Janusz Głowacki
Janusz Głowacki, Warsaw (Poland), June 2004
Janusz Głowacki (born September 13, 1938, Poznań, Poland) is a Polish-American author and screenwriter.[1]
Głowacki wrote the screenplay for Andrzej Wajda's Polowanie na muchy (1969) (The Hunting of Flies) and co-wrote the screenplay of the popular Polish movie Rejs (The Cruise), released in 1970.
He emigrated in 1981 to New York City in the wake of the imposition of martial law on Poland by its Communist government. There he was nominated for The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play for Antigone in New York (1994).[2] He is prominent in New York society and the arts.
Awards and honours
- 2013 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, finalist, Good Night, Dzerzi![3]
References
- ↑ Trojanowska, Tamara (2003), Stephan, Halina, ed., "Many happy returns: Janusz Głowacki and his exilic experience", Living in Translation: Polish Writers in America, Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics Series (Rodopi) 38, p. 259, ISBN 9042010169.
- ↑ Helen Hayes Award Nominees & Recipients, theatreWashington, retrieved 2013-02-10.
- ↑ "Edition 2013". Jan Michalski Foundation. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
External links
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- Janusz Glowacki on Judyta Papp's photos, Warsaw 2005 - 2009
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