Wilhelm Przeczek (7 April 1936 – 10 July 2006) was a
Polish
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teacher, poet, writer, and activist. He is considered one of the most important Polish writers of his generation from the region of
Trans-Olza
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.
Biography
Przeczek was born on 7 April 1936 in
Karviná,
to a
coal miner's family. He studied at a teachers' seminary in
Orlová
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and then at a college in
Prague. He worked as a teacher in Polish schools in Trans-Olza, e.g. in
Jablunkov. Przeczek was later briefly a journalist for the ''
Głos Ludu
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''Głos ...
'' newspaper. He was also an activist within the
PZKO
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(Polish Cultural and Educational Union) and member of many Polish literary organizations. Przeczek also translated
Czech,
Slovak and
Sorbian poetry to Polish and
Polish poetry
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into Czech.
During the
Prague Spring
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the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Sec ...
of 1968, Przeczek supported the reformist wing of the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. His stances led to ban of his works from 1969 to 1989 in
Czechoslovakia. His books were therefore published mainly in
Poland.
Works
Poetry
* ''Czarna calizna'' (1978)
* ''Wpisane w Beskid'' (1980)
* ''Śmierć pomysłu poetyckiego'' (1981)
* ''Szumne podszepty'' (1982)
* ''Księga Urodzaju'' (1986)
* ''Nauka wierności'' (1986)
* ''Tercet'' (1986)
* ''Przeczucie kształtu'' (1989)
* ''Notatnik liryczny'' (1990)
* ''Rękopisy nie płoną'' (1990)
* ''Promlčený počet štěstí'' (1991)
* ''Dym za paznokciami'' (1992)
* ''Na ubitej ziemi'' (1994)
* ''Mapa białych plam'' (1995)
* ''Małe nocne modlitwy'' (1996)
* ''Intimní bedeker'' (1998)
* ''Smak wyciszenia'' (1999)
* ''Stoletý kalendář'' (2001)
Prose
* ''Skrzyżowanie'' (1969) (together with Władysław Sikora)
* ''Břečťan a jiné strašidelné povídky'' (1992)
* ''Kazinkowe granie'' (1994)
* ''Bienále pivní pěny'' (1996)
References
Further reading
*
* Profile of Wilhelm Przeczek in ''
Zwrot
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'' 7/2007: 42-43.
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1936 births
2006 deaths
Writers from Karviná
Polish people from Trans-Olza
Polish translators
20th-century Polish poets
20th-century translators
Polish male poets
20th-century Polish male writers
20th-century Polish journalists