Joanna Chmielewska ( Polish: Joanna Chmielewska ), real name of the writer - Irena Barbara Kuhn , nee Irena Barbara Joanna Becker [1] ( Irena Barbara Joanna Becker ; April 2, 1932 , Warsaw - October 7, 2013 , Warsaw [2] ) Is a Polish writer, author of ironic detectives and the founder of this genre for Russian readers.
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| Joanna Chmielewska | |
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| Birth name | Irena Barbara John Becker |
| Aliases | Joanna Khmelevskaya |
| Date of Birth | April 2, 1932 |
| Place of Birth | Warsaw , Poland |
| Date of death | October 7, 2013 (81 years old) |
| A place of death | Warsaw , Poland |
| Citizenship (citizenship) | |
| Occupation | a writer |
| Years of creativity | 1964 - 2013 |
| Genre | ironic detective |
| Language of Works | |
| Awards | Prize of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1989), prize of JSC "EMPiK" (2000, 2001) |
| www.chmielewska.pl | |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
- 2 Bibliography
- 3 Films and productions
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Joanna Khmelevskaya was born on April 2, 1932 in Warsaw in the family of bank director Jan Becker (1906 - March 11, 1983) and Yanina Konopatskaya (died in 1993). The upbringing of John was carried out by women - a mother, a grandmother and two aunts, Teresa and Lutsina. Her aunt Lucina, a journalist, had a particularly strong influence on John. She gave her niece a lot of useful knowledge, in particular, she studied French with her.
Due to the occupation of Poland by the Third Reich, John had to drop out of school. First, the same Lucina was engaged in school subjects with her, and then, in 1943 , Khmelevskaya was sent to a boarding school at the monastery of the Resurrection in Warsaw. At the end of the gymnasium, already in post-war Poland, Khmelevskaya entered the Academy of Architecture. She never considered herself a great architect. Once, while in France, she saw a small chapel in Orly and realized that she would never create one. Khmelevskaya left her profession and has since earned a living as a writer. In 1964, the novel “ Wedge by Wedge ” came out from under her pen, all in all, during her life she wrote about 60 books - detective novels and books of a journalistic nature, including Autobiography in seven parts.
Ioanna Khmelevskaya - winner of many literary awards, including the Prize of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers for creativity for children and youth ( 1989 ), two-time laureate of the AO EMPiK prize (Poland’s largest book-selling network) ( 2000 , 2001 ).
Khmelevskaya played cards and gambling very well: she claimed that she had learned to play cards before speaking. Her hobbies were bridge, racing, collecting amber and stamps, making shell beads, fortune telling on cards, composing compositions from dry herbs. Mrs. John also knew how to shoot, embroider and drive a car.
She died in the morning of October 7, 2013 in Warsaw at the 82nd year of life [3] [4] . She was buried in the Old Powzki cemetery.
Personal life
Khmelevskaya officially married once - at the age of 18, for a young man named Stanislav, who was three years older than her. In this marriage, she had two sons - Jerzy (born in 1951) and Stanislav Robert (born in 1956).
Jerzy studied at the University of Radio and Electronics in Warsaw, after which he left for Algeria to earn money. Returning to Poland - at one time he was engaged in the cultivation of champignons in greenhouses, in which John willingly helped him (from the selection of the builder of greenhouses to the collection of products). After many years of marriage, he divorced and married again to a girl who was much younger than him. From her first marriage she has a daughter, Carolina.
The second son of John, Robert, also went to work in Algeria. He was married twice, after which he left for Canada with his second wife and daughter and stayed there to live. Daughter Monica was born in a second marriage. Monica has an IT education, recently married a fellow student, lives in Toronto. Often, with her grandmother (John) traveled to France or stayed at her house in Poland.
Joanna loved to relax in France - on the coast of Brittany in hydropathic.
By her own admission, she adored cats. And in many works (including an autobiography) he expresses sincere and great admiration for the German shepherds.
