OT KLUB: "The Year I Didn't Die" - author meeting with Mikołaj Grynberg

About the event

On Monday, September 29 at 7:00 PM, we invite you to JCC Warsaw for a special author meeting with Mikołaj Grynberg about his latest book "The Year I Didn't Die." 📚 The meeting will take place as part of our OT KLUB reading club and will be hosted by Maria Majewska! 📩 The event is open to the public, but registration is required: [email protected] "Mikołaj wrote a book about life. Because when you write about dying, it's still about life. There's a lot of love for life in this book and quite a bit of fear of death. There's even a mathematical formula for the time left to live. If there's death in this book, it's only of those who have passed away. Recently, like parents or grandparents, or earlier, those killed in the Holocaust. A moving book, somewhat sad, even when it's funny. You have to read it." – Andrzej Leder, publisher's description About the author: - Mikołaj Grynberg - born 1966, writer and photographer, trained as a psychologist. - Author of albums "A Lot of Women" (2009) and "Auschwitz – What Am I Doing Here?" (2010). - His photographs have been exhibited almost worldwide. - Published collections of interviews "Survivors of the 20th Century" (2012), "I Accuse Auschwitz. Family Stories" (2014), and "The Book of Exodus" (2018), as well as two short story collections: "Noise" (2017), which was nominated for the Nike Literary Award and the Central European Angelus Literary Award, and its American edition translated by Sean Gasper Bye was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards 2022 and nominated for The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and "Confidential" (2020). - In 2021, he debuted as a film director with the documentary "Proof of Identity" produced by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. - For years, he has been exploring the issues and history of Polish Jews in the 20th century, asking himself and his interviewees questions about what it means to be Jewish in Poland and what that truly entails. - For several years, he has been conducting workshops on writing personal histories.