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Weronika Murek
Polish playwright From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Weronika Murek (born 1989) is a Polish playwright, short story writer and essayist.
Early life and education
Weronika Murek was born in 1989, in Bytom.[1] She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia.[1]
Career
Murek has written plays, short stories[2] and essays.[3] She won the Gdynia Drama Award 2015 for the play Feinweinblein set in the 1950s Upper Silesia.[1] Her debut collection of short stories Uprawa roślin południowych metodą Miczurina was nominated for the Paszport Polityki 2015 in the literature category, the Nike Award 2016,[4] the Gdynia Literary Prize 2016[4] and the Conrad Award 2016.[5] The collection won the Witold Gombrowicz literary award in 2016.[4] Murek gained her second Paszport Polityki nomination with the 2019 collection of plays called Feinweinblein.[2]
Apart from writing her own plays, Murek has also worked on adaptating the work of others to the stage.[2] For example, she cooperated with Grzegorz Jarzyna to adapt a work by Lu Xun or create together a new production of The Tempest.[2]
Murek's works have been translated into Czech, French, Serbian and Hungarian.[4] An excerpt from her short story collection was published in English on the European Literature Network website.[6]
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