Kinga Maria Dunin-Horkawicz (born 1954 in
Łódź
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...
) is a Polish writer, feminist, and sociologist.
Life
She is a
columnist
A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Column (periodical), Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs. They take the ...
for the ''Wysokie Obcasy'' (women's extra of the ''
Gazeta Wyborcza
(; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish nationwide daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It was launched on 8 May 1989 on the basis of the Polish Round Table Agreement and as a press organ of the Solidarity (Polish trade union), t ...
'') and academic teacher at the
Medical University of Warsaw. Before 1989 she was active in the democratic opposition (
KOR and
samizdat
Samizdat (, , ) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader. The practice of manual rep ...
among others). Member of the New Left intellectual milieu
Krytyka Polityczna
''Krytyka Polityczna'' (; "The Political Critique") is a network of Polish left-wing intellectuals. The network is based around a journal of the same name founded by Sławomir Sierakowski in 2002, but is open to voices from across the political s ...
and of the Polish
Greens 2004.
Zespół KP
(in Polish)
Books
Sociology
* 1991: ''Cudze problemy. Analiza dyskursu publicznego w Polsce'' (Others' Problems: an Analysis of Polish Public Discourse; coauthor)
* 2004: ''Czytając Polskę. Literatura polska po roku 1989 wobec dylematów nowoczesności'' (Reading Poland: Polish post-1989 Literature and the Dilemmas of Modernity)
Feminism
* 1996: ''Tao gospodyni domowej'' (Tao of a Housewife)
* 2000: ''Karoca z dyni'' (A Pumpkin Coach) - nomination for Nike Award
The Nike Literary Award (, pronounced ) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best book of a single living author writing in Polish and published the previous year. It is widely considered the most important award for Polish literatu ...
2001
* 2002: ''Czego chcecie ode mnie, "Wysokie Obcasy"?'' (What do you want from me, "Wysokie Obcasy"?)
* 2007: ''Zadyma'' (A Revolt)
Novels
* 1998: ''Tabu'' (Taboo)
* 1999: ''Obciach'' (Embarrassment)
References
External links
Polish bibliography 1988 - 2001
1954 births
Living people
Writers from Łódź
The Greens (Poland) politicians
Polish feminists
Polish women writers
Polish atheists
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