Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk

(University of Lodz, Poland)

Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk is an Assistant Professorin the Chair of Polish Literature of the 20th and 21st Century at the University of Łódź. She is a writer and publicist (for her novel Porzeczkowy Josef she was nominated for the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize; she is also an author of several dozen reviews of kid’s literature and an author of radio-play for children Spożywczy bigiel. Mrożące krew w listkach przygody Szpinaka Alberta). Research interests: children and young adult literature and censorship of the Polish People’s Republic. Recipient of the Foundation of University of Lodz Prize for the outstanding M.A. thesis. Recipient of the first prize of the “Polityka” weekly magazine for the outstanding M.A. thesis on the history of the Polish People’s Republic. Distinguished in the 9th W. Pobóg-Malinowski Competition for the Best Historical Debut. Member of The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA). Principal investigator in National Science Centre Grant: Post-war Polish literature in the light of cryptotext (on the basis of bulletins of the Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows 1945–1956).