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

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

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

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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

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(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

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(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. In 2023, he received the Grand Continent Prize for his book ''The Bulb Thieves'', which, according to

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, member of the Prize Jury, "doesn't actually tell much: the day of a boy in a bar of buildings in communist Warsaw, sent by his parents, who collected a bag of coffee beans, to find a grinding machine. This story, which is not one, brings out a whole world. It’s wacky, very moving, it immerses us in this world. And we rewarded him for the somewhat selfish pleasure of being able to read it in full”. During his speech accepting the Prize, Tomasz Różycki declared

Bibliography

Each year links to its corresponding "

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in poetry" article: ;Original poetry *

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

: ''Anima, Zielona Sowa'', Kraków *

2001 The year's most prominent event was 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. The United States led a Participan ...

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

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

: ''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 60 ...

: ''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 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

: ''The Forgotten Keys'' ;Translation *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

: 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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