Authors
MARCIN WICHA
Graphic artist and writer, columnist, author of essays and children’s books, born in 1972 in Warsaw, died 2025. He designed covers, posters, and logotypes. For several years he created weekly comic-strip commentaries for ‘Tygodnik Powszechny’ weekly. He has also written texts for, among others, ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ daily as well as ‘Autoportret’, ‘Literatura na Świecie’, ‘Charaktery’, ‘Pismo’, and ‘Polityka’ magazines.
His accolades include the ‘Polityka’ weekly’s 2017 Passport Award for literature and the Nike Literary Award for his book Things I Didn’t Throw Out, which also won the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize and was nominated for Gdynia Literary Prize.
In his autobiographical books Jak przestałem kochać design (How I Stopped Loving Design) and Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem (Things I Didn’t Throw Out), recollections of his childhood and coming-ofage, as well as the realities of late communist Poland, become a point of departure for comments on relations with parents, Jewish origins, and the Polish intelligentsia.
In 2022 Wicha published a collection of feature articles titled Nic drobniej nie będzie (Got No Smaller Change). In the same year, he was also nominated for the Nike Literary Award for his 2021 publication Kierunek zwiedzania (Visitor’s Route), dedicated to the figure of the painter Kazimir Malevich. His next book entitled Gościnne występy. Kawałki o projektowaniu (Guest Appearances. Pieces about Sesign) was published in 2024.
His accolades include the ‘Polityka’ weekly’s 2017 Passport Award for literature and the Nike Literary Award for his book Things I Didn’t Throw Out, which also won the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize and was nominated for Gdynia Literary Prize.
In his autobiographical books Jak przestałem kochać design (How I Stopped Loving Design) and Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem (Things I Didn’t Throw Out), recollections of his childhood and coming-ofage, as well as the realities of late communist Poland, become a point of departure for comments on relations with parents, Jewish origins, and the Polish intelligentsia.
In 2022 Wicha published a collection of feature articles titled Nic drobniej nie będzie (Got No Smaller Change). In the same year, he was also nominated for the Nike Literary Award for his 2021 publication Kierunek zwiedzania (Visitor’s Route), dedicated to the figure of the painter Kazimir Malevich. His next book entitled Gościnne występy. Kawałki o projektowaniu (Guest Appearances. Pieces about Sesign) was published in 2024.
