Biographie de Joanna Olczak-Ronikier
Joanna Olczak-Ronikier was born in 1934 and is a highly acclaimed writer and journalist. In the Garden of Memory (Wogrodzie pamieci) won the Nike Annual Literary Award (the equivalent of The Samuel Johnson Prize) in Poland in 2002. She has also written plays for radio and theatre, and the screenplay for a major television serial about the history of a 19th-century Krakow family. Her grandparents, the Mortkowicz family, ran one of the best literary bookshops and publishing houses in Poland before World War II. In the Garden of Memory was shortlisted for the prestigious Wingate Literary Prize 2005, awarded by the Jewish Quarterly.