Bibliography
| Year | Russian translation | original name | Synopsis | Series |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Wedge wedge | Klin | In a telephone conversation, the heroine accidentally meets an unfamiliar man. | "John" |
| 1966 | Everyone is suspected | Wszyscy jesteśmy podejrzani | Murder in the architectural office where John works. | "John" |
| 1969 | Crocodile from Charlotte | Krokodyl z kraju Karoliny | They kill Alicia, and John goes to Denmark. | "John" |
| 1972 | What the dead man said (Code "X") | Całe zdanie nieboszczyka | The John, who recognized the mysterious cipher, is kidnapped by the mafia, the heroine repeatedly escapes and finds himself in their network again. | "John" |
| 1973 | Les | Lesio | Satire. A novel about Forest, a colleague of the author. | Les |
| 1974 | Life as Life (Prose of Life) | Zwyczajne życie | About Tereska and her friend Shpulka (John herself became the prototype of Tereska). | Tereska Kempinska number 1 |
| 1974 | All red | Wszystko czerwone | An inexplicable series of murders in the Danish house of Alicia. Moreover, almost all the killings are unfinished - all the victims, except one, miraculously manage to survive. | "John" |
| 1975 | Century novel | Romans wszechczasów | John is hired to play the role of another woman. | "John" |
| 1976 | Big piece of the world | Większy kawałek świata | Tereska and her friend spend holidays on the Masurian Lakes. | Teresk Kempinsk number 2 |
| 1976 | Country roads | Boczne drogi | John travels around Poland with relatives, who are abducted from time to time. | Relatives of John |
| 1977 | Cursed Legacy (Stubborn Class ) | Upiorny legat | A detective about a stolen convolution with stamps and an attempt by friends of John to make amends. | "John" |
| 1979 | Wells of the ancestors | Studnie przodków | Relatives of John dig up wells in search of the treasure of their ancestors. | Relatives of John |
| 1979 | House with the ghosts | Nawiedzony dom | Heroes - children brother and sister Pavlik and Yanochka Khabrovichi. Their family inherits a mysterious house in which the attic is locked and there is no key to it. | Yanochka and Pavlik number 1 |
| 1981 | Special merits | Wielkie zasługi | Yanochka, Pavlik and their dog Cornflower (in Polish - Habr) become witnesses of strange events in the old cemetery on the sea, where they are going to rest ... | Yanochka and Pavlik number 2 |
| 1988 | hidden treasures | Skarby | Children go to Algeria and begin to search for treasure. | Yanochka and Pavlik number 3 |
| 1990 | Endless gang | Szajka bez końca | John is looking for the robbers of property stolen by the Germans during the Second World War. | "John" |
| 1991 | 2/3 success | 2/3 sukcesu | Yanochka and Pavlik are looking for a lost stamp collection. | Yanochka and Pavlik number 4 |
| 1992 | Wild squirrel | Dzikie białko | Satire. Employees of the architectural bureau radically solve the problems of modern Poland: shortage of food on the shelves, bureaucracy in the field of construction and measurements. | Les |
| 1992 | Running | Wyścigi | John at the hippodrome finds the corpse of a jockey. | "John" |
| 1992 | Blind happiness | Ślepe szczęście | The book includes three parts: 1. Treasure river, in which the treasures of ancient Scythians are found; 2. Relocation; 3. Ghost (Spirit) where it is about the spirit in an old castle (the third part was previously published separately ) | Teresk Kempinsk number 3 |
| 1993 | Secret | Tajemnica | John is trying to uncover the secret of the strange behavior of suspicious people leading a major game in a casino, the case is related to technical innovations. | "John" |
| 1993 | Just in case | Wszelki wypadek | Children are looking for hijackers of foreign cars in Poland | Yanochka and Pavlik number 5 |
| 1993 | Stock version (Double bottom case) | Drugi wątek | The girl is raking the neglected apartment of a crazy aunt. | "John" |
| 1993 | Florence, daughter of the Devil | Florencja, córka Diabła | About the horse Florence, who refused to participate in hippodrome fraud along with her owner and several friends of Mrs. John. | "John" |
| 1993 | Coincidence | Zbieg okoliczności | The confusion between John and her namesake - daughter-in-law. | Two John |
| 1994 | One Way | Jeden kierunek ruchu | Letters of a car in love to its owner, ending in disaster. (The bulk of the text was written back in the 60s and represents real letters that the author wrote to the Devil who got to the hospital). | |
