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Graphic artist and writer, columnist, author of essays and children’s books, born in 1972 in Warsaw. He designs 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- -of-age 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) – referring to the figure of the painter Kazimir Malevich.