Komeda - A Private Life in Jazz - Magdalena Grzebałkowska
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Komeda - A Private Life in Jazz - Magdalena Grzebałkowska
Magdalena Grzebałkowska [+]
Journalist and Author
A history graduate of the University of Gdańsk, Magdalena Grzebałkowska is a multi-award-winning journalist and author of four books of non-fiction. In addition to her biography of Krzysztof Komeda, she has also written best-selling biographies of the Polish poet-priest, Jan Twardowski; and the Beksińskis, (artist father, Zdzisław, and music journalist-son, Tomasz). Her book of reportage on the Polish experience of the Reclaimed Territories and the repatriation of Poles following the Second World War: 1945: War and Peace (2015) won the Newsweek Prize and the Nike Literary Award (audience’s choice).
Magdalena Grzebałkowska is a popular speaker at the country’s many book festivals and makes frequent appearances in the Polish media.
Description
Now a medical student in Poznań, Komeda spends his spare time conducting the student choir and (on Witold Kujawski’s insistence) his holidays in Kraków during the ‘Catacomb period’, playing jazz in secret in the homes of Kraków’s jazz-loving literary elite, along with Trzaskowski, Kurylewicz, Matuszkiewicz and others.