Żanna Słoniowska

Żanna Słoniowska (Ukrainian: Слоньовська Жанна; born 1978) is a Polish novelist and journalist. She was the first winner of the Znak literary prize for her novel The House with the Stained-Glass Window and a Conrad Prize winner.

Żanna Słoniowska
Słoniowska in 2016
Born	1978 (age 46–47) Lviv, Ukraine
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	Ukrainian-Polish
Period	2000s–present
Notable works	The House with the Stained-Glass Window

Biography

Słoniowska was born in Lviv in 1978, in a family with Polish antecedents. She attended the Ukrainian Academy of Printing, following which she worked as a journalist for the television channel NTA.

In 2002, she moved to Poland. She began doctoral studies in Warsaw's University of Social Sciences and Humanities. After her marriage, she moved to Kraków.^[1]

In 2013, she published a historical work The most beautiful photographs of pre-war Lviv, illustrated with fine photographs. The following year, her debut novel The House with the Stained-Glass Window (Polish: Dom z Witrażem) was published.^[2]

Awards and recognition

The House with the Stained-Glass Window

• Znak publishing house's prize for best novel^[3]
• Conrad prize for new writers,^[2][4]
• Shortlisted for the Nike Award in 2016.^[5]

Reception

For The House with the Stained-Glass Window

A reviewer in Polityka said that "the grandeur of the book is impressive - through a small family saga it depicts the history of Ukraine over the last hundred years".^[3] Another called it "a tale saturated with vivid colors, paintings, dreamy moments, ... it is, above all, a moving and insightful saga about women, entangled in history."^[6]

Selected works

• Przedwojenny Lwów. Najpiękniejsze fotografie [The most beautiful photographs of pre-war Lviv]. RM. 2013. ISBN 978-83-7773-053-9.
• Dom z witrażem [The House with the Stained-Glass Window]. Translated by Lloyd-Jones, Antonia. London: MacLehose. 2017. ISBN 978-0857057136.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

External links

• Kowalczyk, Janusz R (17 April 2014). "Żanna Słoniowska, "Przedwojenny Lwów. Najpiękniejsze fotografie"" (in Polish). Retrieved 20 August 2017.
• Sloniowska, Zanna (2022-03-08). "I left Ukraine 20 years ago. It never left me". New York Times. Retrieved 2022-03-09.