Kika Szaszkiewiczowa

1917 - 2014

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  Poland
languages spoken, written or signed:  Polish
occupation:  artist

Irena "Kika" Szaszkiewiczowa (née Jarochowska; 4 March 1917 – 11 August 2014) was a Polish artist, writer and blogger. 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. 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 during a ceremony at her apartment in Cracow. Source: Wikipedia (en)

Series

There is nothing here

Create a new serie

Articles

There is nothing here

Human - wd:Q6068797

Welcome to Inventaire

the library of your friends and communities
learn more
you are offline