Jerzy Jarniewicz (Polish pronunciation: ; born 4 May 1958) is a

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poet,

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, translator and essayist. He was awarded the 2022

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 ...

, the most important distinction in

Polish literature Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland over the centuries have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Latin, ...

as well as the

Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides. They typically have a commemorative purpose of some kind, and many are presented as awards. They may be int ...

(2006).

Life and career

Born in

Łowicz Łowicz is a town in central Poland with 27,896 inhabitants (2020). It is situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975–1998). Together with a nearby station of Bednary, Łowicz is a ma ...

in 1958, he is a graduate of the

Bolesław Prus Aleksander Głowacki (20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus (), was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world li ...

High School No. 21 in

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...

. He studied English language and literature as well as philosophy at the

University of Łódź The University of Łódź (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Łódzki'', Latin: ''Universitas Lodziensis'') is a public research university founded in 1945 in Łódź, Poland, as a continuation of three higher education institutions functioning in Łódź in ...

and between 1984 and 1985 at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. He is an editor of the literary monthly ''

Literatura na Świecie ''Literatura na Świecie'' (''World Literature'') was, during the times of the Polish People's Republic, one of the most widely read and sought after periodicals in Poland. The magazine was started in 1971. Its headquarters is in Warsaw. In the 197 ...

'' and published literary criticism articles in ''

Tygodnik Powszechny ''Tygodnik Powszechny'' (, ''The Common Weekly'') is a Polish Roman Catholic weekly magazine, published in Kraków, which focuses on social, cultural and political issues. It was established in 1945 under the auspices of Cardinal Adam Stefan Sap ...

'' and ''

Gazeta Wyborcza ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first Polish daily newspaper after the era of "real socialism" and one of Poland's newspapers of record, covering the g ...

'' as well as collaborated with such British literary magazines as ''

Poetry Review ''Poetry Review'' is the magazine of The Poetry Society, edited by the poet Emily Berry. Founded in 1912, shortly after the establishment of the Society, previous editors have included poets Muriel Spark, Adrian Henri, Andrew Motion and Maurice R ...

'' and ''

Areté ''Areté'' was an arts magazine, published three times a year, edited and founded in 1999 by the poet Craig Raine. The magazine aimed to give detailed coverage of theatre, fiction, and poetry, while also serving as a platform for new writing in ...

''. He has taught

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...

at the Univeristy of Łódź and the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

. He also lectured at such institutions as the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

Sheffield Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is Historic counties o ...

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

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in Prague,

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and

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. In 2011, he became a member of the Council of the National Culture Center (

: ''Narodowe Centrum Kultury''). He is a former member of 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 ...

(PAN) and served as a jury member 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 ...

. He is also a member of the Association of Translators of Literature and

Collegium Invisibile Collegium Invisibile is an academic society founded in 1995 in Warsaw that affiliates outstanding Polish students in the humanities and science with distinguished scholars in accordance with the idea of a liberal education. The association aim ...

. His main areas of interest include contemporary

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and

Irish poetry Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish language, Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two mai ...

literary translation Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transl ...

, and the history of the

Counterculture of the 1960s The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world in the 1960s and has been ongoing to the present day. The aggregate movement gained momentum as the civil rights mo ...

. He translated the works of such English-language writers as

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...

Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...

John Banville William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry J ...

Ursula Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the ''Earthsea'' fantasy series. She was f ...

and

Craig Raine Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is a notable pioneer of Martian poetry, a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects. He was a fellow of ...

. In 2006, he was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit and Bronze

. In 2008, he received a nomination to the

for his work ''Znaki firmowe''. In 2018, he won the Silesius Poetry Award in the Book of the Year category for ''Puste noce'' (Empty Nights). In 2022, he received the most prestigious Polish literary distinction, the

, for his collection of poetry entitled ''Mondo Cane''. The same year, he was also nominated to the

Wisława Szymborska Award The Wisława Szymborska Award is a Polish annual international literature prize presented by the Wisława Szymborska Foundation. It was established in 2013, and was named in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012). ...

Publications

Poetry

*''Korytarze'' (1984) *''Rzeczy oczywistość'' (1992) *''Rozmowa będzie możliwa'' (1993) *''Są rzeczy których nie ma'' (1995) *''Niepoznaki'', published by Biuro Literackie Port Legnica (2000) *''Po śladach'' (2000) *''Dowód z tożsamości'', published by Biuro Literackie Port Legnica (2003) *''Oranżada'', published by Biuro Lirerackie, Wrocław, (2005) () *''Skądinąd. 1977–2007'' (2007) *''Makijaż'' (2009) *''Wybór wiersza'' (2012) *''Na dzień dzisiejszy i chwilę obecną'' (2012) *''Woda na Marsie'' (2015) *''Puste noce'' (2017) *''Sankcje. Wybór wierszy i wypowiedzi'' (2018) *''Confiscarea instrumentelor'' (2019) *''Mondo cane'' (2021)

Literary criticism

*''The Uses of the Commonplace in Contemporary British Poetry'' (1994) *''Lista obecności. Szkice o dwudziestowiecznej prozie brytyjskiej i irlandzkiej'' (2000) *''W brzuchu wieloryba. Szkice o dwudziestowiecznej poezji brytyjskiej i irlandzkiej'' (2001) *''The Bottomless Centre. The Uses of History in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney'' (2002) *''Larkin. Odsłuchiwanie wierszy'' (2006) *''Znaki firmowe. Szkice o współczesnej prozie amerykańskiej i kanadyjskiej'' (2007) *''Od pieśni do skowytu. Szkice o poetach amerykańskich'' (2008) *''Heaney. Wiersze pod dotyk'' (2011) *''Gościnność słowa. Szkice o przekładzie literackim'' (2012) *''Ekphrasis in the Poetry of Derek Mahon'' (2013) *''In the Shadow of Foreign Tongues. Essays on Irish Poets'' (2014) *''Podsłuchy i podglądy'' (2015) *''All You Need Is Love. Sceny z życia kontrkultury'' (2016) *''Tłumacz między innymi. Szkice o przekładach, językach i literaturze'' (2018) *''Bunt wizjonerów'' (2019) *''Sizif pobednik. Ogledi o knijzevnom prevodu'' (2021)

References

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Life and career

Publications

Poetry

Literary criticism

See also

References