Mirosław Nahacz

Mirosław Nahacz
Born	9 September 1984 Gladyszow, Poland
Died	July 24, 2007(2007-07-24) (aged 22) Warsaw, Poland
Occupation	author

Nahacz was a Polish writer and screen writer, born on 9 September 1984 in Gładyszow. He was studying cultural studies at the Warsaw University. Nahacz belonged to the so-called 'new generation' and published his first novel as he was eighteen years old in 2003 titled Osiem Cztery (in English "Eight Four". In the same year he was awarded the Natalia Gall and Richard Pollak Literary Fund Award and moved to Warsaw. His next book, Bombel (2004), was praised by critics (who called him "voice of the generation"), as well as "Bocian and Lola" (2005). His last book titled Niezwykłe przygody Roberta Robura (2009), was finished couple of days before his disappearance in July 2007. He admitted that in his writing he was influenced by the literature of Céline, Hrabal, Burroughs and Pynchon.

After the debut in 2003, he was writing monthly a column to the Filipinka magazine and cooperated with the Lampa magazine. He was the co-author of the screen-play "Egzamin z Życia" ('The exam of a life') emitted on the channel 2 of the Polish public television.

On July 24, 2007, he was found dead in the basement of his Warsaw flat. A few days earlier he disappeared and committed suicide. He was almost 23 years old.

Works

• Osiem cztery (novel; Czarne 2003, ISBN 83-87391-75-1)
• Bombel (novel; Czarne 2004, ISBN 83-87391-94-8)
• Bocian i Lola (novel; Czarne 2005, ISBN 83-89755-31-9)
• Niezwykłe przygody Roberta Robura (novel ; Warszawa : Prószyński, 2009 ; ISBN 978-83-7648-016-9

External links

• Article about Nahacz (pl)
• Review of "Cztery osiem" in Gazeta Wyborcza (pl)
• Review of "Bocian i Lola" in Gazeta Wyborcza (pl)

www.nahacz.czarne.com.pl

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Name	Nahacz, Miroslaw
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Date of birth	9 September 1984
Place of birth	Gladyszow, Poland
Date of death	2007-07-24
Place of death	Warsaw, Poland