Piotr Fast (born 1 November 1951, in

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 official ...

) is a Polish professor, historian of

Russian literature Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to Russian-language literature. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old East Slavic were composed. By the Ag ...

, Translation Studies scholar and translator. He graduated in Russian Studies from the

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in 1975. For many years he was associated with the

University of Silesia in Katowice The University of Silesia in Katowice ( pl, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, UŚ) is an autonomous state-run university in Silesia Province, Katowice, Poland. The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergra ...

where he was hired in 1975, obtained

doctor's degree A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

in 1980, habilitated doctor’s degree in 1987), academic title of professor (1995) and performed various executive functions (including deputy rector for Student Affairs – 1990-1993). In the years 2005-2010 he acted as the rector of the College of Linguistics in Czestochowa. After that he was employed at the Tischner European University in Cracow and at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Technology and Humanities in Bielsko-Biala (2012-2014). In academic year 2014/15 he returned to the Institute of East Slavic Philology at the

. He is the author of a dozen books on the history of Russian literature, co-author of the academic textbook ''Historia literatury rosyjskiej XX wieku'' (History of 20th Century Russian Literature) edited by Andrzej Drawicz and an editor of several dozen of collective works. He has published over 200 scientific and popular science articles, reviews, translations of scholarly texts and translations of Russian prose and poetry, including

Iosif Brodsky Iosif may refer to: People *Iosif Amusin, Soviet historian *Iosif Anisim, Romanian sprint canoer * Iosif Blaga, Romanian literary theorist and politician * Iosif Bobulescu, Romanian bishop * Iosif Capotă, Romanian anti-communist resistance fight ...

Yevgeny Rein Yevgeni, Yevgeny, Yevgenii or Yevgeniy (russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii or Evgeniy, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. People with the name include: :''Note: Occasionally, a person may b ...

Nikolay Rubtsov Nikolay Mikhaylovich Rubtsov (russian: link=no, Николай Михайлович Рубцов; 3 January 1936, Yemetsk, Northern Krai19 January 1971, Vologda) was a Russian poet. Rubtsov was killed on the night of 19 January 1971, at the age ...

, Yuri Druzhnikov,

Ilya Ehrenburg Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (russian: link=no, Илья́ Григо́рьевич Эренбу́рг, ; – August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian. Ehrenburg was among the most prolific and notable autho ...

, Alexander Woronski, and

Grigory Danilevsky Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky (russian: Григо́рий Петро́вич Даниле́вский; – ) was a Russian historical novelist, and Privy Councillor of Russia. Danilevsky is well known as the author of the novel ''Beglye v Nov ...

. Piotr Fast is the author of the volume of poetry (On the Line. Poems) (2002), executive editor of the book series (Studies on Translation), the quarterly (''Russian Studies Review'') and the series (''Library of Russian Studies Review)''''.'' He is a member of the Slavic Studies Committee at the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...

, the International Comparative Literature Association and the Literary Translators Association, the chairman of the Translation Committee of the International Committee of Slavists. Piotr Fast has received the award of the Minister of National Education and has been decorated with Bronze, Silver and Gold Crosses of Merit, KEN Medal, Medal of

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

and the Gold Badge of Merit of the University of Silesia. Publications: * ''(1929–1941)'' (Poetics of Russian Production Novel (1929–1941)) (1981) * (Parabolic Current in Ilya Erenburg's prose. Between Poetics and Interpretation) (1987) * ("Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov. Writer, Epoch, Novel) (1991) * (Erenburg and Contexts. Studies in the Poetics and History of Russian Literature) (1992) * (From Thaw to Perestroika. Studies and Sketches on the Latest Russian Literature) (1992) * (Meetings with Brodsky) (1996) * ''Ideology, Aesthetics, Literary History. The Socialist Realism and its Others'' (1999) * (Meetings with Brodsky (the Old and the New)) (2000) * (Socialist Realism in Russian Literature. Doctrine, Poetics, Contexts) (2003) * (Early Works of Anatoly Kim. Selected Issues of Poetics and Interpretation) (with Katarzyna Jastrzebska, 2006) * (You Can't Understand Russia... Sketches about Books) (2010) * (Translatological Expeditions and Walks) (with Alina Swiesciak, 2010)

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Polish Literary Translators Association
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