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Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
About Michał Witkowski
- Michal Witkowski (born 17 January 1975, in Wroclaw, Poland) is a Polish novelist. His first "official" work, Copyright, published in 2001, was a collection of short stories.
- However, he had previously published, Zgorszeni wstaja od stolów in 1997 as Michal S.
- Witkowski, with the S.
- standing for Sebastian.On December 17, 2004, Lubiewo was published — a radically queer novel that sold an estimated 15,000 copies.
- The novel has been translated into German, English (Lovetown), Spanish, Dutch, Finnish (2007), French, Russian, Czech, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Slovenian (2010) and Hungarian (2010).
- His next collection of stories Fototapeta (Photo-wallpaper) was published in 2006 by W.A.B.
- More recently, Witkowski has published two "queer crime novels", in which a gay writer named Michal Witkowski acts as first-person narrator and detective: Drwal (The Woodcutter, 2011) and Zbrodniarz i dziewczyna (The Criminal and the Girl, 2014). Witkowski was nominated three times for the Nike Award, Poland's best-known literary award: in 2006 for Lubiewo (shortlist), in 2007 for Barbara Radziwillówna z Jaworzna-Szczakowej (longlist), and in 2012 for Drwal (longlist).
- Lubiewo won the Gdynia Literary Prize in 2006, and Barbara Radziwillówna z Jaworzna-Szczakowej was awarded the Paszport Polityki in 2007.
- Lovetown, the English translation of Lubiewo was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2011. He is a permanent contributor of Ha!art, a Polish cultural magazine and since July 2014 a contributor to Wprost, having previously worked for six years for Polityka.
- He is also author of a fashion blog, Fashion Pathology. He describes himself as a homosexual He rejects the label "gay" as a personal identity as referring to a subculture in the queer community, those commonly represented by popular culture.
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