Marcin Świetlicki (born 24 December 1961) is a Polish poet, writer, and musician. He lives and works in
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
,
Poland
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.
Świetlicki was born in
Piaski, near
Lublin
Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...
,
Poland
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. He studied
Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University">Polish literature">Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he has been living since 1980. He worked as an editor at the ''Tygodnik Powszechny'' weekly until 2004. Besides his extensive publications and readings as a poet, he also performs as an actor and heads the band Świetliki. Świetlicki has won various prizes and awards for his poetry, including the 1996
Kościelski Award.
External links
''I find the trace'', translated by Peter Constantinebiography and bibliographyat "Culture.PL" website of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute
1961 births
Living people
Polish male poets
Polish crime writers
Jagiellonian University alumni
20th-century Polish writers
21st-century Polish writers
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