Polish poet nominated for US award
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
28.01.2019 08:00
Polish poet Adam Zagajewski is among the finalists for the 2019 awards of the National Book Critics Circle in the United States.
Adam Zagajewski. Photo: Andrzej Bołdaniuk/PR
Zagajewski is one of five nominees in the poetry category for his volume of poems Asymmetry, translated by Clare Cavanagh and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Zagajewski was born in 1945 in Lwów (now Lviv in western Ukraine), but his family was resettled after Poland's borders were redrawn in the wake of World War II.
An opponent of Poland’s communist government, he emigrated to France in 1982.
He returned to Poland in 2002, settling in the southern city of Kraków, where he had studied philosophy and psychology as a young man.
Several volumes of his poetry and essays have been translated into many languages.
In 2016, he received the Leopold Lucas Prize, a prestigious award for humanists presented by the University of Tübingen in Germany for outstanding achievements in promoting tolerance and understanding between people and nations.
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