Nationality Polish Name Ewa Nowak | Role Writer Books Lina Karo, N@sze | |
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Born 21 December 1966 Warsaw | ||
Ewa Nowak (born 21 December 1966 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer, teacher, therapist and journalist. She has published over thirty novels.
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Biography
Ewa Nowak was born in a family of teachers and grew up in a Warsaw district Powiśle. She graduated from Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. She worked as a teacher and therapist.
Career
Her first novel Wszystko, tylko nie mięta (All but mint) was published in 2002. She cooperates with newspapers Cogito, Victor Gimnazjalista, Victor Junior, Trzynastka, Sens. Nowak’s books has intellectual humour combined with accuracy of describing reality. She raises questions and lets characters solve them on their own. Her works are distinguished by psychological depth and multidimensional characters.
Nowak’s novels are set in the present day, however, the writer touches universal issues relevant to people in all times. The most important theme that she raises is psychological violence among young people. Nowak also faces difficult choices, overcoming your weaknesses, natural problems with distinguishing goodness and evil, consequences of thoughtlessness, family feuds, mental weaknesses and physical disabilities. Nowak shows all of these topics on concrete, clear examples, studying each of them with reverence and commitment. At the same time the reader feels that the author gives characters freedom to act.
Published works
