November 2024 Issue of The Stinging Fly

Paweł Marek Huelle (10 September 1957 – 27 November 2023) was a Polish prose writer.

His literary debut came in 1987 with a novel Weiser Dawidek (translated as Who was David Weiser?), which was made into a film (Weiser) by Wojciech Marczewski in 2000. He was also a member of the Polish PEN Club.

In 2001, he won the Paszport Polityki Award for his book Mercedes-Benz. Z listów do Hrabala, and in 2008 was nominated for the Nike Award for his novel Ostatnia wieczerza (“The Last Supper”).

In 2012, he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Bronisław Komorowski. In 2014, he received the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.

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