Paweł Huelle
Paweł Marek Huelle (born 10 September 1957 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish prose writer. Biography Huelle studied Polish philology at Gdańsk University and, in 1980, participated in the efforts to establish an independent student organization. He later became a journalist and worked for the press service of Solidarność (Solidarity). After the declaration of martial law, he cooperated with the samizdat movement. He has also taught literature, philosophy and history. He was the director of TVP3 Gdańsk from 1994 to 1999 and has served as the literary manager for the . His literary debut came in 1987 with a novel (translated as Who was David Weiser?), which was made into a film () by Wojciech Marczewski in 2000. He is 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"). His wife is painter . Bibliography Weiser Dawidek (1987) Opowiadania na czas przeprowadzki (1991) (trans. Moving House and Other Stories Bloomsbury 1994) Wiersze (1994) Pierwsza miłość i inne opowiadania (1996) (trans. "The first love and other stories") Mercedes-Benz. Z