Aleksandra Majdzińska

Born in 1975, she comes from the small village of Stara Dąbrowa near Słupsk, Poland.

In 2014, she received the Best Screenplay Award at the Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Armenia for her screenplay for Milky Brother. The film was also nominated for the Jan Machulski Polish Independent Cinema Award.
She is the co-writer of the documentary films: the Polish-Moldovan Mammoth (2023), and the Polish-Armenian productions Milk Brother (2014) and Lost, Found, Hidden (2025).

She is the author of the short-story collection Morkut and Other Stories, her literary debut published in 2019. Her second book, Shalom, Bonjour, Odesa, a work of literary reportage, was published in 2022 and received the Marek Nowakowski Literary Award and the 2023 Bydgoszcz Literary Award “Archer’s Arrow” (Strzała Łuczniczki). In 2025, the book was translated into Spanish and Swedish.

She translates contemporary Armenian literature into Polish. Her published translations include Vano Siradeghyan’s Brother Lamb (2017), Aram Pachyan’s Ocean (2021), Gurgen Khanjyan’s The Guardian of the Ruined House (2023), Vrej Israelian’s Sona and the War (2024), and Hrachya Saribekyan’s Aporias (2026).
In 2026, Pogranicze Publishing House published Hrant Matevosyan’s Hangover, which she translated together with Vahram Mkhitaryan.

Together with Vahram Mkhitaryan, she is a columnist for Pismo, a digital literary magazine published by Gdańsk UNESCO City of Literature.

She is a member of the Polish Filmmakers Association and the Polish Writers’ Association, where she serves as Vice-President of the Gdańsk Branch.
She is President of the Milk Brother Foundation.

She is a member of the Jury of the Marek Nowakowski Literary Award.

She has received scholarships and grants from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, the Mayor of Gdańsk, the Head of Słupsk County, and ZAiKS.