Nina Witoszek-FitzPatrick, Polish writer, playwright, film script writer and research professor at Oslo University and at Oxford University. Her short story collection Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia (New York: Penguin Books 1993) was the winner of The Irish Times / Air Lingus Fiction Award. The author lost the award when it turned out that she couldn't prove her Irish ancestry. She has published, among others, The Loves of Faustyna (Fourth Estate / Penguin 1995), Norske naturmytologier (Norwegian Nature Mythologies, Pax 1998) and, recently, the novel Daimons (Boston: Justin Charles 2003; Oslo: Pax 2003). Most of FitzPatrick's work before 2001 has been written in collaboration with her late husband Pat Sheeran. In 2005 she was awarded the prestigious Freedom of Expression Prize for "bringing novel, Eastern European perspectives into the Scandinavian public debate". She devoted part of the award to establishing "Solidarity Europe" Association.
Nina Witoszek-FitzPatrick, polska pisarka, dramaturg, autorka scenariuszy filmowych, profesor uniwersytetów w Oslo i w Oksfordzie. Jej zbiór opowiadan Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia (Nowy Jork: Penguin Books 1993) otrzymal The Irish Times / Air Lingus Fiction Award za najlepszy irlandzki debiut. Autorka stracila nagrode, gdy okazalo sie, ze nie mogla udowodnic swojego irlandzkiego pochodzenia. Witoszek-FitzPatrick napisala, miedzy innymi, The Loves of Faustyna (Amory Faustyny, Fourth Estate / Penguin 1995), Norske naturmytologier (Norweskie mitologie natury, Pax 1998), a ostatnio powiesc Daimons (Boston: Justin Charles 2003). Wspolautorem wiekszosci publikacji przed rokiem 2001 byl swp Pat Sheeran. W 2005 Witoszek-FitzPatrick otrzymala prestizowa nagroda norweskiej Fundacji Wolnego Slowa za "wniesienie nowych, wschodnio-Europejskich perspektyw do skandynawskiej dyskusji publicznej". Czesc nagrody poswiecila na stworzenie Stowarzyszenia "Solidarnosc Europa."
Contact details:
Nina Witoszek
Centre for Development and The Environment
P.O.Box 1116, Blindern
N-0317 Oslo, Norway
nina.witoszek@sum.uio.no
Phone: +47 22 85 89 00
Fax: +47 22 85 89 20
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