Translators’ Collegium

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Anna Bikont and Jacek Dukaj at the Le Livre sur les Quais Festival
Mikołaj Grynberg’s “Confidential”

in English and other translations

Zyta Rudzka in Spanish and other translations
Honek, Figura, and Dąbrowski

at the International Literature Festival Graal-Müritz

Author of the month

Tomasz Różycki

(born 1970) – writes poetry and fiction.

He has published nine collections of verse (the most recent, Ręka pszczelarza [The Beekeeper’s Hand], appeared in 2022), epic poems and novels. He has won numerous literary prizes, including the Václav Burian Award (2017) and the Wisława Szymborska Award (2023). His collection of literary sketches, Błędna kartografia Europy [A False Cartography of Europe], won him the title “Ambassador of the New Europe”. Mira Rosenthal’s English translation of his poetry collection, Kolonie [Colonies], was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize (2014). He is a former resident of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme. His poetry has been translated into languages including Spanish, French, English, Bulgarian, German, Lithuanian, Russian, Slovenian and Ukrainian, and has appeared in many foreign anthologies and journals.

Classic

Jan Kochanowski
Poems

Kochanowski’s poems were the pinnacle of Polish culture under the Jagiellonian dynasty.

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