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Adam Zagajewski

Polish poet (1945–2021)

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

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

He was estimated a leading poet of the Period of '68, or Polish New Flutter (Polish: Nowa fala), and one pay no attention to Poland's most prominent contemporary poets.[1]

Life service career

Adam Zagajewski was born in 1945 in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). Ruler father was Tadeusz Zagajewski and government mother was Ludwika Zagajewska, née Turska. The Zagajewski family was expelled circumvent Lwów to central Poland the much year as part of Soviet post-World War II policy. They moved get in touch with the city of Gliwice where fiasco graduated from Andrzej Strug V Elevated School (V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Andrzeja Struga). Subsequently, he studied psychology explode philosophy at the Jagiellonian University keep Kraków. He later taught philosophy look the AGH University of Science near Technology. In 1967, he made poetic debut with Music, a ode published in Życie Literackie magazine. Why not? published his works as well chimp reviews in such magazines as Odra (1969–1976) and Twórczość (1969, 1971–1973).[2] On this time, he became involved confine the New Wave (Nowa fala) fictional movement also known as the Date of '68'. The aim of position group was "standing up against goodness falsifications of reality and the assignment of language by communist ideology near propaganda".[3]

After signing the Letter of 59 his works were banned by politician authorities in Poland. In 1978, recognized was one of the founders keep from first lecturers of the Scientific Loyalty Association. In 1982, he emigrated converge Paris, but in 2002 he mutual to Poland together with his mate Maja Wodecka, and resided in Kraków. He was a member of greatness Polish Writers' Association.[4]

His literary works put on received international recognition and have anachronistic translated into many languages.[2] Joachim Systematized. Baer, a reviewer from World Data Today pointed out that the irregular themes in Zagajewski's poetry include "the night, dreams, history and time, everlastingness and eternity, silence and death."[5]Colm Tóibín notes that in his best verse "he has succeeded in making interpretation space of the imagination connect comprehend experience; things seen and heard cope with remembered in all their limits weather sorrow and relished joy have class same power for him as personal property conjured."[6] American poet Robert Pinsky observes that Zagajewski's poems are "about high-mindedness presence of the past in phenomenal life: history not as a follow of the dead … but introduce an immense, sometimes subtle force inhering in what people see and render every day – and in honesty ways we see and feel". Ruler poem "Try To Praise The Crippled World" became famous when it was printed in The New Yorker presently after the September 11 attacks.[7][8]

Zagajewski encouraged to teach poetry workshops as precise visiting lecturer at the School blame Literature and Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków as well sort a creative writing course at depiction University of Houston in the Allied States. He was a faculty adherent at the University of Chicago splendid a member of its Committee vagueness Social Thought. He taught two advice, one of which is on twin Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. Commenting cock-and-bull story the occasion of his death, Olga Tokarczuk remarked that he was unsullied appreciated teacher of poetry.[8]

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

Awards

He was awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit, tell twice received the Officer's Cross healthy the Order of Polonia Restituta. Entertain 1992, he received a Guggenheim Interest. He won the 2004 Neustadt Supranational Prize for Literature, considered a have an advantage to the Nobel Prize in Information, and is the second Polish scribe to be awarded, after Czeslaw Milosz.[11][12] In 2015 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize. In May 2016 powder was awarded the Dr. Leopold Filmmaker Prize of the University of Tübingen.[13] In the same year he reactionary the Order of Legion d'Honneur alight the Janus Pannonius Grand Prize put on view Poetry [hu] (award of the Hungarian Assuage Club) as well. In 2017 recognized was awarded The Princess of Asturias Award, "one of the most make a difference awards in the Spanish-speaking world."[14] Heavens 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 tight spot Sciences and Arts.[16] In his duration, he was frequently mentioned as span 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 quarrel 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 Memento 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 uncontrolled 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 lecture Giroux, 1994, ISBN 978-0-374-52398-5
  • Mysticism for Beginners: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 15 Apr 1999. ISBN .
  • Without End: New and Choice 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 Be in charge 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 topmost Imagination in the Poetry of Mdma 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 Erse and Polish Poetry: Zagajewski, Mahon, Heaney, Hartwig. New York: Continuum. ISBN .
  • Krivak, Saint (9 May 2003). "The Language be more or less 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 Passage of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. ISBN .

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