Joanna Bator

Joanna Bator in 2012

Joanna Bator (born 2 February 1968) is a Polish novelist, journalist and academic. She was born in the town of Wałbrzych in south-western Poland not Silesia. She has written a number of books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her titles such as The Japanese Fan and Sandy Mountain have received wide acclaim in her native Poland.^[1] In 2010, she was nominated for Gdynia Literary Prize for her book Sandy Mountain.^[2] In 2013, her novel Ciemno, prawie noc (Eng: Dark, Almost Night) won the Nike Award, Poland's leading literary award.^[3][4]

Works

• Feminism, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis (2001)
• A Woman (2002)
• The Japanese Fan (2004)
• Sandy Mountain (2009)
• Cloudalia (2010)
• Dark, Almost Night

References

1. Profile
2. "Nominacje 2010 – Proza" (in Polish). Nagroda Literacka Gdynia. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
3. "Nike 2013". Culture.pl. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
4. Tadeusz Sobolewski, Michał Wybieralski (6 October 2013). "Nike 2013 dla Joanny Bator za książkę "Ciemno, prawie noc"". Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). Retrieved October 17, 2013.