| 1994 | Autobiography (book 1-5) | Autobiografia | 1) Childhood (Dzieciństwo) 2) First youth (Pierwsza młodość) 3) Second youth (Druga młodość) 4) Third youth (Trzecia młodość) 5) Eternal youth (Wieczna młodość) Note: 1-3 parts were issued in Russian in abbreviated form in 2 parts (approximately one and a half volumes each), under the names of Joke and Speak, I began at the same time a Dangerous Age. | Autobiography |
| 1994 | Paphnutius | Pafnucy | The adventures of the little bear Paphnutia in the forest. Forest protection. | For children |
| 1995 | Aliens in Garwolin | Lądowanie w garwolinie | An attempt to imitate the landing of aliens by the forces of one newspaper. Satire on reality. A fictionalized movie script. | |
| 1995 | Pandemonium | Duża polka | Mysterious events at the seaside resort: diamonds, drugs, gambling among the inhabitants and vacationers. | "John" |
| 1996 | Two heads and one leg | Dwie głowy i jedna noga | In the trunk of John’s own car, he finds the girl’s head. The action takes place in Poland and France. | "John" |
| 1996 | Diamond story | Wielki diament | Historical detective, the action begins in the 19th century and continues today: the adventures of a giant diamond. | |
| 1996 | How to survive with a man | Jak wytrzymać z mężczyzną | Humor. Tutorial on relations with a man. | Tutorial |
| 1996 | How to survive with a woman | Jak wytrzymać ze współczesną kobietą | Humor. Tutorial on relations with a woman. | Tutorial |
| 1997 | Passion | Hazard | Documentary. On various types of excitement with examples from the life of Mrs. John and her friends. | Tutorial |
| 1997 | Cow of the king of heaven | Krowa niebiańska | Elyunia, an advertising artist, enjoys playing in a casino and falls in love with a mafia chef. | |
| 1998 | Harpies | Harpie | The arrival of a wealthy American relative and her unexpected death, in which all the heiress living with her are suspected. | |
| 1998 | Golden fly | Złota mucha | John is looking for amber on the Baltic coast, and finds a man and a scam related to the sale of rare types of amber to foreigners. | "John" |
| 1999 | For seven seals (Million in a portfolio) | Depozyt | About the search for a portfolio forgotten in one house with a large amount of money. | |
| 1999 | Eldest great granddaughter | Najstarsza prawnuczka | A historical detective about the search for treasures, the action begins in the 19th century and continues today, tied to the decryption of the diary. | |
| 2000 | Beyond the barrier | Przeklęta bariera | Katarzyna unexpectedly falls from the 19th century to the end of the 20th and gets used to modern realities. | |
| 2000 | Cookbook (Food Book, My Cookbook) | Książka poniekąd kucharska | Mrs. John shares culinary secrets. | Tutorial |
| 2001 | TT, or Hard Corpse (Dead Man Live) | Trudny trup | John, working on the script of the series, accidentally finds a corpse in a hotel room. A scam on television. | "John" |
| 2001 | How to survive with each other | Jak wytrzymać ze sobą nawzajem | Humor. Tutorial on relationships in marriage. | Tutorial |
| 2002 | The killer menu (PS Darling, tomorrow I will kill you) | (Nie) boszczyk mąż | The wife’s unsuccessful attempts to kill her rich husband, who decided to divorce her. | |
| 2002 | Bad luck (Law of constant bad luck) | Pech | Relatives from Australia come to a very unlucky heroine. | |
| 2003 | Babskiy motive (Killer in a purple skirt) | Babski motyw | Near the new house of Mrs. John, they find the body of a journalist, and then it turns out that there are two of them. | "John" |
| 2003 | Fatal stamps | Bułgarski bloczek | Assistant Joanna, at her request, goes to look at the stamp collection, and plows into the murder and abduction of the numismatic assembly. | "John" |
| 2003 | New adventures of Pafnutia | Las pafnucego | Adventures of the teddy bear Pafnutius and his friends. | For children |
| 2004 | Cats in bags | Kocie worki | Joanna comes to Denmark to visit her friend Alicia, who seems to have blindly bought something very curious at a railway auction of lost things. | "John" |
| 2005 | To kill me (God, they want to kill me) | Mnie zabić | In the parking lot, John accidentally becomes a witness to a crime, the ends of which have to be sought in the Netherlands, France and Poland, and everything is complicated because of the confusion with the identification of the persons involved. | "John" |
