Kika Szaszkiewiczowa
Irena "Kika" Szaszkiewiczowa | |
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| Born | Irena Jarochowska 4 March 1917 Kraków, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 11 August 2014 (aged 97) Kraków, Poland |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, writer, blogger |
| Website | Szaszkiewiczowa blog |
Irena "Kika" Szaszkiewiczowa (née Jarochowska; 4 March 1917 – 11 August 2014) was a Polish artist, writer and blogger.[1]
Szaszkiewiczowa was the sister of a writer and communist activist Maria Jarochowska and photgrapher Konstanty Jarochowski.
She was a performer of the Piwnica pod Baranami. Her fictional adventures were described in the comics called Szaszkiewiczowa, czyli Ksylolit w jej życiu, which was being published in Przekrój since 1958. During World War II, she was a member of Armia Krajowa. In 1969–2007 she lived in Norway. In 2011, she published her memoir titled Podwójne życie Szaszkiewiczowej (The Double Life of Szaszkiewiczowa). Since 2013 she ran a blog Moje pierwsze 100 lat (My First 100 Years).
On August 9, 2014 she was awarded with Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta by the president of Poland. She received the order from Lesser Poland voivode Jerzy Miller during a ceremony at her appartament in Cracow.
Bibliography
- Irena Kika Szaszkiewiczowa: Podwójne życie Szaszkiewiczowej. Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2011; ISBN 978-83-08-04790-3.
References
- ^ "Nie żyje "Kika", gwiazda Piwnicy pod Baranami" (in Polish). dziennikpolski24.pl. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
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