as an extremely popular book on everything Czech.
His works have been translated into Czech, English, Estonian, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
Szczygieł is an outspoken atheist.[2] In 2022 in the book Fakty muszą zatańczyć (The Facts Must Dance) he came out as a gay man.[3]
In anthologies