Janusz Głowacki

Born September 13th, 1938, a writer, a playwright and a scriptwriter of, among others: Hunting Flies by Andrzej Wajda, We Have to Kill This Love by Janusz Morgenstern or A Trip Down the River by Marek Piwowski.

In August 1980, during the strike, he came to the Gdańsk Shipyard, and soon afterwards he wrote a book Moc truchleje / Give Us This Day , based on the events he witnessed, showing the strike through eyes of a simple worker. The novel was withheld by the censorship, but came out in the underground in 1981 and later in Europe and America. It was acclaimed as "the best report on the Polish August."

His theatre plays Cinders, Fortinbras Gets Drunk, Hunting Cockroaches, Antigone in New York, and The Fourth Sister, were staged by the major world scenes, a.o. the Royal Court Theatre in London, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theatre and Roundabout Theatre in NY, the National Theatre in Taipei, theaters in Belgrade, Frankfurt, Seoul, Buenos Aires, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sarayevo, London, Los Angeles, Yale Repertory, Atlanta, New York (Vineyard Theatre), Mexico City, Croatia, Lithuania, Paris, Sydney, Toronto, Marseilles, Lyon, Geneva, Brussels, and many others, and brought him numerous prestigious awards, a.o. the Moliere Award for the Best Production of 1986, the Joseph Kesselring Award 1987, the Hollywood Drama League Critics Award 1987, Le Balladine Award for the Best Play of 1997, and the Grand Prize at the 2001 International Theatre Festival in Dubrovnik.

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