The Beautiful History of the Orliński Family
11 Oct 2024
We invite you to an author’s meeting for young people and adults A NICE STORY OF THE ORLIŃSKI FAMILY 17.10.2024 – Thursday – 6:00 p.m.
ZUZANNA ORLIŃSKA will come to us – a writer and illustrator – an ambassador of the painting work of her parents – Wanda and Bogusław Orliński – representatives of the Polish School of Illustration. Zuzanna followed in her parents’ footsteps and graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. However, she also successfully pursues a literary path, as an author of historical books and novels and short stories for children and young people.
The meeting will have a two-track course. The first part will be a conversation with Zuzanna Orlińska about her childhood and parents – an artistic family home, growing up in the atmosphere of history and art. We will learn about the achievements and creative choices of the Artist. In the second part of the event, we will view the exhibition of works by Wanda and Bogusław Orliński displayed in our Orangery.
It will be possible to purchase books by Zuzanna Orlińska (Wydawnictwo Literatura) at a promotional price, which we warmly encourage.
ZUZANNA ORLIŃSKA – writer and illustrator, author of books awarded and distinguished, among others, in the Kornel Makuszyński Literary Competition and the Competition of the Polish Section of IBBY. She was a two-time laureate of the Astrid Lindgren Literary Competition. She also received the Gulliver in the Land of Giants statuette (2013). As a scholarship holder of the city of Warsaw, she created the first family-friendly walking guide to the Powązki Cemetery – City of Memory. Warsaw is also the heroine of her other books. It appears in the foreground or background in the novels Detectives from the Monastery Hill, White Theatre of Miss Nehemias, Shame for a Penny! and in three volumes of Ucznia sztukmistrza. The artist’s passion for exploring the secrets of her hometown made her a PTTK guide around Warsaw, so that she could also show it to readers during joint walks.
WANDA ORLIŃSKA (1942-2017) graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1967, she received a diploma with distinction from the studio of prof. Jan Marcin Szancer. She worked in painting and graphics. She illustrated dozens of books for children and youth, as well as magazines and school textbooks. Her works can be found in books by many famous writers and poets, including Wiera Badalska, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Małgorzata Musierowicz, Zofia Beszczyńska, Joanna Chmielewska, Danuta Wawiłow. She took part in numerous exhibitions in Poland, as well as in Berlin, Stuttgart, Bratislava, Belgrade and London. BOGUSŁAW ORLIŃSKI (1941-2022) graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1967, she received a diploma with distinction from the studio of prof. Artur Nacht-Samborski. He created in the field of illustration, graphics and easel painting, for many years he was a graphic editor at the Nasza Księgarnia publishing house. He is the author of illustrations for over a hundred books for children and young people, including H.Ch. Andersen’s Fairy Tales. He has represented Poland many times at the most important international illustration reviews, including the Illustration Biennale in Bratislava and the International Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, as well as in Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, London, Tokyo, Prague, Rio de Janeiro.
ATTENTION It will be possible to buy books by Zuzanna Orlińska (Wydawnictwo
Literatura) at a promotional price and get the Author’s autograph, which we cordially encourage you to do!
Important information, reservations are required: oranzeria@lidzbarkw.pl and tel. 517 262 146