Anna Janko | |
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 Anna Janko in 2015 | |
| Born | Aneta Jankowska August 27, 1957 Rybnik, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
| Occupation | poet, writer, columnist, literary critic |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Notable works | A Little Annihilation (Mała Zagłada) |
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Anna Janko (born Aneta Jankowska, 27 August 1957), is a Polish poet, writer, columnist and literary critic.[4]
Aneta Jankowska was born in Rybnik, in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland,[1] 27 August 1957. She is the daughter of Teresa Ferenc (born in 1934) and Zbigniew Jankowski. Her mother, as a 9-year-old child, survived the massacre carried out by the German army in the village of Sochy. Janko presented the event in her book Mała Zagłada (A Little Annihilation),[5][6][7] published in 2015, which won the "Gryfia" Literary Award.[3]
As a poet, she debuted in 1977. In the second half of the 1970s, she was associated with the poetry Nowa Prywatność (New Privacy).[8] She collaborated with the Wrocław monthly magazine Odra, the Second Program of Polish Radio, and the magazine Pani. She currently cooperates with Zwierciadło.
She is a member of the PEN-club and the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich (The Association of Polish Writers).[1]
Olga Tokarczuk, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (2018), and winner of The Man Booker International Prize (2018) said about the book A Little Annihilation (Mała Zagłada): "Scenes from the war live on as trauma in the memory of the next generation. A Little Annihilation by Anna Janko is an extraordinarily personal and powerful account of how the worst wartime atrocities affect ordinary people and are seldom recorded in the official histories."[9]
Critic Artur Sandauer said about Anna Janko: "A female Rimbaud".[10]
