Joanna Bator (born 2 February 1968) is a

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, feminist and academic. She specializes in cultural anthropology and

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. She is the recipient of the 2013

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Life and career

She was born to Jewish parents in the town of

Wałbrzych Wałbrzych (; german: Waldenburg; szl, Wałbrzich; sli, label= Lower Silesian, Walmbrig or ''Walmbrich''; cs, Valbřich or ) is a city located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland. From 1975–1998 it was the capital of Wa ...

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...

, south-western Poland. She studied cultural studies at the

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. She also graduated from School of Social Sciences affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her doctoral dissertation concerned the philosophical aspects of the feminist theory and discourse relating to psychoanalysis and postmodernism. In the years 1999–2008 she worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 2007–2011 she lectured at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. She also took part in a number of scholarships including at the New School for Social Research in New York City, New York and Japan Foundation in Tokyo. She is known for her keen interest in Japanese culture. Bator's first book on Japan was ''Japoński wachlarz'' (''The Japanese Fan'') written after her two-year stay in Japan. She has written a number of books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her titles such as ''The Japanese Fan'' and ''Sandy Mountain'' have received wide acclaim in her native Poland. In 2010, she was nominated for Gdynia Literary Prize and

for her book ''Sandy Mountain''. In 2013, her novel ''Ciemno, prawie noc'' (Eng: ''Dark, Almost Night'') won the

, Poland's leading literary award. She has also worked as a columnist for ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' daily as well as ''Pani'' and published articles in such magazines as ''Tygodnik Powszechny'', ''Twórczość'', ''Bluszcz'', ''Czas kultury'' and ''Kultura i społeczeństwo''. She has been a member of jury of the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage, Ryszard Kapuściński Award. In 2014 she was the second Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature at the University of Bern.

Works

* ''Feminism, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis'' (2001) * ''A Woman'' (2002) * ''The Japanese Fan'' (2004) * ''Sandy Mountain'' (2009) * ''Cloudalia'' (2010) * ''Dark, Almost Night'' (2013) * ''A Shark from Yoyogi Park'' (2014) * ''Island Tear'' (2015) * ''Year of the Rabbit'' (2016) * ''Purezento'' (2017)

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