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Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski in 2014
Born 21 June 1945 (age 75)

Lviv
Occupation poet, essayist, translator
Nationality Polish
Alma mater Jagiellonian University
Notable works Unseen Hand

Another Beauty
Such absolutny
Asymetria
Notable awards Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath (2018)

Princess of Asturias Award (2017)
Griffin Poetry Prize (2016)
Heinrich Mann Prize (2015)
Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2004)
Vilenica Prize (1996)
Kościelski Award (1975)
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, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition
Award and the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature. He is considered as
one of the leading poets of the Generation of '68' or the Polish New Wave
(Polish: Nowa fala) and is one of Poland's most prominent contemporary poets.[1]
Contents
 1Biography
 2Awards
 3Bibliography
o 3.1Collections
o 3.2Books in English translation
o 3.3List of poems
o 3.4Critical studies and reviews
 4See also
 5References
 6External links
Biography[edit]
Adam Zagajewski was born in 1945 in Lwów (since 1 January 1946 Lvov, Ukrainian
SSR). His father was Tadeusz Zagajewski and his mother was Ludwika
Zagajewska, née Turska. The Zagajewski family was expelled from Lwów by the
Ukrainians to central Poland the same year. They moved to the city of Gliwice where
he graduated from Andrzej Strug V High School (V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im.
Andrzeja Struga). Subsequently, he studied psychology and philosophy at
the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He later taught philosophy at the AGH
University of Science and Technology. In 1967, he made his poetic debut with Music,
a poem published in Życie Literackie magazine. He published his works as well as
reviews in such magazines as Odra (1969–1976) and Twórczość (1969, 1971–
1973).[2] During this time, he became involved in the New Wave (Nowa fala) literary
movement also known as the Generation of '68'. The aim of the group was "standing
up against the falsifications of reality and the appropriation of language by
communist ideology and propaganda". [3] After signing the Letter of 59 his works were
banned by communist authorities in Poland. In 1978, he was one of the founders and
first lecturers of the Scientific Training Association. In 1982, he emigrated to Paris,
but in 2002 he returned to Poland together with his wife Maja Wodecka, and resides
in Kraków. He is a member of the Polish Writers' Association.
His literary works have received international recognition and have been translated
into many languages.[2] Joachim T. Baer, a reviewer from World Literature
Today pointed out that the recurring themes in Zagajewski's poetry include "the
night, dreams, history and time, infinity and eternity, silence and death." [4] Colm
Tóibín notes that in his best poems "he has succeeded in making the space of the
imagination connect with experience; things seen and heard and remembered in all
their limits and sorrow and relished joy have the same power for him as things
conjured."[5] American poet Robert Pinsky observes that Zagajewski's poems are
"about the presence of the past in ordinary life: history not as a chronicle of the dead
… but as an immense, sometimes subtle force inhering in what people see and feel
every day – and in the ways we see and feel". His poem "Try To Praise The
Mutilated World", printed in The New Yorker, became famous after the 11
September attacks.
Zagajewski used to teach poetry workshops as a visiting lecturer at the School of
Literature and Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków as well as a creative
writing course at the University of Houston in the United States. 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.
Awards[edit]
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, considered a forerunner to
the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is the second Polish writer to be awarded,
after Czeslaw Milosz.[6][7] In 2015 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize. In May 2016
he was awarded the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize of the University of Tübingen.[8] In the
same year he received the Order of Legion d'Honneur and the Janus Pannnius
Grand Prize for Poetry (award of the Hungarian PEN Club) as well. In 2017 he was
awarded The Princess of Asturias Award, "one of the most important awards in the
Spanish-speaking world."[9] In 2018 his collection of essays, Poezja dla
początkujących (Poetry for Beginners), was nominated for the Nike Award, Poland's
top literary honor.[10] Since 2019, Zagajewski has been member of the order Pour le
Mérite for Sciences and Arts.[11]

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Adam Zagajewski in 2014

Born 21 June 1945 (age 75)

Occupation poet, essayist, translator

Alma mater Jagiellonian University

Notable works Unseen Hand

Notable awards Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath (2018)

Adam Zagajewski (born 21 June 1945 in Lwów) is a

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