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Paweł Marek Huelle

パヴェウ・フエレ

Pawel Huelle

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1957-09-10 （Gdańsk, Poland）
Died
2023-11-27 （Gdańsk, Poland） age 66
Nationality
Poland
Languages
Polish, English

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Journalist, TV director, Literary manager, Educator
Active Years
1980-2023
Memberships
Polish PEN Club
Nominations
Nike Award (2008, nominee) — Ostatnia Wieczerza

Education

University of Gdańsk
Polish philology / Department of Polish Philology
Period: 1975–1980
Year of Graduation: 1980
Country: Poland
Participated in student activism and efforts to establish an independent student organization.

Awards

Paszport Polityki
2001
Work: Mercedes‑Benz. From letters to Hrabal
Organization: Polityka (magazine)
Result: 受賞
Order of Polonia Restituta
2012
Category: Officer's Cross
Organization: President of Poland
Result: 授与
Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis
2014
Category: Silver Medal
Organization: Ministry of Culture
Result: 授与
Nike Award (nomination)
2008
Work: Ostatnia Wieczerza (The Last Supper)
Organization: Nike Award
Result: ノミネート

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Weiser Dawidek (Who Was David Weiser?)

1987 Novel

Debut novel set in Gdańsk that explores childhood memories and mysterious events to examine community and individual relationships.

memorychildhoodcommunity vs individual
Adaptations
  • [Film] Weiser / Wojciech Marczewski (2000)
Translations
  • Who Was David Weiser? (English translation, Bloomsbury 1991)

Mercedes‑Benz. From letters to Hrabal

2001 Essay / Non-fiction

A collection of essays and letters engaging with the work and memory of writer Bohumil Hrabal, blending literary reflection and personal reminiscence.

homage to literaturememorycultural dialogue
Translations
  • Mercedes‑Benz (English translation, Serpent's Tail 2005)

Ostatnia Wieczerza (The Last Supper)

2007 Novel

A novel about relationships of characters now grown up, intersecting personal memory with social change in Poland.

memory and historyhuman relationshipssocial change
Translations
  • The Last Supper (English translation, Serpent's Tail 2008)

Castorp

2002 Short fiction / Novel fragment

A work inspired by Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain' focusing on Hans Castorp; presented as a lost chapter set in Sopot.

literary playmemorysense of place
Translations
  • Castorp (English translation, Serpent's Tail 2007)

Bibliography

  • Weiser Dawidek (1987)
  • Moving House and Other Stories (1991)
  • Wiersze (1994)
  • The First Love and Other Stories (1996)
  • Mercedes‑Benz. From letters to Hrabal (2001)
  • Hans Castorp in Sopot. Lost chapter from 'The Magic Mountain' (2002)
  • I Was Lonely and Happy (2002)
  • Ostatnia Wieczerza (The Last Supper) (2007)
  • The Gift of Freedom (essay, English, 2009)

Adaptations

  • Film 'Weiser' (2000, dir. Wojciech Marczewski)

Translations of Works

  • Who Was David Weiser? (English translation, Bloomsbury 1991)
  • Mercedes‑Benz (English translation, Serpent's Tail 2005)
  • Castorp (English translation, Serpent's Tail 2007)
  • The Last Supper (English translation, Serpent's Tail 2008)
  • Moving House and Other Stories (English translation, Bloomsbury 1996)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
memory-driven narrationregional/locational storytellingrestrained, observational voice
Recurring Motifs
childhood and memoryBaltic coast (Gdańsk)homage to literature

Legacy

Paweł Huelle was a Polish writer best known for works that explore memory and history set in Gdańsk. His debut novel 'Weiser Dawidek' was adapted into film and his works have been translated internationally. He received national cultural honors.

Academic Societies

  • Polish PEN Club

In Popular Culture

  • The film 'Weiser' (2000) is an adaptation of Huelle's notable novel.

Quotes

  • The gift of freedom
    Source: Essay 'The Gift of Freedom' (2009) (2009)

Trivia

  • Served as director of TVP3 Gdańsk from 1994 to 1999.
  • His wife was painter Ida Łotocka‑Huelle.