Krystyna Lenkowska (born 1957) is a Polish poet and translator. She has been included in the representative anthology of Polish women poets ''Scattering the Dark'' (White Pine Press 2016, Buffalo-New York). Her translation of poems by Emily Dickinson, the Brontës, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, Ruth Padel, Dana Gioia have been published in the literary Polish journals and books. She lives in Rzeszow.

Career as a writer

Her poems, fragments of prose, translations, essays, notes and interviews have been published in literary magazines in Poland including: Akcent, Fraza, Nowa Okolica Poetów,

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, Mexico, Mongolia, Romania, Slovakia, and Taiwan. The poem "The Eye of John Keats in Rome" received the first prize at the international competition in Sarajevo "Seeking ~~for~~ a Poem" for the year 2012. In 2013, the poet received the second prize “Menada” at the international festival of poetry DITET E NAIMIT (XVII edition in Macedonia and Albania). In 2019 in Bhubaneswar, India she was awarded 3rd place in the 39th World Congress of Poets.

Music lyrics

Lenkowska is the author of lyrics recorded by Beata Czernecka from “ Piwnica pod Baranami”, Bożena Boba-Dyga, Zbigniew Działa (RSC) and Paweł Czachur (Ratatam).

Associations

She is a member of ASSOCIATION OF POLISH WRITERS (SPP), POLISH LITERARY TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION (STL),

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Poetry in Polish

*1991 ''Walc Prowincja'' / Rzeszów *2002 ''Pochodnio, Różo'' / Nowy Świat, Warszawa *2003 ''Wiersze okienne'' / Podkarpacki Instytut Książki, Rzeszów *2008 ''Sztuka Białego'' / Instytut Wydawniczy Erica, Warszawa *2010 ''Tato i inne miejsca'' / Miniatura, Kraków *2013 ''Kry i wyspy'' / Mitel, Rzeszów *2020 ''Kiedy byłam rybą'' (lub ptakiem) / Biblioteka Stowarzyszenia Pisarzy Polskich, Kraków *2021 ''Balkon'' / Fundacja Słowo i Obraz, Augustów

Bilingual poetry

*1999 ''Keep off the Primroses'' / ''Nie deptać przylaszczek'', translation into English: Krystyna Lenkowska / YES, Rzeszów *2005 ''Eve's Choice'' / ''Wybór Ewy'' / Polski Instytut Wydawniczy, Warszawa, translation into English: Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough *2014 ''Zaległy list do pryszczatego anioła'' / ''An Overdue Letter to a Pimply Angel'' / Mitel, Rzeszów, translation into English: Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough *2014 ''Турбота'' / Lviv, translation into Ukrainian: Oleksander Gordon *2017 ''Fragment de dialogue'', translation into French: I’sabelle Macor / L’Harmattan, Paris *2017 ''Carte Orange'', translation into French: Tomasz Wojewoda / Eperons-Ostrogi, Kraków

Prose

*2016 ''Babeliada'' / FRAZA, Rzeszów

Translation

*2018 ''Jest pewien ukos światła'' Emily Dickinson, tłumaczenie i wstęp: Krystyna Lenkowska / Officyna, Łódź *2021 Emily Dickinson, Wybór poezji / Biblioteka Narodowa

Audiobook

* 2014 ''I nic się nie stało'' / Wojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Rzeszowie *2018 ''Babeliada'' / Wojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Rzeszowie

References

External links

Official website Krystyna Lenkowska
* https://www.facebook.com/krystalenko * http://sppwarszawa.pl/czlonkowie/krystyna-lenkowska/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Lenkowska, Krystyna 1957 births Polish translators Polish women poets Living people 20th-century Polish poets 21st-century Polish poets 21st-century Polish women writers 20th-century Polish women writers