Anna Janko | |
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 Anna Janko in 2015 | |
| Born | Aneta Jankowska August 27, 1957 Rybnik, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
| Occupations | poet, writer, columnist, literary critic |
| Writing career | |
| Notable work | A Little Annihilation (Mała Zagłada) |
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Anna Janko (born Aneta Jankowska, 27 August 1957), is a Polish poet, writer, columnist and literary critic.
Aneta Jankowska was born in Rybnik, in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, 27 August 1957. She is the daughter of Teresa Ferenc (born in 1934) and Zbigniew Jankowski. Her mother, as a 9-year-old child, survived the massacre carried out by the German army in the village of Sochy. Janko presented the event in her book Mała Zagłada (A Little Annihilation), published in 2015, which won the "Gryfia" Literary Award.
As a poet, she debuted in 1977. In the second half of the 1970s, she was associated with the poetry Nowa Prywatność (New Privacy). She collaborated with the Wrocław monthly magazine Odra, the Second Program of Polish Radio, and the magazine Pani. She currently cooperates with Zwierciadło.
She is a member of the PEN-club and the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich (The Association of Polish Writers).
Olga Tokarczuk, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (2018), and winner of The Man Booker International Prize (2018) said about the book A Little Annihilation (Mała Zagłada): "Scenes from the war live on as trauma in the memory of the next generation. A Little Annihilation by Anna Janko is an extraordinarily personal and powerful account of how the worst wartime atrocities affect ordinary people and are seldom recorded in the official histories."
Critic Artur Sandauer said about Anna Janko: "A female Rimbaud".
