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) (, UMCS) is a public research university, in Lublin, Poland. It is named in honour of Marie Curie-Sklodowska. The University was founded on October 23, 1944, by the Lublin Committee during the Second W ...

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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

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

Gdynia Literary Prize Gdynia Literary Prize () 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 was established in 2006 by Wojc ...

as well as the

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and was also nominated for Poland's top literary prize

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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 () is a Polish international literary award established in 2006 and presented by the city of Wrocław, Lower Silesia. The award is given annually for best prose books writ ...

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 Ruff Jameson (April 14, 1934 – September 22, 2024) was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmode ...

, ''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 *

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, ''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 novel ''Frankenstein, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an History of science fiction# ...

, ''Frankenstein czyli Współczesny Prometeusz'', Vesper, Czerwonak, 2013 * Jenny Diski, ''Lata sześćdziesiąte'', Officyna, Łódź, 2013 *

Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature ''The Wind in the Willows'' (1908). Born in Scotland, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in ...

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

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

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

Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff (born Gabriele Mintz; September 28, 1931 – March 24, 2024) was an Austrian-born American poetry scholar and critic, known for her study of avant-garde poetry. Perloff was a professor at Catholic University, the University of ...

, ''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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