Paweł Huelle

Paweł Marek Huelle (10 September 1957 – 27 November 2023) was a Polish prose writer.

Huelle studied Polish philology at Gdańsk University and, in 1980, participated in the efforts to establish an independent student organization. He later became a journalist and worked for the press service of Solidarność (Solidarity). After the declaration of martial law in 1981, he cooperated with the samizdat movement. He also taught literature, philosophy and history. He was the director of TVP3 Gdańsk from 1994 to 1999 and served as the literary manager for the Municipal Theater of Gdynia [pl].

His literary debut came in 1987 with a novel Weiser Dawidek [pl] (translated as Who was David Weiser?), which was made into a film (Weiser [pl]) by Wojciech Marczewski in 2000. He was also a member of the Polish PEN Club.

In 2001, he won the Paszport Polityki Award for his book Mercedes-Benz. Z listów do Hrabala, and in 2008 was nominated for the Nike Award for his novel Ostatnia wieczerza ("The Last Supper").

In 2012, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Bronisław Komorowski. In 2014, he received the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.

His wife was painter Ida Łotocka-Huelle [pl].

Huelle died in Gdańsk on 27 November 2023, at the age of 66.