Warsaw
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) is a Polish writer, traveler, journalist and classical musician. He is the author of novels, books for children and travel guides, and is also a television, radio and press journalist and TV personality.
Career
He made his literary debut in 1987 with the collection of stories ''Fairy Tales from The Tatra Mountains''. He graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University in Warsaw, a musical conservatorium and academy, he professionally plays the violin and viola. From 1994, for several years he combined his musical career as a violist in the
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
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and on "Polish Broadway" – ROMA Musical Theater, with journalistic work as the head of the foreign departments in magazines: Viva!, Gala, and PANI Magazine. He was specialized in interviews with world famous actors, musicians, filmmakers and politicians, he conducted interviews with
Woody Allen
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,
Hillary Clinton
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Angelina Jolie
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,
Brad Pitt
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,
Hugh Grant
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,
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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and hundreds more. For many years he was accredited as an official Polish journalist representative in Hollywood and by the
Cannes Film Festival
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. He was a music consultant of the Polish edition of the autobiography of the
Oscar
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winner
Burt Bacharach
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. He writes books for children and adults. Theatre plays for children were based on his books ''Zaczarowana Wigilia (Magic Christmas Eve)'' and ''Podróże z fantazją. Bajka muzyczna (Traveling with Fantasy. Musical fairy tale)''. Columnist for Read & Fly Magazine and in English for The First News. After completing his musical career, he collaborates with the ROMA Musical Theater as a writer and a specialist of the history of this cultural institution. He runs the travel program Baby on Board on the Polish National Radio. As a TV personality he takes part in public debates in mainstream media. His book ''Gambia. The Smiling Coast'', published by
National Geographic
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, was awarded the main Magellan Award for the best illustrated guide. From 2018 he is the host of the yearly gala concert of the
Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity
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in Liverpool. In 2021 he received another Magellan Award for ''The Faroe Islands First-Hand Guide''. ''A Practical Travel Guide''. Since 2024, he has been working as a correspondent from Great Britain for
TVP Polonia
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– channel of
Telewizja Polska
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After 2015, when the right-wing po ...
, a
public service broadcaster
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in
Poland
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, the oldest and largest Polish television network.
Personal life
He is the son of Maciej Pinkwart, a writer and historian from
Zakopane
Zakopane (Gorals#Language, Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has ...
and brother of the journalist and TV correspondent Joanna Pinkwart. In 2015 he left
Poland
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and moved to
Liverpool
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,
United Kingdom
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. Lives in
Bootle
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. He is active in the Merseyside County Polish charity organisations and associations, and Polish émigré press. Married to journalist and travel writer Magdalena Pinkwart, father of four children: Wiktor, Liwia, Wilhelm and Lara.
Works
* ''Bajki Tatrzańskie'', PTTK Kraj Publishing, 1987
* ''Nagrania Stefana Kamasy w Archiwum Polskiego Radia'',