Ewa Sonnenberg
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Ewa Sonnenberg | |
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| Born | 30 March 1967 Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland |
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| Language | Polish |
| Education | Wrocław Academy of Music; Jagiellonian University |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Notable works | Hazard (a collection of poems) |
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Ewa Sonnenberg (born 30 March 1967) is a Polish poet, pianist, essayist and academic who has won several awards for her work. A lesbian, she is best known for her volume entitled Hazard.[1]
Sonnenberg was born on 30 March 1967 in Ząbkowice Śląskie in south-western Poland. For a time, she lived with her grandparents near Srebrna Góra at the foothills of the Owl Mountains, which she explored as a child. She went to school in Lubin and then graduated from the Wrocław Academy of Music, having studied the piano with Grzegorz Kurzyński. In 1990, she was in a car accident in which her hands were badly damaged, raising doubts about her ability to pursue a career as a pianist at a high level. Having written prize-winning poetry at high school she returned to writing while studying to be one of the first master's graduates in literary and artistic studies at the Institute of Polish Philology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, later becoming a lecturer at the same institute. Sonnenberg made her home in Wrocław and organized cultural evenings in which she would play the piano and recite her poetry, later inviting other performers to join her. She belongs to the Perfokarta group of cybernetic and experimental poets. Sonnenberg is openly lesbian: her poems are always addressed to women and have been described as "masculine".[1][2][3][4]
