Tomasz Różycki (born 1970) is a Polish poet and translator. He studied Romance Languages at the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

in Kraków, and taught French at the Foreign Languages Teaching College in Opole. In addition to his teaching, he translated and published Stéphane Mallarmé's "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" in 2005, and continues to translate from French for publication. He has published six books of poetry: ''Vaterland'' (1997), ''Anima'' (1999), ''Chata uimaita'' (''Country Cottage'', 2001), ''Świat i Antyświat'' (''World and Antiworld'', 2003), the book-length poem ''Dwanaście stacji'' (''Twelve Stations'', 2004), ''Kolonie'' (''Colonies'', 2006) and ''The Forgotten Keys'' (2007). His work has appeared in literary journals such as ''Czas Kultury'', ''Odra'', ''Studium'' and ''

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'', and in German, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and German poetry anthologies.

Awards and recognition

Tomasz Różycki gained critical acclaim for "Twelve Stations." In 2004, the book-length poem won the prestigious Kościelski Foundation Prize and was named best Book of the Spring 2004 by the Raczyński Library in Poznań. He has received the Krzysztof Kamiel Baczyński Prize (1997), the Czas Kultury Prize (1997), The Rainer Maria Rilke Award (1998), and the Joseph Brodskie Prize from ''Zeszyty Literackie'' (2006). He has been nominated twice for the NIKE Prize (2005 and 2007), and once for the Paszport Polityki (2004). Poland's top literary award. "Colonies," Mira Rosenthal's 2013 translation into English of ''Kolonie'' (published by Zephyr Press), was shortlisted for the 2014

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and the 2014 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (UK), and won the 2014 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. It was long-listed for the 2014 PEN Poetry in Translation Award.

Bibliography

Each year links to its corresponding "

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in poetry" article: ;Original poetry *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

: ''Vaterland'', Łódź: Stowarzyszenie Literackie im. K.K. BaczyńskiegoWeb page title
"Tomasz Różycki"
, at Culture.pl website, retrieved March 1, 2010 *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

: ''Anima, Zielona Sowa'', Kraków *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

: ''Chata uimaita'' ("Country Cottage"), Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

: ''Świat i Antyświat'' ("World and Antiworld"), Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

: ''Dwanaście stacji'' ("Twelve Stations"), a book-length poem, awarded the 2004 Kościelski Prize; Kraków: Znak *

: ''Wiersze'', containing all the poems from Różycki's first four poetry books, Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża *

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

: ''Kolonie'' ("Colonies"), 77 poems, 86 pp, Kraków: Znak, Web page title
"Tomasz Różycki, 'Kolonie'/'Colonies'"
at Culture.pl website, retrieved March 1, 2010 *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

: ''The Forgotten Keys'' ;Translation *

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

: translator, ''Rzut kośćmi nigdy nie zniesie przypadku'', translated from the original French of

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, Kraków: Korporacja Ha!Art

References

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