Resident

Aleksander Kaczorowski
From 14 March to 5 April 2022

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Aleksander Kaczorowski, born in 1969, is a Polish journalist, editor, translator and author of biographical works, the most recent of which is Ota Pavel. Pod powierzchnią (Czarne, 2018), which won the 2018 Warsaw Literary Award for the Book of the Year and the Upper Silesian Literary Award Juliusz for the best Polish biography of 2018, and was shortlisted for the Nike Literary Award. His other biographies are Hrabal. Słodka apokalipsa (Czarne, 2016) and Havel. Zemsta bezsilnych (Czarne, 2014).