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Maciej Hen (born 13 June 1955 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer, translator and journalist.




Life


Maciej Hen is a son of a Polish writer Józef Hen and the late pedagogue and Russian teacher Irena Lebewal from Navariya near Lvov. Both of his parents are of Jewish origin. He attended (but in 1974 left just before the final examination) The National Art High School in Warsaw and in 1979 he completed his studies at the cinematography department of the National Film School in Łódź. On various occasions he worked as a camera operator, a director of photography and a director of documentary films, a still photographer and a photojournalist, a screenwriter, an actor, a journalist, a musician, an English translator and a TV lighting designer. As a journalist he published articles among others in the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.




Career


In 2004, under the pen name Maciej Nawariak, he published his first novel According to Her. In 2015 his second historical novel, Solfatara, appeared and next year it was awarded The Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize and the title of Book of the Year of the Warsaw Premiere of Literature, as well as shortlisted for Angelus Award. In 2019, Hen's third novel, Deutsch for Intermediates, was published by Wydawnictwo Literackie.




Awards


2023 shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize
2016 The title of Book of the Year of the Warsaw Premiere of Literature
2016 The Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize
2016 shortlisted for The Angelus Award
2016 shortlisted for The Norwid Award




Books


Segretario, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie 2023.
According to Her, Holland House Books, trans. by Anna Blasiak, ISBN 9781910688663
(Polish edition Według niej. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Due. 2004 ISBN 83-920561-0-8. Under the pen name Maciej Nawariak)

Solfatara. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 2015 ISBN 978-8328020818
Deutsh dla średnio zaawansowanych (Deutsch for Intermediates). Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2018 ISBN 978-8308068786
Beatlesi w Polsce (The Beatles in Poland). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Agora 2021. ISBN 978-83-268-3670-1




Filmography


1962: Jadą goście jadą [Guests are coming'] – actor
1968: Dzieci z naszej szkoły – actor
1984: Rozalka Olaboga – in part camera operator
1986: Z nakazu serca i rozumu – director of photography
1991: Pogranicze w ogniu – actor
1998: Sprawa Martyniki – script
2006: Fotografie Mojego taty – director, director of photography and music composer
2008: Mata Hari znad Wisły – director, in part director of photography
2013: Zdjęcie od Nasierowskiej, czyli życie wielokrotnie spełnione – in part director of photography
2016: "Nie płacz kiedy odjadę" ‒ in part director of photography




References






External links


"Maciej Hen (Translator of Z miłości do dziecka)". goodreads.com. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
"Six Polish books that should be translated into English". British Council. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
"Maciej Hen". wydawnictwoliterackie.pl. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
"FilmPolski.pl – Maciej Hen". filmpolski.pl. Retrieved 7 December 2019.

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