Jarosław Mikołajewski
Jarosław Mikołajewski (born 1960 in Warsaw) - Polish poet,[1] writer and translator of the Italian language. He is also the author of children's books, essayist and journalist.
His books were published in Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, USA, Hungary, United Kingdom.[2] His work is also translated to following languages: Albanian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Czech, Ukrainian, Greek.
He translated among others: Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Leopardi, Montale, Ungaretti, Luzi, Penna, Pavese, Pasolini.
He also translated children's classic to Polish - among others: Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio (Polish title Pinokio: historia pajacyka, 2011) and some works of Gianni Rodari.
In several volumes, and especially in Którzy mnie znają / Those Who Know Me (2003), he reaches for the eternal subjects of poetry: love and death.[3]
His Froth: Poems (Zbite szklanki: wybór wierszy, 2010) translated into English was named among the 75 best of the year 2013 by World Literature Today (WLT).[4] [5]
Selected works
Poetry
- A świadkiem śnieg (1991)
- Kołysanka dla ojca (1994)
- Zabójstwo z miłości (1997)
- Mój dom przestały nawiedzać duchy. Wiersze z lat 1988-1998 (1998)
- Nie dochodząc Pięknej (2000) - (Not Reaching Piękna)[6]
- Którzy mnie znają (2003) - (Those Who Know Me)
- Któraś rano (2005)
- Coś mnie zmartwiło ale zapomniałem (2008)
- Zbite szklanki (2010) - (Froth: Poems)[7][8]
- Na wdechu (2012)
Prose
- Herbata dla wielbłąda czyli Sprawy i sprawki detektywa McCoya (2004) – Crime fiction
- Męski zmysł (2005)
- Rzymska komedia (2011) - (Roman Comedy)[9]
References
- ↑ Domoslawski, Artur (2012-07-10). Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life. Verso Books. pp. 83–. ISBN 9781844678587. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ↑ VIAF - Mikołajewski, Jarosław
- ↑ A Review of Events in Polish Poetry at the Turn of the 20th and 21st Centuries
- ↑ WLT, University of Oklahoma's bimonthly magazine of international literature and culture, has been recognized by the Nobel Prize committee as one of the "best edited and most informative literary publications"
- ↑ 5 Polish Translations Rank Amongst World's Top 75 Best
- ↑ Not Reaching Piękna - Jarosław Mikołajewski culture.pl
- ↑ Froth: Poems by Jarosław Mikołajewski BOOKS FROM POLAND AND ON POLAND - IN ENGLISH
- ↑ Jarosław Mikołajewski’s Froth: Poems Writing the Polish Diaspora
- ↑ Award of the Capital City of Warsaw for the book by Jarosław Mikołajewski "Rzymska komedia" (Roman Comedy) agora.pl
External links
- Froth by Jarosław Mikołajewski World Literature Today
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