Marta Dzido

Marta Dzido (born 1981) is a Polish writer and documentary filmmaker. She studied at the Polish Film School in Łódź and has shot and directed a number of documentaries, among them the award-winning ''Downtown'' (2010) and ''Solidarity According to Women'' (2014). The movie commemorated the forgotten role of the Polish female activists engaged in the anti-Communist opposition during the 1980s.

She has also written several novels and a non-fiction book ''Women of Solidarity'' (2016). She won the European Union Prize for Literature for her novel ''Frajda'' (2018). Provided by Wikipedia