Kika Szaszkiewiczowa
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Born | Irena Jarochowska 4 March 1917 Kraków, Austria-Hungary |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Kraków, Poland |
Occupation | 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]
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.[citation needed]
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 9 August 2014, two days before her death, 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 apartment in Cracow.[citation needed]
Family
Szaszkiewiczowa was the sister of Maria Jarochowska, a writer and communist activist, and Konstanty Jarochowski, a photographer.
Bibliography
- Irena Kika Szaszkiewiczowa: Podwójne życie Szaszkiewiczowej. Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2011; ISBN 978-83-08-04790-3.
References
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