Marcin Wicha
Marcin Wicha (born 1972) is a Polish graphic designer, children's author, and essayist. He has been a cartoonist for the Catholic weekly magazine Tygodnik Powszechny, and has contributed cartoons to the monthly magazine Charaktery and the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He has written a number of children's books. His 2017 book Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem received the 2017 Polityka Passport for literature, the 2018 Nike Literary Award, and the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Gdynia Literary Prize. It was translated into English and published in 2021 under the title Things I Didn't Throw Out. It is partly an autobiographical novel and partly a meditation on the loss of loved ones. In translation it was awarded a PEN Translates Award by English PEN in 2021.
