Cezary Geroń (1960–1998) was a Polish poet, journalist, translator and teacher. Born on 28 July 1960 in Jasło, he graduated from a local college in nearby

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. Afterwards he moved to

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, where he joined the Faculty of French Studies. He then moved to the Warsaw University, from which he graduated. He started working as a journalist and correspondent for the ''

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''. At that time he started to translate Italian poetry, notably the works of Eugenio Montale, Alfonso Gatto, Mario Luzi and

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. He was also active as a journalist, speaker and translator for the Polish Radio and the

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. In 1991 he started working as a teacher of the history of music, Polish and Italian languages at the Warsaw-based 1st Community College ''Bednarska''. Having been of poor health for all of his life, he died suddenly of a heart disease on 26 April 1998 and was buried in Jasło. After his death, several dozen manuscripts of his poems were collected from among his friends and published in two collections.

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Poems by Cezary Geroń
* Polish schoolteachers 1960 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Polish translators 20th-century Polish poets Polish male poets 20th-century Polish male writers 20th-century Polish journalists {{Poland-poet-stub