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Things I Didn't Throw Out

Things I Didn't Throw Out () is a 2017 Polish essay collection and memoir by Polish writer and graphic designer Marcin Wicha.

The book won the Nike Literary Award in 2018, and it was also associated with major Polish literary honours including the Paszport Polityki for literature and the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award.

Review and reception

Reviewing the English translation, The Arts Desk described the book as making sense of personal and political history through the material remnants of everyday life.

The Big Issue characterised the memoir as both humorous and serious in its portrait of Wicha's mother and the social history surrounding her life.

Awards

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