Kika Szaszkiewiczowa

Who is Kika Szaszkiewiczowa?

Irena "Kika" Szaszkiewiczowa is a Polish artist, writer and blogger.

She was a performer in the Piwnica pod Baranami. Her fictional adventures were described in the comics called Szaszkiewiczowa, czyli Ksylolit w jej życiu, which was being 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. Since 2013, she runs a blog Moje pierwsze 100 lat. Her sister, Maria Jarochowska, was a writer and communist activist.