MAGDALENA GRZEBAŁKOWSKA — AUTHOR'S MEETING

The Castle Culture Centre in Jelenia Góra invites you to a meeting with Magdalena Grzebałkowska, renowned writer and reporter, author of widely read biographies: Zdzisław and Tomasz Beksiński, Krzysztof Komeda, priest Jan Twardowski, Maria Konopnicka. Grzebałkowska is a graduate of history at the University of Gdańsk, and has been working for Gazeta Wyborcza since 1998. In 2016, she was nominated for the Nike Literary Award for her 1945 book War and Peace and won the Gazeta Wyborcza Readers' Award. Beksinski. Double portrait, awarded the Silesian Literary Laurel (2014). In the book Komeda, published in 2017. The personal life of jazz described the history of jazz in the PRL.

Moderator of the meeting: Beata Dżon-Ozimek — publicist, journalist, co-author of documentaries and television reports. She collaborates with the weeklies “Przegląd” and “Angora”, has published in “Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Focus Historia”. The author of the autobiographical translation of Krystyna Chiger's book “The Girl in the Green Sweater”, for which she received the prize of the club of young historians of the city of Lviv, and co-author (with Michał Olszewski) of the book “Birds scream constantly. The story of Günther Niethammer, SS man and ornithologist from Auschwitz”, nominated for the Upper Silesian Literary Prize “Juliusz”.