Sylwia Chutnik

Sylwia Chutnik studied at Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw. The recorded working language is Polish. The field of work recorded is cultural studies, literary activity and culturology. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are prose. Distinctions recorded are Paszport Polityki.

• Name — Sylwia Chutnik • Born — 1979 • Birthplace — Warsaw, Poland • Occupation — novelist, writer, social activist • Awards — Paszport Polityki (2008)

Chutnik graduated in gender studies at Warsaw University. In 2018, she defended her PhD at the Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University. In 2020, she came out in an interview for an LGBTQIA magazine "Replika", talking about her long-term relationship with a man, subsequent relationship with a woman, and being a non-heteronormative mother in Poland.

Her debut novel Kieszonkowy atlas kobiet ("Pocket Atlas of Women") was published in 2008. Her second novel Dzidzia ("Diddums") came out in 2010. She is also a Warsaw city guide and a charity worker. She has published a Warsaw guidebook, called Warszawa kobiet ("Women's Warsaw") which guides people around the lesser known parts of the city where famous women used to live. She is the chairperson of MaMa Foundation which aims to improve the situation of mothers' rights in Poland. Chutnik is a member of an informal group "8 March Women's Coalition". In her works, she focuses on feminism and gender issues, Polish culture and history. Chutnik is a member of The Polish Writers' Association. She hosted a TV literary programme "Cappuccino z książką" (Cappuccion and a book), and "Zapomniani-odzyskani" (Forgotten- found). She has been writing columns to a weekly magazine "Polityka" since 2016. Chutnik writes a column in "Gazeta Stołeczna" and a women's magazine "Pani".

Sylwia Chutnik worked in cultural studies, literary activity, culturology and gender. She belonged to Polish Writers' Union.

Sylwia Chutnik is recorded as writer, cultural studies scholar and feminist.