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Biography

Zadura debuted in 1962 in "Kamena". He was editor of the Lublin literary magazine "

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", from 2004 editor of "Twórczość" / Warsaw. He is a translator of poetry from the English, Ukrainian and Hungarian. Zadura had a participation in the

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1997. Translations Zaduras into German made by Henryk Bereska, Andreas Reimann,

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, into Ukrainian of Dmytro Pavlychko, Andriy Bondar, Mykola Rjabchuk and Andrij Ljubka. Zadura was an honorary citizen of Puławy (2010). For the band "Nocne życie / Nightlife" him of Silesius Award was in the category "książka roku / Book of the Year" award. In 1995 he was with Wacław Waldemar Michalski and Bogusław Wróblewski initiator establishing the East Cultural Foundation "Akcent". Since October 2004 Bohdan Zadura has been the editor in chief of the monthly literary journal ''

Twórczość ''Twórczość'' (Creativity, or Creative Output) is a Polish monthly literary journal, first published in 1945. Since 1 April 2000, ''Twórczość'' has been published by the state-funded Book Institute (Instytut Książki).

Poetry

* ''W krajobrazie z amfor'', Czytelnik, Warszawa 1968 * ''Podróż morska'', Czytelnik, Warszawa 1971 * ''Pożegnanie Ostendy'', Czytelnik, Warszawa 1974 * ''Małe muzea'', Czytelnik, Warszawa 1977 * ''Zejście na ląd'', Czytelnik, Warszawa 1983 * ''Starzy znajomi'', Czytelnik, Warszawa 1986 * ''Prześwietlone zdjęcia'', Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, Lublin 1990 * ''Cisza'', Wydawnictwo a5,

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

1994 * ''Cisza'', Pomona, Wrocław 1996 * ''Noc poetów. Warszawa pisarzy'', Centrum Sztuki – Teatr Dramatyczny, Legnica 1998 * ''Kaszel w lipcu'', Pomona, Wrocław 2000 * ''Więzień i krotochwila'', Zielona Sowa,

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2001 * ''Poematy'', Biuro Literackie, Legnica 2001 * ''Ptasia grypa'', Biuro Literackie,

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2002 * ''Kopiec kreta'', Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2002 * ''Stąd: wiersze puławskie'', Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Puław, Puławy 2002 * ''Wiersze zebrane'' (3 tomy/3 volumes), Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2005/2006 * ''Wszystko'', Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2008 * ''Nocne życie'', Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2010 * ''Zmartwychwstanie ptaszka (wiersze i sny)'' 2012

Prose

* ''Lata spokojnego słońca'', Lublin: Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, 1968 * ''A żeby ci nie było żal'', Lublin: Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, 1972 * ''Patrycja i chart afgański'',

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

: Czytelnik, 1976 * ''Do zobaczenia w Rzymie'', Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1980 * ''Lit'', Gdańsk: Marabut, 1997 * ''Proza tom 1. Opowiadania''/Prosa volume 1, Tales, Breslau: Biuro Literackie, 2005 * ''Proza tom 2. Powieści''/Prosa volume 2, Novels, Breslau: Biuro Literackie, 2006

Essay

* ''Radość czytania'' (1980). * ''Tadeusz Nowak'' (1981). * ''Daj mu tam, gdzie go nie ma'' (1996). * ''Między wierszami'', Biuro Literackie, Legnica 2002 * ''Szkice, recenzje, felietony.'', Volume 1, Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2007

Translations (selection)

D. J. Enright Dennis Joseph Enright Order of the British Empire, OBE FRSL (11 March 1920 – 31 December 2002) was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic. He authored ''Academic Year'' (1955), ''Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor'' (1969) and a wide ran ...

, ''Księga Fausta'', Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, Lublin 1984. *

Tony Harrison Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright. He was born in Beeston, Leeds and he received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University. He is one of Britain's foremost verse w ...

, ''Kumkwat dla Johna Keatsa'', PIW, Warszawa 1990. *

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

, ''No i wiesz'' (1993) (razem z Andrzej Sosnowski i Piotr Sommer). * D. J. Enright, ''Rok akademicki'' (1997). * Tony Harrison, ''Sztuka i zagłada'', Biuro Literackie, Legnica 1999

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References

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