Janusz Andrzej Glowacki
Author, screenwriter
Born Sept. 13, 1938, Poznan, Poland; came to U.S., 1982; son of Jerzy and Helena (Rudzka); married Ewa (Zadrzynska); child: Zuzanna.
Education: Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Warsaw (Poland), 1961.
Career: columnist, Kultura, Warsaw, 1965-80; teacher, Bennington College (VT), 1982; Ida Beam visiting prof., University of lowa, Iowa City, 1983; adjunct prof., Columbia University, New York City, 1990-91.
Author: 7 plays, 10 books, 8 screenplays, 20 radioplays; Cinders (play), 1984; Give us this Day (novel), 1985; Fortinbras Gets Drunk, 1986; Hunting Cockroaches (play), 1987; Antigone in New York (play), 1992.
Member of: Polish Authors Association - Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich (SPP) (Poland); PEN-Club (Polish and American); Writers Guild of America; Dramatists Guild.
Honors, i.a.: grant, U.S. State Department, 1975; fellowships, University of lowa, 1976, 1982, National Endowment for the Arts, and Guggenheim Foundation, 1988; awards, New York State Arts Council, 1985, American Theater Critics Association, 1986, Premio Moliere, Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1986, Drama League of New York City, 1987, Hollywood Drama League Critics, 1987, Joseph Kesselring Award, 1987, Polish Army Veterans Association - Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej (S.W.A.P.), 1991; master in residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1991
Languages: Polish, English, Russian, Latin
Hobbies: tennis, skiing
Home: 845 West End Ave. #4B, New York, NY 10025
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996