Kika Szaszkiewiczowa

Irena "Kika" Szaszkiewiczowa
Born
Irena Jarochowska

(1917-03-04)4 March 1917
Kraków, Austria-Hungary
Died11 August 2014(2014-08-11) (aged 97)
Kraków, Poland
Occupation(s)Artist, writer, blogger
WebsiteSzaszkiewiczowa blog

Irena "Kika" Szaszkiewiczowa (née Jarochowska; 4 March 1917 – 11 August 2014) was a Polish artist, writer and blogger.[1]

She was a performer of the Piwnica pod Baranami. Her fictional adventures were described in the comics called Szaszkiewiczowa, czyli Ksylolit w jej życiu, published in Przekrój since 1958.[citation needed]

During World War II, she was a member of Armia Krajowa. In 1969–2007 she lived in Norway. In 2011, she published her memoir titled Podwójne życie Szaszkiewiczowej (The Double Life of Szaszkiewiczowa). In 2013, at the age of 96, she started to run a blog Moje pierwsze 100 lat (My First 100 Years). She was at the time the oldest blogger in Poland.

On 9 August 2014, two days before her death, she was awarded with Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta by the president of Poland. She received the order from Lesser Poland voivode Jerzy Miller[1] during a ceremony at her apartment in Cracow.

Family

Szaszkiewiczowa was the sister of Maria Jarochowska, a writer and communist activist, and Konstanty Jarochowski, a photographer.

Bibliography

  • Irena Kika Szaszkiewiczowa: Podwójne życie Szaszkiewiczowej. Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2011; ISBN 978-83-08-04790-3.

References

  1. ^ a b "Nie żyje "Kika", gwiazda Piwnicy pod Baranami" (in Polish). dziennikpolski24.pl. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
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