Paweł Marek Huelle (10 September 1957 – 27 November 2023) was a Polish

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writer.

Life and career

Huelle studied

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Gdańsk University Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

and, in 1980, participated in the efforts to establish an independent student organization. He later became a

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and worked for the press service of

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(Solidarity). After the declaration of

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in 1981, he cooperated with the

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movement. He also taught literature, philosophy and history. He was the director of

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from 1994 to 1999 and served as the literary manager for the . His literary debut came in 1987 with a novel ' (translated as ''Who was David Weiser?''), which was made into a film (') by

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in 2000. He was also a member of the Polish

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. In 2001, he won the Paszport Polityki Award for his book ''Mercedes-Benz. Z listów do Hrabala'', and in 2008 was nominated for the

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for his novel ''Ostatnia wieczerza'' ("The Last Supper"). In 2012, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the

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by President

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. In 2014, he received the Silver

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. His wife was painter . Huelle died in Gdańsk on 27 November 2023, at the age of 66.Paweł Huelle nie żyje. Pisarz miał 66 lat
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Bibliography

*''Weiser Dawidek'' (1987) *''Opowiadania na czas przeprowadzki'' (1991) (trans. ''Moving House and Other Stories'' Bloomsbury 1994) *''Wiersze'' (1994) *''Pierwsza miłość i inne opowiadania'' (1996) (trans. "The first love and other stories") *''Mercedes-Benz. Z listów do Hrabala.'' (2001) (trans. ''Mercedes Benz'' Serpent's Tail 2005) *''Hans Castorp w Sopocie. Zaginiony rozdział z 'Czarodziejskiej Góry (2002) (trans. ''Castorp'' Serpent's Tail 2007) *''Byłem samotny i szczęśliwy'' (2002) (trans. "I was lonely and happy") *''Ostatnia Wieczerza'' (2007) (trans. ''The Last Supper'' Serpent's Tail 2008)
The Gift of Freedom
short essay, English, June 2009 Works in Translation *''Who Was David Weiser?'' Bloomsbury 1991 *''Castorp'' Serpent's Tail 2007, *''Mercedes-Benz'' Serpent's Tail 2005, *''The Last Supper'' Serpent's Tail 2008, *''Moving House and Other Stories'' Bloomsbury 1996, *''Cold Sea Stories'' Comma Press 2012,

External links

Paweł Huelle
at Culture.pl

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Huelle, Pawel 1957 births 2023 deaths Writers from Gdańsk Polish male writers University of Gdańsk alumni International Writing Program alumni Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis