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author, documentary film director, voice-over artist,
foreign-language dialogue coach
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Paul Kriwaczek died after a long illness on
2nd March 2011
 
Paul Kriwaczek is a writer, director and producer with more than thirty years of award-winning professional experience in radio and television broadcasting. Some of the fruits of this experience are contained in:

Documentaries cover ‘Documentary for the Small Screen — on the Craft and Art of the Television Documentary’, first published by Focal Press in 1997, and used as a textbook in numerous film-making courses throughout the English-speaking world. It is still in print, available from bookshops or directly from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk


‘Yiddish Civilisation — the Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation’, a history of the Jews of eastern Europe, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 2005 and in the USA by Alfred Knopf in November 2005. It was a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Award. Order it from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com.



Yiddish Civilisation cover
Zarathustra cover

‘In Search of Zarathustra — the First Prophet and the Ideas that Changed the World’, on the continuing influence of the ancient Persian prophet Zoroaster, was published in Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in March 2002 and in the USA by Alfred Knopf in 2003. It quickly reached the Sunday Observer best-seller list and has been translated into several languages incuding Farsi. Order it from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com.

His new book, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilisation, was published by Atlantic Books in July 2010 and in the USA in 2011 by Thomas Dunne Books. In Scotland on Sunday, Stuart Kelly called it "eloquent and consistently thought-provoking".



Babylon cover


Fish among the Treetops
Explore International
 For some thirty years Paul Kriwaczek has been in demand as a voice-over artist, narrating films and television productions, from the BBC's Horizon to the wildlife documentaries of Explore International (National Geographic).

Paul Kriwaczek works as a foreign-language and dialect dialogue coach, training actors to speak lines in all accents and languages (other than the tonal languages of the far east),

Spooks
BBC TV
 for cinema and television films, documentaries and commercials, as well as corporate and training videos.
Apple Macintosh Commercial

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