Anna Brzezińska (born 8 June 1971).
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'', April 2004
Biography
Brzezińska was born in Opole
Opole (; german: Oppeln ; szl, Ôpole) ;
* Silesian:
** Silesian PLS alphabet: ''Ôpole''
** Steuer's Silesian alphabet: ''Uopole''
* Silesian German: ''Uppeln''
* Czech: ''Opolí''
* Latin: ''Oppelia'', ''Oppolia'', ''Opulia'' is a city l ...
and currently lives in Warsaw
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. She graduated in history at the Catholic University of Lublin
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin ( pl, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, la, Universitas Catholica Lublinensis Ioannis Pauli II, abbreviation KUL), established in 1918. It is the only private college in Poland with the s ...
and defended her PhD thesis in medieval history at the Central European University
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in Budapest
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. Her literary debut was her short story "A kochał ją, że strach", published in 1998 in the Magia i Miecz
''Magia i Miecz'' ( Polish for: ''Magic and Sword'') was the first RPG-oriented magazine in Poland. Started in 1993, it ceased publishing in 2002 after 103 issues. The publisher was Wydawnictwo MAG. Tomasz Kołodziejczak served as the editor of ...
magazine, for which she received the Janusz A. Zajdel Award
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is the annual award given by the Polish science fiction and fantasy fandom for the best stories published in the previous year. The winners are chose ...
. Later she won the Zajdel Award also for the novel ''Żmijowa harfa'' and the short story ''Wody głębokie jak niebo''. Brzezińska is a co-owner of the RUNA publishing house. In the Internet she uses the nickname Sigrid.
Bibliography
Novels
*''Zbójecki Gościniec'' (Bandit's Highway) - NOWA (1999); revised version published as ''Plewy na wietrze'' (Chaff in the Wind) - RUNA (2006)
*''Żmijowa harfa'' (A Drake Harp) - NOWA (2000)
*''Letni deszcz. Kielich'' (Summer Rain. Cup) - RUNA (2004)
*''Za króla, ojczyznę i garść złota'' (For the King, the Country and the Handful of Gold) - in collaboration with Grzegorz Wiśniewski, RUNA 2007
*''Na ziemi niczyjej'' (On No Man's Land) - in collaboration with Grzegorz Wiśniewski, RUNA 2008
*''Letni deszcz. Sztylet'' (Summer Rain. Dagger) - RUNA (2009)
* ''Córki Wawelu. Opowieść o jagiellońskich królewnach'' (Daughters of Wawel. The story of the Jagiellonian princesses), Cracow, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2017.
Short story collections
*''Opowieści z Wilżyńskiej Doliny'' (Tales from the Wilzynska Valley) - RUNA (2002)
*''Wody głębokie jak niebo'' (Waters as Deep as the Sky) - RUNA (2005)
*''Wiedźma z Wilżyńskiej Doliny'' (The Witch of the Wilzynska Valley) - RUNA (2010)
References
1971 births
Living people
People from Opole
Polish fantasy writers
Central European University alumni
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