Jerzy Pilch

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jerzy Pilch
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Aug 10, 1952(1952-08-10)
Age	72
Date Of Death	2020-05-29
Birthplace	Wisła
Country	Poland
Birth City	Silesian Voivodeship
Horoscope	Leo

Jerzy Pilch Biography

Jerzy Pilch is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on August 10, 1952 in Wisła, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. Jerzy Pilch (Polish pronunciation: [‘jezi’pilx] ; born on 10 august 1952, in Wisla, Poland) is a Polish writer, columnist and journalist. The style of Pilch has been compared by critics with Witold Gombrowicz Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal.

The sequel to her novel Spis Cudzoloznic (“List of adulteresses” 1993) is the tale of a failed writer leading a foreigner on a trip around Krakow as well as through a collection of curios of national myths as well as the absurd socialist reality that dominated the decade of 1980. In 1995 the actor Jerzy Stuhr turned his adaptation of the book into a movie in his debut directorial debut (under the name of the international version, List of Lovers).

Pilch’s most successful book so far is his fourth novel Pod Mocnym Aniołem (“The Strong Angel Inn”, 2000), a satirical take on the “drinking novel” genre, which was awarded a Nike Award, the prestigious Polish literary award, the following year. In 2009, it was translated into English as The Mighty Angel, and in 2010, Tysiąc spokojnych miast was also translated as A Thousand Peaceful Cities.

The same year, Pilch published his third novel Inne rozkoszy (“Other pleasures”), the first to appear in English (as His Current Woman, 2002) (see external links).

In 1989, Pilch began contributing extremely popular satirical pieces for The Krakow-based, liberal Catholic journal Tygodnik Powszechny, which established the writer as a popular intellectual. The best of his pieces from his column in Tygodnik Powszechny appeared in three collections called Rozpacz Powodu utraty furmanki (“Despair due to the loss of the wagon” 1994) Tezy o glupocie piciu i umieraniu (“Theses about stupidity, drinking and death” 1995) and Bezpowrotnie utracona leworecznosc (“The irreparable disappearance of the left hand” 1998).

Jerzy Pilch Net Worth

Jerzy Pilch is one of the richest Writer from Poland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jerzy Pilch 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The family was raised and educated in the tiny village located in Wisla within the Beskids in the southern part of Poland, Pilch studied Polish Philology at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and began to participate in Krakow’s subversive literary community in the latter part of the 1970s. He made his name under martial law in the 1980s, reading and writing articles for “spoken magazine” Na Glos (“Out Loud”) which was a frequent spoken-word festival organized by the opposing Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej (“Club of Polish Catholic Intellectuals of Poland”) (even even though Pilch himself was Lutheran).

In 1989, he received the prestigious Koscielski Award for his debut novel Wyznania tworcy pokatnej literary works erotyczne (“Confessions to an anonymous author erotica”) the book is a humorous insider’s view on Krakow’s art scene. Krakow arts scene.

Pilch quit his work for Tygodnik Powszechny in 1999, left the Kraków scene entirely, and settled down in Warsaw, where he began to write a column for the weekly Polityka. A collection of texts from this series was published as Upadek człowieka pod Dworcem Centralnym (“The Fall of Man in front of the Central Station”) in 2002.

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Jerzy Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Poland. Jerzy Pilch celebrates birthday on August 10 of every year.