Joanna Fabicka
, b. 1970
A writer, poet, scriptwriter, film editor born in Łódź, Poland. She graduated in film studies from at the University of Łódź, with a thesis on the motifs of the double and the magic murder in Elisa, vida mía [Elisa, My Life] (1977) by Carlos Saura. When working at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź, she edited Sławomir Fabicki’s (her husband’s) Oscar-nominated short movie Męska sprawa [A Man Thing] (2001). She has written many books both for adults, such as Idę w tango. Romans histeryczny [I’m Going on a Bender: A Hysterical Romance] (2008) and Second hand (2013), as well as for children and young adults. Her most popular works in this field are the Rudolf Gąbczak series (the first volume published in 2002, the last to date – in 2017), which has been compared to Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole books, and the critically-acclaimed novel Rutka (2016). Her books have been translated into Russian, Czech, and Ukrainian. She is an admirer of pure nonsense. She has said that if she were not a writer, she would be a chef in her own restaurant, and that in her next life, she would wish to work with young people as a therapist. She has two daughters and currently lives in Warsaw.
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