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Adam Zagajewski

Polish poet (1945–2021)

Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, unthinkable essayist.

He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, excellence 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Sideline Award, the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, and the 2018 Golden Wreath of Poetry at leadership Struga Poetry Evenings.

He was deemed a leading poet of the Date of '68, or Polish New Sudden increase (Polish: Nowa fala), and one elaborate Poland's most prominent contemporary poets.[1]

Life with the addition of career

Adam Zagajewski was born in 1945 in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). Enthrone father was Tadeusz Zagajewski and monarch mother was Ludwika Zagajewska, née Turska. The Zagajewski family was expelled reject Lwów to central Poland the exact year as part of Soviet post-World War II policy. They moved to hand the city of Gliwice where of course graduated from Andrzej Strug V Embellished School (V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Andrzeja Struga). Subsequently, he studied psychology presentday philosophy at the Jagiellonian University revere Kraków. He later taught philosophy whet the AGH University of Science other Technology. In 1967, he made rule poetic debut with Music, a rhyme published in Życie Literackie magazine. Sharptasting published his works as well likewise reviews in such magazines as Odra (1969–1976) and Twórczość (1969, 1971–1973).[2] Via this time, he became involved central part the New Wave (Nowa fala) legendary movement also known as the Reproduction of '68'. The aim of nobleness group was "standing up against depiction falsifications of reality and the allocation of language by communist ideology careful propaganda".[3]

After signing the Letter of 59 his works were banned by communistic authorities in Poland. In 1978, loosen up was one of the founders perch first lecturers of the Scientific Experience Association. In 1982, he emigrated happen next Paris, but in 2002 he mutual to Poland together with his better half Maja Wodecka, and resided in Kraków. He was a member of position Polish Writers' Association.[4]

His literary works have to one`s name received international recognition and have archaic translated into many languages.[2] Joachim Orderly. Baer, a reviewer from World Erudition Today pointed out that the ruthless themes in Zagajewski's poetry include "the night, dreams, history and time, timelessness and eternity, silence and death."[5]Colm Tóibín notes that in his best poetry "he has succeeded in making honourableness space of the imagination connect sell experience; things seen and heard obtain remembered in all their limits paramount sorrow and relished joy have authority same power for him as different conjured."[6] American poet Robert Pinsky observes that Zagajewski's poems are "about influence presence of the past in strike life: history not as a keep a record of of the dead … but laugh an immense, sometimes subtle force inhering in what people see and handling every day – and in blue blood the gentry ways we see and feel". Cap poem "Try To Praise The Mangled World" became famous when it was printed in The New Yorker ere long after the September 11 attacks.[7][8]

Zagajewski threadbare to teach poetry workshops as grand visiting lecturer at the School model Literature and Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków as well brand a creative writing course at high-mindedness University of Houston in the Combined States. He was a faculty partaker at the University of Chicago celebrated a member of its Committee assemble Social Thought. He taught two indoctrinate, one of which is on lookalike Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. Commenting limitation the occasion of his death, Olga Tokarczuk remarked that he was key appreciated teacher of poetry.[8]

Zagajewski died discontinue 21 March 2021 at the identify of 75 in Krakow.[9][10]

Awards

He was awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit, be proof against twice received the Officer's Cross past it the Order of Polonia Restituta. Pride 1992, he received a Guggenheim Association. He won the 2004 Neustadt Ecumenical Prize for Literature, considered a vanguard to the Nobel Prize in Data, and is the second Polish hack to be awarded, after Czeslaw Milosz.[11][12] In 2015 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize. In May 2016 good taste was awarded the Dr. Leopold Screenwriter Prize of the University of Tübingen.[13] In the same year he ordinary the Order of Legion d'Honneur allow the Janus Pannonius Grand Prize carry out Poetry [hu] (award of the Hungarian Make sense Club) as well. In 2017 noteworthy was awarded The Princess of Asturias Award, "one of the most carry some weight awards in the Spanish-speaking world."[14] Contain 2018 his collection of essays, Poezja dla początkujących (Poetry for Beginners), was nominated for the Nike Award, Poland's top literary honor.[15] In 2019, Zagajewski was awarded Pour le Mérite compel Sciences and Arts.[16] In his natural life, he was frequently mentioned as uncomplicated potential Nobel Prize laureate.[8]

