Katarzyna Ryrych by Wydawnictwo Literatura, 2020. Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (accessed: December 21, 2021).
Katarzyna Ryrych
, b. 1959
Katarzyna Ryrych (1959) graduated in English Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She is a painter, translator and author writing for adults and children. Many of her works received awards, including Siedem sowich piór [Seven Owl’s Feathers] from 2008, Łopianowe pole [The Burdock Field] from 2017 (Polish IBBY Section "Book of the Year" Award), Wyspa mojej siostry [My Sister’s Island] from 2011 ("ABCXXXI – Cała Polska czyta dzieciom" Foundation’s Astrid Lindgren Award, listed on the IBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities) and O Stephenie Hawkingu, czarnej dziurze i myszach podpodłogowych [About Stephen Hawking, the Black Hole, and Under the Floor Mice] from 2013 ("ABCXXXI – Cała Polska czyta dzieciom" Foundation’s Astrid Lindgren Award, Kornel Makuszyński Literary Award).
Sources:
Profile at wydawnictwoliteratura.pl (accessed: December 6, 2018).
Profile at ibby.pl (accessed: December 6, 2018).
"ABCXXXI – Cała Polska czyta dzieciom" Foundation’s Astrid Lindgren Award (accessed: December 6, 2018).
Bio prepared by Krzysztof Rybak, University of Warsaw, rybak.km@gmail.com
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