Adam Zagajewski
Adam Zagajewski in 2014
Adam Zagajewski (born 21 June 1945, in Lwów) is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Biography
Adam Zagajewski was born in Lwów (since January 1, 1946 Lvov, Ukrainian SSR). The Zagajeski family was expelled from Lwów by the Ukrainians to central Poland the same year. In 1982 he emigrated to Paris, but in 2002 he returned to Poland, and resides in Kraków. His poem "Try To Praise The Mutilated World", printed in The New Yorker, became famous after the 11 September attacks. He is currently a faculty member at the University of Chicago and a member of its Committee on Social Thought. He teaches two classes, one of which is on fellow Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz.
Bibliography
Collections
- Poetry
- Zagajewski, Adam (1972). Komunikat. Kraków.
- Sklepy miesne. Kraków, 1975.
- List. Oda do wielosci. Paris, 1983.
- Jechac do Lwowa. London, 1985.
- Plótno. Paris, 1990.
- Ziemia ognista. Poznan, 1994.
- Trzej aniolowie. Kraków, 1998.
- Pragnienie. Kraków, 1999.
- Powrót. Kraków, 2003.
- Anteny. Kraków, 2005.
- Unseen Hand (Niewidzialna reka). Kraków, 2009.
- Wiersze wybrane. Kraków, 2010.
- Prose
- Cieplo, zimno. Warszawa, 1975.
- Sluch absolutny. Kraków, 1979.
- Cienka kreska. Kraków, 1983.
- Essays
- Swiat nieprzedstawiony. Kraków, 1974.
- Drugi oddech. Kraków, 1978.
- Solidarnosc i samotnosc. "Zeszyty literackie", 1986.
- Dwa miasta. Paryz-Kraków, 1991.
- Another Beauty (W cudzym pieknie). Poznan, 1998.
- Obrona zarliwosci. Kraków, 2002.
- Poeta rozmawia z filozofem. Warszawa, 2007.
Books in English translation
- Poetry
- Tremor (1985)
- Canvas (1991)
- Mysticism for Beginners (1997)
- Without End: New and Selected Poems (2002)
- Eternal Enemies: Poems (2008)
- Unseen Hand: Poems (2011)
- Essays
- Solidarity, Solitude (1990)
- Two Cities (1995)
- Another Beauty (2000)
- Edited
List of poems
| Title |
Year |
First published |
Reprinted/collected |
| I look at a photograph |
2011 |
Zagajewski, Adam (Spring 2011). "I look at a photograph". Tin House 47. |
Zagajewski, Adam (2013). Henderson, Bill, ed. The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. pp. 547–548. |
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Critical studies and reviews
- Borkowska, Ewa (2001). "'In the beauty created by others' : Polish post-war emigration poetry : Adam Zagajewski". The writing of exile. Edited and introduced by Wojciech Kalaga and Tadeusz Rachwal. Katowice, Poland: Slask. pp. 51–64.
- Carpenter, Bogdana. “A Tribute to Adam Zagajewski.” World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma. 2005 May-Aug; 79 (2): 14-15.
- Cavanagh, Clare. “Lyric and Public: The Case of Adam Zagajewski.” World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma, 2005 May-Aug; 79 (2): 16-19.
- Kay, Magdalena. “Place and Imagination in the Poetry of Adam Zagajewski.” World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma, 2005 May-Aug; 79 (2): 20-22.
- Kay, Magdalena. Knowing One's Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry: Zagajewski, Mahon, Heaney, Hartwig. New York, NY: Continuum; 2012.
- Krivak, Andrew. "The Language of Redemption: The Catholic Poets Adam Zagajewski, Marie Ponsot & Lawrence Joseph." Commonweal, 2003 May 9; 130 (9): 12-16.
- Shallcross, Bozena. Through the Poet's Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP; 2002.
Awards
He was awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit, and twice received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 1992, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He won the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and is the second Polish writer to be awarded, after Czeslaw Milosz.[1][2]
In 2015 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize.
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