Dorota Masłowska

Dorota Masłowska studied at University of Warsaw and University of Gdańsk. The recorded working language is Polish and English. The field of work recorded is fiction, literature and opinion journalism. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are hip-hop. Employment is recorded with Newonce.radio. Works named in the authority record are The Queen's Peacock, Snow White and Russian Red, A Couple of Poor, Polish- Speaking Romanians, Honey, I Killed Our Cats, No Matter How Hard We Tried and Dusza światowa. Distinctions recorded are Gold Cross of Merit, Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis, Paszport Polityki and Nike Award.

Masłowska was born in Wejherowo, and grew up there. She applied for the University of Gdańsk's faculty of psychology and was accepted, but left the studies for Warsaw, where she joined the culture studies at the Warsaw University. She first appeared in the mass-media when her debut book Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną (translated to English as either White and Red in the UK or Snow White and Russian Red in the US; literally means Polish-Russian War under White-Red Flag) was published. Largely controversial, mostly because of the language seen by many as vulgar, cynical and simple, the book was praised by many intellectuals as innovative and fresh. Among the most active supporters of Masłowska were Marcin Świetlicki and Polityka weekly staff, most notably renowned writer Jerzy Pilch. A notable example of post-modernist literature, her book became a best-seller in Poland and won Masłowska several notable awards as well as general support among the critics. It was almost immediately translated into several languages, including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Russian, English, Hungarian, Czech and Lithuanian, and won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. Her second novel Paw królowej (The Queen's Peacock) did not gain similar popularity, even though it won the NIKE Literary Award in 2006. As of 2009, Dorota Masłowska's permanent residence is in Kraków. In 2009, she resided in Berlin on a German Academic Exchange Service stipend. She has collaborated with a number of magazines, most notably the Przekrój and Wysokie Obcasy weeklies, as well as Lampa monthly and the quarterly B EAT magazine. Her first play, Dwoje biednych Rumunów mówiących po polsku (A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians), has been translated by Lisa Goldman and Paul Sirett and was performed for the first time in the UK at Soho Theatre from 28 February – 29 March 2008 with a cast featuring Andrew Tiernan, Andrea Riseborough, Howard Ward, Valerie Lilley, Ishia Bennison, John Rogan and Jason Cheater. Neither Goldman nor Sirett know Polish and based their adaptation on a technical translation and a line by line translation with Dorota Maslowska in London in 2007. An American translation of the play by Benjamin Paloff was commissioned by TR Warszawa in 2007 and has been performed in New York. Dorota Maslowska in October 2015 was awarded the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.

2002: Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną. Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża, ISBN 83-86735-87-2 (UK edition: White and Red, Atlantic Books, ISBN 1-84354-423-7; US edition: Snow White and Russian Red, Grove Press, ISBN 0-8021-7001-3) 2005: Paw królowej. Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża, ISBN 83-89603-20-9 (no English translation announced yet) 2006: Dwoje biednych Rumunów mówiących po polsku. Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża, ISBN 83-89603-41-1. Translated into English as A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, by Lisa Goldman and Paul Sirett, Oberon Books Ltd (29 Feb 2008), ISBN 1-84002-846-7, ISBN 978-1-84002-846-1. Staged at Soho Theatre, London, between 28 February – 29 March 2008. 2008: Między nami dobrze jest ("All's Good Between Us"), drama 2010: Schneeweiß und Russenrot, drama 2012: Kochanie, zabiłam nasze koty ("Honey, I Killed Our Cats"), novel 2013: Dusza światowa – interview with Agnieszką Drotkiewicz 2014: Jak zostałam wiedźmą: opowieść autobiograficzna dla dorosłych i dzieci 2017: Jak przejąć kontrolę nad światem, nie wychodząc z domu 2018: Inni ludzie, novel 2020: Jak przejąć kontrolę nad światem 2 2022: Bowie w Warszawie, play 2023: Mam tak samo jak ty 2024: Magiczna rana, novel