Michal Witkowski
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Michał Witkowski is a Polish gay
novelist.
His first book, Copyright, published in 2001, was a collection of short stories. On December 17, 2004, Lubiewo was published — a radically queer novel that sold an estimated 15,000 copies. The novel has been translated into German
, English
, Spanish
, Dutch, Finnish
(2007), French
, Russian
, Czech
, Lithuanian
, Ukrainian
and Hungarian
(2010). His next collection of stories Fototapeta (Photo-wallpaper) was published in 2006 by W.A.B.
He is a permanent contributor of Ha!art, a Polish cultural magazine.
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
novelist.
His first book, Copyright, published in 2001, was a collection of short stories. On December 17, 2004, Lubiewo was published — a radically queer novel that sold an estimated 15,000 copies. The novel has been translated into German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, Dutch, Finnish
Finnish language
Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
(2007), French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
, Czech
Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
, Lithuanian
Lithuanian language
Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...
, Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
and Hungarian
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
(2010). His next collection of stories Fototapeta (Photo-wallpaper) was published in 2006 by W.A.B.
He is a permanent contributor of Ha!art, a Polish cultural magazine.
Works
- Copyright (2001). Wydawnictwo Zielona Sowa. ISBN 8372202478
- Lubiewo (2005). Korporacja ha!art. ISBN 8389911043
- Fototapeta (2006). Wydawn. W.A.B. ISBN 837414159X
- Barbara Radziwiłłówna z Jaworzna-Szczakowej (2007) Wydawn. "W.A.B." ISBN 978-83-7414-372-1
- Margot (2009) Wydawnictwo: "Świat Książki", ISBN 978-83-247-1745-3
External links
- Michał Witkowski (PolishPolish languagePolish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
website, with some content in English)