Maciej Płaza (born 16 December 1976, in Opinogóra) is a

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writer, literary scholar and translator of

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Life and career

He has a PhD in literary studies from

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (MCSU) ( pl, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, UMCS) was founded October 23, 1944 in Lublin. It is named in honour of Marie Curie-Sklodowska. Currently the number of students is almost 36,000. The ...

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. He is a laureate of the ''Literature in the World'' Award for his translation of H.P. Lovecraft's collection of short stories ''The Dunwich Horror and Other Frightful Tales'' and was nominated for The Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński Translation Work Award for his translation of

Arthur Machen Arthur Machen (; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. Hi ...

's novel ''The Hill of Dreams''. In 2016, he became the recipient of the

Gdynia Literary Prize Gdynia Literary Prize ( pl, Nagroda Literacka Gdynia) is a Polish literary prize, which is awarded annually to authors of the best books published in the previous year in the prose, poetry, essay and (since 2014) translation categories. It wa ...

as well as the

Kościelski Award The Kościelski Award is an independent Polish literary award, awarded since 1962 by the Geneva-based Kościelski Foundation. The jury issues annual awards to "promising writers" 40 years of age or younger. Past winners have included Sławomir ...

and was also nominated for Poland's top literary prize

Nike Award The Nike Literary Award ( pl, Nagroda Literacka „Nike") is a literary prize awarded each year for the best book of a single living author writing in Polish and published the previous year. It is widely considered the most important award for ...

for his collection of stories entitled ''Skoruń''. In 2018, he won the

Angelus Award The Angelus Central European Literature Award also known as Angelus Award (Polish: ''Nagroda Literacka Europy Środkowej Angelus'') is a Polish international literary award established in 2006 and presented by the city of Wrocław, Lower Silesia ...

for his novel ''Robinson in Bolechów'' becoming the first Polish writer to do so.

Works

Scholarly works

*''O poznaniu w twórczości Stanisława Lema,'' Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław, 2006

Novels

*''Skoruń'', Wydawnictwo W.A.B., Warsaw, 2015 *''Robinson w Bolechowie'', Wydawnictwo W.A.B., Warsaw, 2017 *''Golem'', Wydawnictwo W.A.B., Warszaw 2021

Translations

Christos Tsiolkas Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for '' The Slap'', which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and t ...

, ''Martwa Europa'', Replika, Poznań, 2010 *

Fredric Jameson Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. James ...

, ''Archeologie przyszłości: pragnienie zwane utopią i inne fantazje naukowe'', Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków, 2011 (co-author) *

, ''Postmodernizm czyli Logika kulturowa późnego kapitalizmu'', Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków, 2011 *

Brian McHale Brian G. McHale is a US academic and literary theorist who writes on a range of fiction and poetics, mainly relating to postmodernism and narrative theory. He is currently Distinguished Humanities Professor of English at Ohio State University. His ...

, ''Powieść postmodernistyczna'', Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków, 2011 * H.P. Lovecraft, ''Zgroza w Dunwich i inne przerażające opowieści'', Vesper, Poznań, 2012 * H.P. Lovecraft, ''Przyszła na Sarnath zagłada: opowieści niesamowite i fantastyczne'', Vesper, Czerwonak, 2016 *

Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic fiction, Gothic novel ''Frankenstein, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an History of scie ...

, ''Frankenstein czyli Współczesny Prometeusz'', Vesper, Czerwonak, 2013 *

Jenny Diski Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds; 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer. She had a troubled childhood, but was taken in and mentored by the novelist Doris Lessing; she lived in Lessing's house for four years. Diski was educated a ...

, ''Lata sześćdziesiąte'', Officyna, Łódź, 2013 *

Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for ''The Wind in the Willows'' (1908), a classic of children's literature, as well as ''The Reluctant Dragon (short story), T ...

, ''O czym szumią wierzby'', Vesper, Poznań, 2014 *

Mark Helprin Mark Helprin (born June 28, 1947) is an American novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Mem ...

, ''Zimowa opowieść'', Wydawnictwo Otwarte, Kraków, 2014, (co-author) *

, ''Pamiętnik z mrówkoszczelnej kasety'', Wydawnictwo Otwarte, Kraków, 2014 *

Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff (born September 28, 1931) is an Austrian-born poetry scholar and critic in the United States. Early life Perloff was born Gabriele Mintz into a secularized Jewish family in Vienna. The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany exacer ...

, ''Ostrze ironii: modernizm w cieniu monarchii habsburskiej'', Ossolineum, Wrocław, 2018 *DeSales Harrison, ''Zostaw ten świat pełen płaczu'', Marginesy, Warszawa, 2019 *

, Wzgórze przyśnień, PIW, Warszawa, 2020

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