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Maciej Siembieda
(PhD) (born 28 April 1961) is a Polish author of thrillers and historical novels. Many of his books have attained high ranking on bestsellers lists. In all his novels that have been published since 2017, Maciej Siembieda presents us with a masterfully woven braid of truth and fiction that keeps the reader fully absorbed in suspense from the first to the last page while also providing the reader a good portion of little known history along the way.

Early life and education
Maciej Siembieda was born on April 28th, 1961 in
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Since 2012 he has been living in
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a seaside resort on the Baltic Sea, between Gdansk and Gdynia, forming part of a
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As a young man he was very interested in crime and other type of investigations and was considering joining the Police force, then called the That would have been a disastrous idea. Fortunately the family intervened and his Uncle persuaded him to become an instead and convinced him to pursue studies at the Faculty of Polish Philology. The Department of Journalism at that time in Poland was a rather limited affair following only the agenda of the ruling political party.
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In 1985 he obtained the title of after completing Polish studies or Polonistics at the faculty of Polish Philology at the (Polish: Uniwersytet Opolski wtedy Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna) known then as Higher School of Pedagogy.
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Soon afterwards Siembieda proactively found himself fulfilling his dream of working as an investigative journalist and reporter.

He became the Editor in Chief of a number of Polish regional daily newspapers among them: "Nowa Trybuna Opolska" ,"Trybuna Śląska”
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(the regional newspaper which was published in during the years 1945–2004, and ranked as one of the largest daily newspaper at that time in Poland) and „Dziennik Bałtycki”(a daily newspaper in Siembieda’s articles regularly found their way into two major weekly magazines that appealed to the Polish ’(Polish pronunciation: [pɔˈlitɨka], Politics), and ' '(Polish pronunciation: [kulˈtura] Culture).
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In addition to his regular work as a journalist, Siembieda also authored 4 collections of reportages and a ‘how-to-write’ kind of a manual based on personal account of writing reportages titled ‘Reportaż po polsku’ (‘Reportage in Polish’).

In 2015 he defended his report on the subject of the Most Effective Social Actions in Regional Press and obtained a doctoral degree ( in Political Science at the in
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Career as writer of historical novels
Maciej Siembieda’s extensive experience as the reporter of historical and other investigations became the basis for his distinctive and captivating style of writing: presenting very often unknown but fascinating historical facts within an engrossing story of creative fiction, often with a flavor of a criminal mystery or a thriller, full of compelling, entertaining and absorbing protagonists and other well-developed characters.

He writes all his novels in longhand first with a mountain pen. He likes writing in his kitchen with its view of the garden, birds, his adopted mongrel dog Fibi at his side and the well-stocked refrigerator nearby.

Note:'' Maciej Siembieda’s books haven’t yet been published in English. Literary translation of titles is provided for understanding purposes only.''

In 2017, at the age of 56, he debuted as a writer of novels with the title ‘444’, a first in a series with the protagonist Jakub Kania, at that time the Prosecutor and Investigator of the
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Following titles in ‘Jakub Kania’ series are:

2018 - Miejsce i imię'' (Name and Place)

2020- Wotum'' (The Votive offering)

2021- Kukły'' (The Effigies/Dolls)

2022- Kołysanka'' (The Lullaby)

2023 - Orient '' (The Orient)

In 2019 he published a free-standing thriller titled ‘Gambit’'' the finalist in the “Readers' Choice for Best Book of the Year” in the category of Mystery & Thriller, at an online contest launched for the first time in 2016 by the portal Lubimyczytac.pl .
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In 2022 a Greece/Greek related series began with ‘Katharsis’''
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In 2023 - 'Nemezis' continued the Greek theme.
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The third title in this series, 'Kairos' ’ is to be released in May, 2024.
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For journalist work from:
1992 - Association of Polish Journalists Award, called ‘Polish Pulitzer’
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1993 - Association of Polish Journalists Award

1996 - Association of Polish Journalists Honorary Award

For books written:
2018 - Miejsce i imię (Place and Name) nominated to ' '
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2019 - Gambit -finalist in 2022 - Kukły (The Effigies/Dolls) nominated for The Large Caliber Award
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2022 - Katharsis, won third place in Readers Choice for Best Book of the Year

2022 - Katharsis Best Stream Award for the Best Audiobook of the Year in the category of crime/suspense/thriller

2023 - Katharsis received The Large Caliber Award from readers

2023 - Kołysanka (The Lullaby) nominated to
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the Festival of Crime Novels in
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Adaptations
The rights to screen adaptations have been sold for Katharsis to an experienced and accomplished team of Polish-Greek film Producer and Director. They are currently working on a feature film and an eight-episode series to be available via a streaming platform.

Translations:
The rights to German translation of Kołysanka (The Lullaby) and Katharsis have been sold.

Public life
Since 1994, Siembieda has been a member of the
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Personal life
Siembieda is married to Katarzyna, graphic designer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. His hobby he admits is: sleeping, as he suffers from a constant lack of it due to public meetings, many in person to promote his books; TV, online and radio interviews; and, of course, his writing schedule. He often asserts that he writes because he enjoys writing for its own sake and that is why he can’t appreciate deadlines.

Prosecutor Jakub Kania series:
444 (wyd., Warszawa 2017) ; suspense novel
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Miejsce i imię (Wielka Litera, Warszawa 2018) "Place and Name"; thriller

Wotum , Warszawa 2010) "The Voting Offering"; suspense novel
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Kukły (Agora, Warszawa 2021), "The Effigies/Dolls"; suspense novel

Kołysanka (Agora, Warszawa 2022), "The Lullaby"; suspense novel

Orient (Agora, Warszawa 2023), "The Orient"; suspense novel

Greek-themed series
Katharsis ((Agora, Warszawa 2022); suspense saga

Nemezis (Agora, Warszawa 2023); suspense saga

Standalone novels
Gambit (Agora, Warszawa 2019) ; suspense novel

Non-fiction
Gwiazdozbiór odmieńców (
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Opole, 1994) "A Constellation of Misfits". A collection of reportages about the most ‘original’ (untypical) characters from Polish towns.

The following are collections of reportages from his own historical investigations: Opole 1995), "The Posthumous Graduates' Reunion", Opole 1998), "The Fifth Season of the Year".
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, Warszawa 2003), "Misfits’ Afternoon Tea". A collection of reportages showing that ‘ a man makes history, and history makes a man’., Poznań 2003, "A Reportage in Polish". A how-to manual on how to write. , Warszawa 2016) Autobiography of an outstanding Polish economist, twice Minister of Finance and Prime Minister.
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