Anna Janko
Anna Janko (born Aneta Jankowska, 27 August 1957), is a Polish poet, writer, columnist and literary critic. Life Aneta Jankowska was born in Rybnik, in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, 27 August 1957. She is the daughter of Teresa Ferenc (born in 1934) and Zbigniew Jankowski. Her mother, as a 9-year-old child, survived the massacre carried out by the German army in the village of Sochy. Janko presented the event in her book Mała Zagłada (A Little Annihilation), published in 2015, which won the "Gryfia" Literary Award. As a poet, she debuted in 1977. In the second half of the 1970s, she was associated with the poetry Nowa Prywatność (New Privacy). She collaborated with the Wrocław monthly magazine Odra, the Second Program of Polish Radio, and the magazine Pani. She currently cooperates with Zwierciadło. She is a member of the PEN-club and the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich (The Association of Polish Writers). Olga Tokarczuk, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (2018), and winner of The Man Booker International Prize (2018) said about the book A Little Annihilation (Mała Zagłada): "Scenes from the war live on as trauma in the memory of the next generation. A Little Annihilation by Anna Janko is an extraordinarily personal and powerful account of how the worst wartime atrocities affect ordinary people and are seldom recorded in the official histories." Critic Artur Sandauer said about Anna Janko: "A female Rimbaud". Publications Poetry List do królika doświadczalnego, 1977 ("Letter to a Guinea Pig") Wykluwa się staruszka, 1979 Diabłu świeca, 1980 Koronki na rany, 1989 Zabici czasem długo stoją, 1995 ("The dead sometimes stand for a long time") Świetlisty cudzoziemiec, 2000 ("A shining foreigner") Du bist Der, niemieckojęzyczny wybór wierszy, Berlin, 2000 (Du bist Der, German-language selection of poems", Berlin) Wiersze z cieniem, 2010 ("Poems with shadows") Miłość, śmierć i inne wzory, 2016 ("Love, death and other patterns") Prose Dziewczyna z zapałkami, Nowy Świat 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012 (Wydawnictwo Literackie) (Girl with Matches) Maciupek i Maleńtas. Niezwykłe przygody w Brzuchu Mamy, Nasza Księgarnia 2012 ("Maciupek and Maleńtas. Unusual adventures in Mother's Belly.") Pasja według św. Hanki, Wydawnictwo Literackie 2012 ("Passion according to st. Hanka") Boscy i nieznośni. Niezwykłe biografie, Wydawnictwo Zwierciadło, 2012 ("Divine and unbearable. Unusual biographies") (about, among others, Margaret Mitchell, Mia Farrow, Czesław Miłosz, and Dustin Hoffman) Mała zagłada (A Little Annihilation), Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2015 Drama Rzeź lalek, 1981, Teatr Współczesny w Szczecinie, reż. Andrzej Chrzanowski. ("Doll slaughter") Śmierć to dobry początek, słuchowisko radiowe, 2 program Polskiego Radia, 2005, reż. Henryk Rozen. ("Death is a good start", a radio play, 2nd program of Polish Radio) Awards and honors Nagroda Młodych im Włodzimierza Pietrzaka za twórczość poetycką, 1980. ("Włodzimierz Pietrzak Youth Award for poetry") Nagroda Gdańska Książka Roku za tom Diabłu świeca, 1981. ("Gdańsk Book of the Year Award") Nagroda Związku Pisarzy Niezależnych w Dreźnie za twórczość poetycką, 1993. ("Award of the Union of Independent Writers in Dresden for poetic work") Nominacja do Nagrody Literackiej Nike za tom Świetlisty cudzoziemiec, 2001. ("Nomination for the Nike Literary Award for the volume