Wacław Grabkowski is a Polish multi-prize winning novelist, short story writer and poet. He is an author of books for adults and teenagers. He has been a member of the Association of Polish Writers since 2000. Grabkowski's first published work was a collection of poems published in Sigma magazine in 1979. In 2000, his short storyWypalacz drutu won the First Prize from the Association of Polish Writers and monthly magazine Odra. Another short story, Wrocław i trzy harmonie ojca, won the First Prize from the Wroclaw's Millennium Celebrations Office and Odra. In 2003, his second novel Dzieci z Wilczego Kąta, won the First Prize in the competition for a contemporary novel, awarded and published by the publishing house ATUT. His third novel Park Wschodni, won the Second Prize in a national competition for a Polish contemporary novel awarded and published by Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie in 2006.
Published works
Novels and short stories:
1979: collection of poems published by Sigma magazine.
1993: Szczupaczek i inne opowiadania, self-published
1998: Wchodzisz Gdy Świt, published by the publishing house ATUT, is a collection of poems written between 1978-1982.
1998: Guz w Fiołkach, self-published, a story about young Poles, Jews, Greeks and Germans living in the vicinity of Wolf Street in 1960's Wrocław, which has become their own little homeland.
2000: Wypalacz Drutu, published by the Library of the Association of Polish Writers, won the First Prize from the Association of Polish Writers and monthly magazine Odra. It is a collection of short stories, which take place in a city struck by a great flood. It portrays a tramp-philosopher who fears for the future of a consumer driven world.
2002: Dziewczyna Kosmity i inne opowiadania, published by Swiadectwo, is a collection of stories spanning 30 years of Communist Poland, and the formation of a new democracy. One of the stories, Wrocław i trzy harmonie ojca, won the First Prize from the Wroclaw's Millennium Celebrations Office and Odra.
2003: Dzieci z Wilczego Kąta, won the First Prize in the competition for a contemporary novel, awarded and published by the publishing house ATUT. The story portrays a boy of Russian and German descent, who is born after the conquest of the Fortress Breslau by the Russians. After the death of his parents, he is raised by a Pole, and no longer sees himself as either Russian or German.
2006: , won the Second Prize in a national competition for a Polish contemporary novel awarded by Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie and was published in 2006. The novel is about an impending global catastrophe, predicted by ordinary people.
2007: Kapelusz i Bandana, published by the Library of the Association of Polish Writers, consists of four stories in which the author portrays two contrasting characters of a thinker and a rebel, questioning the traditions that suppress spiritual development in the Christian faith.
2007: Mało im naszych łez? Dziennik z czasów powolnego upadku komunizmu 1980-2007, self-published.
