Janusz Andrzej Głowacki (13 September 1938 – 19 August 2017), better known as Janusz Głowacki or colloquially simply as Głowa, was a Polish playwright, essayist and screenwriter. Głowacki was the recipient of multiple awards and honours, including Guggenheim Fellowship, two Nike Award nominations and BAFTA Award nomination. He was awarded the Gloria Artis Gold Medal in 2005 for his contribution to Polish culture, and in 2014, the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Janusz Andrzej Głowacki (13 September 1938 – 19 August 2017), better known as Janusz Głowacki or colloquially simply as Głowa, was a Polish playwright, essayist and screenwriter. Głowacki was the recipient of multiple awards and honours, including Guggenheim Fellowship, two Nike Award nominations and BAFTA Award nomination. He was awarded the Gloria Artis Gold Medal in 2005 for his contribution to Polish culture, and in 2014, the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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Biography Janusz Andrzej Głowacki was born into an intelligentsia family on 13 September 1938 in Poznań. He was the son of Helena Głowacka (née Helena Rudzka, d. 1991), a literary editor, sister of Polish character actor, Kazimierz Rudzki; and Jerzy Głowacki, a crime fiction novelist. Głowacki appeared in two plays produced by the Students' Satirical Theatre during his high school years and was interested in serious theater, which led to his enrollment to the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. He attended Academy, but by his own account had problems adjusting to the college, and dropped out. He later attended the University of Warsaw, where he studied both history and Polish philology and eventually earned a Master of Arts in the latter in 1961. He began his literary career by publishing his collections of short stories depicting the cultural and social reality of the 1960s and 1970s in Poland, such as The Nonsense Spinner (1968) and The New La-ba-da Dance (1970). His works achieved great popularity and made him famous, thanks especially to his satirical portrayal of social phenomena in regularly published articles. He wrote the screenplay for Andrzej Wajda's Polowanie na muchy (1969) (Hunting Flies) and…
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Awards and honours
1982: The Guardian and The Times named Cinders the best play of the year
1987: American Theatre Critics Association Award for Hunting Cockroaches
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1987: Hollywood Drama League Critics Award
1987: Time Magazine named Hunting Cockroaches the best play of the year
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1988: National Endowment for the Arts
1993: Time Magazine named Antigone in New York one of the best plays of the year
1994: Nomination for The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play for Antigone in New York
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1997: Students of Sorbonne Award, Paris
1998: Critics Award for Antigone in New York, staged in Proscenium Theatre in Paris
1999: Tony Cox Award at Nantucket Film Festival
2001: The Fourth Sister wins at International Theatre Festival in Dubrovnik
2002: Grand Prix for the best author at "Rzeczywistość przedstawiona" Festival
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2002: Nomination for Nike Award
2003: Grand Prix at Two Theatres Festival
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2005: Śląski Wawrzyn Literacki
2005: Award of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for literature
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2005: Nomination for Nike Award
2011: Czesław Miłosz Award given by US Embassy in Warsaw
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2013: Gustaw Award
2013: Special Award "Diamond of Polish Radio Three"
2013: Neptune Award - Gdańsk Literary Award
2013: Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, finalist, Good Night, Dzerzi!
2018: Winner of European Film Award for Best Screenplay for Cold War (with Paweł Pawlikowski)
2019: Nomination for BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay (with Paweł Pawlikowski)
