Marta
Dzido
writer, filmmaker.
She made her literary debut as 16 years old with poetry prose published in magazines Krzywe Koło Literatury and Koło Podkowy. Author of novels: Ślad po mamie (A Mark Left by Mom), Małż (The Clam), hypertext Matrioszka (Matryoshka); a non-fiction book Kobiety Solidarności (Women of Solidarity), Frajda (Thrills) that has won European Union Prize for Literature in 2019 and a collection of short stories Sezon na truskawki (Strawberry Season) and texts published in anthologies: Proza życia, Wolałbym nie, Walka jest kobietą, ковчег Титанік. Translated into Vietnamese, Czech, Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian, German, Croatian, Bulgarian.
fot. Dawid Markiewicz
(1981)
Marta Dzido
Publications: Duży Format, Lampa, Ha!art, Przekrój, Magyar Lettre Internationale, Radar, Jahrbuch Polen, Art&Business, Obieg, Miesięcznik Znak. Participation in scholarships, residencies: Homines Urbani, Młoda Polska, Visegrad Literary Residency Program, Ministry of Culture, Scriptwriting Scholarship, Przed granicą, ponad granicą, Czeskiego Centrum Literackiego, Hong Kong Baptist University, Next Page Foundation.
Graduated at the Polish Film School in Łódź. Director of photography of the documentary Underground Women’s State (2009) and co-director of Downtown (2010), a documentary that has won the Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award. Screenwriter, co-director and editor of Solidarity according to Women (2014, Krzysztof Kieslowski Beyond Borders Award, special award of Polish Film Institute) and docudrama Women Power (2018).
Awards:
Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award 2011, best documentary for DOWNTOWN
Beyond Borders - Krzysztof Kieślowski Award - 2015, best documentary for SOLIDARITY ACCORDING TO WOMEN
European Union Prize for Literature 2019 for FRAJDA
Nagroda Norwidowska for combining literary work with other types of art, 2021