About Joanna Olczak-Ronikier
Born 1934. Joanna Olczak-Ronikier is a Polish playwright, writer, screenwriter and journalist.
Joanna Olczak-Ronikier (born 12 November 1934) is a Polish writer and scenarist, co-founder of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret in Kraków.
Biography Joanna Olczak was born on 12 November 1934 in Warsaw to a Polish-Jewish family, a daughter of Tadeusz Olczak and writer Hanna Mortkowicz. Her maternal grandmother was writer Janina de domo Horwitz; and her maternal grandfather was book publisher Jakób Mortkowicz. In 2011 she received the and was nominated to Nike Award for Janusz Korczak biography, Korczak. Próba biografii.
She was married twice: to a German journalist (1924–1987), they had one daughter, (born in 1961); and to a Polish translator (born in 1939).
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Joanna Olczak-Ronikier was born on 12 November 1934 in Warsaw.
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