| 2005 | Against women | Przeciwko babom! | Humor. Tutorial. | Tutorial |
| 2005 | Lighter | Zapalniczka | Returning from a trip abroad, John discovers that someone whistled a vintage desk lighter from her new home. And here, in addition, they also find the gardener's corpse. | "John" |
| 2006 | Pale cholera ( Grebe is pale, poisonous ) | Krętka blada | In the apartment of a colleague of Ioannah on a run visit, a corpse of a person is discovered who has strongly spoiled this industry in Poland with his corruption. | "John" |
| 2006 | Autobiography (book 6) | Autobiografia (Stare próchno) | 6) The old pepper shaker (So I decided to grow old) | Autobiography |
| 2007 | Slimming Treaty | Traktat o odchudzaniu | Humor. Tutorial on dietary dishes. | Tutorial |
| 2007 | Death to the Leeches! (Death to invertebrates) | Rzeź bezkręgowców | Mysterious murders of people involved in television screenings of famous books, suspicions fall on John. | "John" |
| 2008 | Autobiography (book 7) | Autobiografia ( Okropności) | 7) Terrible monster (Terrify day after day, Sorrows) Note: all 7 parts in abbreviated form were released in Russian in 2014 under one cover called Life (not) quite calm | Autobiography |
| 2009 | Encore Abduction | Porwanie | People with machine guns rushing into John’s villa, who were told that the writer had been abducted. Someone in the house clearly knows more about the mysterious kidnapping all over Poland. | "John" |
| 2010 | Gobies in tomato | Byczki w pomidorach | John is visiting Denmark with his friend Alice. The book takes place several years later, after the novel “Everything is Red,” and, as in the previous case, unexpected and unpleasant guests arrive, this time a woman injured in a car accident and her talkative husband Aquarius. | "John" |
| 2011 | Girl with freaks | Gwałt | Stasya Rutskaya sues her boyfriend for rape. Practically decoding the transcript of the court session of the communist times. | |
| 2012 | Bloody revenge | Krwawa zemsta | In the once friendly team appeared an employee who turned her head to almost all men without exception. And here in the forest they find the corpse of a girl who is clearly confused with a vile seducer. | |
| 2013 | Skeleton in the garden ( Purely concrete killing) | Zbrodnia w efekcie | In the summer cottage, a headless skeleton is accidentally found. | "John" |
Screen versions and productions
- The cure for love / Lekarstwo na miłość (based on the book “Wedge by the Wedge”), 1966, Poland. B / w
- Stolen Collection / Skradziona kolekcja (based on the book “Cursed Inheritance”), 1979, Poland
- Who are you, darling? / Kim jesteś kochanie (based on the book “Roman of the Century”), television play, 1978, Poland
- Meeting with the Devil / Randka z diabłem (based on the book “Everyone is Suspected”), 1999, Poland, TV show
- What the dead man said , Russia, 1999, a television series. Cast: Marta Klubovich , Oleg Tabakov , Oleg Basilashvili , Alexander Domogarov . The writer was very upset because of two things: that Alexander Domogarov, very famous in Poland due to his participation in Polish historical films, did not play the Devil and was killed in the film, as well as due to poor Polish translation of the film [5] .
- Samo niebo , 2001, Poland (based on the book “The Cow of the King of Heaven”), 2001, script co-produced by Mrs. Khmelyowska and her friend from Krakow television - Marta Vegil. Khmelevskaya herself abused the director of this series and the production in general [6] .
- Pan or disappeared (according to the book “Everything is Red”), a television series (produced in two versions: 12 episodes of 65 minutes each with a total duration of about 13 hours and 16 episodes of 44 minutes each with a total duration of about 12 hours), 2003, Russia. In the role of Joanna, Elena Safonova , in the role of Alicia Larisa Udovichenko , also - Valentin Smirnitsky and others. The last role is Vitaly Solomin .
Notes
- ↑ http://www.biblionetka.pl
- ↑ Biography of Joanna Khmelevskaya . RIA Novosti (10/07/2013).
- ↑ In Poland, the famous writer John Khmelevskaya passed away . NTV (10/07/2013).
- ↑ The Polish writer John Khmelevskaya died . Newspaper.ru (10/07/2013).
- ↑ Autobiography. Volume 6. The old pepper shaker. p. 76 - 77
- ↑ Autobiography. Volume 6. The old pepper shaker. p. 75 - 85
Links
- At the Aldebaran Library
- Official page
- Page on Culture.pl
- John Khmelevskaya on the Internet Movie Database
- Khmelevskaya on filmpolski.pl