Janina Katz

Janina Katz (2 March 1939 – 18 October 2013) was a Polish-Danish writer. A Polish Jew, she emigrated to Denmark in 1969. In 1991, she published her first collection of poems Min mors datter (My Mother's Daughter).

Biography Katz was born into a Jewish family in Krakow in 1939. Most of her relatives died in concentration camps but she was smuggled out of a Polish workers camp to live with a Polish couple she called her "war parents" who brought her up as a Catholic. After the war, she lived with her mother who had survived imprisonment in various concentration camps.

After studying sociology and literature at Krakow University, Katz worked as a literary critic in the 1960s.

Awards In 1998, she received the Beatrice Award for her oeuvre from the Danish Academy.

Works Poetry 1991: Min moders datter 1992: Mit uvirkelige liv 1993: I mit drømmeland 1995: Scener fra det virkelige liv 1996: Uden for sæsonen 1998: Blandt andet 1999: Varme steder 2002: Det syvende barn 2004: Landskabet der blev væk 2006: Min spaltede tunge 2010: Tilbage til æblerne 2011: Skrevet på polsk 2013: Endnu ikke allerede

Novels 1993: Mit liv som barbar 1997: Putska 2001: Fortællinger til Abram 2005: Drengen fra dengang 2008: Længsel pa bestilling

For children 2001: Mit liv som syfiluter