Anna Brzezińska (born 1971) is a Polish writer.
Biography
Brzezińska was born in 1971. She was born in
Opole
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and currently lives in
Warsaw
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. She graduated in history at the
Catholic University of Lublin 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 magazine, for which she received the
Janusz A. Zajdel Award. 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),
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
, 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)
Translations to English
Her story "" has been translated to English by Agnieszka Sylwanowicz as “And He Loved Her Till It Hurt” in the ''Chosen by Fate: Zajdel Award Winners Anthology'' (2000).
References
1971 births
Living people
People from Opole
Polish fantasy writers
Central European University alumni
Janusz A. Zajdel Award winners
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