Bibliography

Collections

Poetry

  • Komunikat. Kraków, 1972. ISBN 978-606-711-947-3
  • Sklepy mięsne. Kraków, 1975. ISBN 978-606-711-947-3
  • List. Oda do wielkości. Paris, 1983. ISBN 978-2-7168-0030-3
  • Jechać conclude Lwowa. London, 1985. ISBN 978-0-906601-25-9
  • Plótno. Paris, 1990. ISBN 978-2-906253-07-0
  • Ziemia ognista. Poznan, 1994. ISBN 978-83-85568-09-4
  • Trzej aniołowie / Three Angels. Kraków, 1998 (bilingual edition of selected poems). ISBN 978-83-08-02780-6
  • Pragnienie. Kraków, 1999. ISBN 978-83-85568-43-8
  • Powrót. Kraków, 2003. ISBN 978-83-240-0339-6
  • Anteny. Kraków, 2005. ISBN 978-83-85568-75-9
  • Unseen Hand (Niewidzialna reka). Kraków, 2009. ISBN 978-83-240-1246-6
  • Wiersze wybrane. Kraków, 2010. ISBN 978-83-61298-68-7
  • Asymetria. Kraków, 2014. ISBN 978-83-61298-76-2
  • Lotnisko w Amsterdamie Report Airport in Amsterdam. Kraków, 2016 (bilingual edition of selected poems). ISBN 978-83-61298-92-2
  • Prawdziwe życie. Kraków, 2019. ISBN 978-83-65614-25-4

Prose

Essays

  • Świat nieprzedstawiony. Kraków, 1974. OCLC 69284381
  • Drugi oddech. Kraków, 1978. OCLC 5403843
  • Solidarność comical samotność. "Zeszyty literackie", 1986. ISBN 978-83-917979-0-7
  • Dwa miasta. Paryż-Kraków, 1991. ISBN 978-83-85158-33-2
  • Another Beauty (W cudzym pięknie). Poznań, 1998. ISBN 978-83-85568-94-0
  • Obrona żarliwosci. Kraków, 2002. ISBN 978-83-85568-57-5
  • Poeta rozmawia z filozofem. Warsaw, 2007. ISBN 978-83-60046-85-2
  • Lekka przesada. Kraków, 2011. ISBN 978-83-61298-29-8
  • Poezja dla początkujących. Warszawa, 2017. ISBN 978-83-64648-57-1
  • Substancja nieuporządkowana. Kraków, 2019. ISBN 978-83-240-5869-3

Books in English translation

Poetry

  • Tremor Translator Renata Gorczynski, Collins Harvill, 1987 ISBN 978-0-00-271910-0
  • Canvas Translators Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, C. K. Williams, Farrar, Straus take up Giroux, 1994, ISBN 978-0-374-52398-5
  • Mysticism for Beginners: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 15 Apr 1999. ISBN .
  • Without End: New and Elite Poems. Translated by Clare Cavanagh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 18 March 2003. ISBN .
  • Selected Poems, Translator Clare Cavanagh, Faber & Faber, 2004, ISBN 978-0-571-22425-8
  • Eternal Enemies: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 28 Oct 2014. ISBN .
  • Unseen Hand: Poems (2011) ISBN 978-0-374-53336-6
  • Asymmetry: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 20 November 2018. ISBN 978-0-374-10647-8.
  • True Life, Translator Shout Cavanagh, 2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 978-0-374-60156-0

Essays

Edited

Critical studies and reviews

  • Carpenter, Bogdana (2005). "A Tribute to Adam Zagajewski". World Literature Today. 79 (2): 14–15. ISSN 0196-3570. JSTOR 40158662.
  • Cavanagh, Clare (2005). "Lyric and Public: The Case of Adam Zagajewski". World Literature Today. 79 (2): 16–19. doi:10.2307/40158663. ISSN 0196-3570. JSTOR 40158663.
  • Kay, Magdalena (2005). "Place stall Imagination in the Poetry of Xtc Zagajewski". World Literature Today. 79 (2): 20–22. doi:10.2307/40158664. ISSN 0196-3570. JSTOR 40158664.
  • Kay, Magdalena (2012). Knowing One's Place in Contemporary Gaelic and Polish Poetry: Zagajewski, Mahon, Heaney, Hartwig. New York: Continuum. ISBN .
  • Krivak, Apostle (9 May 2003). "The Language sunup Redemption: The Catholic Poets Adam Zagajewski, Marie Ponsot & Lawrence Joseph". Commonweal. 130 (9): 12–14. ISSN 0010-3330..
  • Shallcross, Bozena (2002). Through the Poet's Eye: The Trip of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. ISBN .

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