Jarosław Mikołajewski

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Jarosław Mikołajewski (born 20 March 1960 in Warsaw) is a Polish poet,[1] writer and translator of the Italian language. He is also the author of children's books, essayist and journalist.

Life and career[edit]

Between 1983-1998, he worked at the Faculty of Italian Studies of the University of Warsaw. Since 1998, he has been working for the Gazeta Wyborcza daily newspaper. Between 2006-2012, he served as head of the Polish Institute in Rome.[2]

His books were published in Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, United States, Hungary, United Kingdom.[3] His work is also translated to following languages: Albanian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Czech, Ukrainian, Greek. He translated among others: Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Leopardi, Montale, Ungaretti, Luzi, Penna, Pavese, Pasolini.

He also translated children's classic to Polish - among others: Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio (Polish title Pinokio: historia pajacyka, 2011) and some works of Gianni Rodari.

In several volumes, and especially in Którzy mnie znają / Those Who Know Me (2003), he reaches for the eternal subjects of poetry: love and death.[4]

His Froth: Poems (Zbite szklanki: wybór wierszy, 2010) translated into English was named among the 75 best of the year 2013 by World Literature Today (WLT).[5][6]

He is the recipient of the Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Poetry Award (1991),[7] Literary Award of the Capital city of Warsaw (2011, 2012),[8][9] Silver Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis (2014)[10] Beata Pawlak Award (2016),[11] and the Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński Award (2019).[12] He is also a juror for the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.[13]

In 2019, he published a book Cień w cień. Za cieniem Zuzanny Ginczanki which deals with the life and literary legacy of Zuzanna Ginczanka, one of the greatest poets of the interwar period in Poland.[14]

Selected works[edit]

Poetry[edit]

  • A świadkiem śnieg (1991)
  • Kołysanka dla ojca (1994)
  • Zabójstwo z miłości (1997)
  • Mój dom przestały nawiedzać duchy. Wiersze z lat 1988-1998 (1998)
  • Nie dochodząc Pięknej (2000) - (Not Reaching Piękna)[15]
  • Którzy mnie znają (2003) - (Those Who Know Me)
  • Któraś rano (2005)
  • Coś mnie zmartwiło ale zapomniałem (2008)
  • Zbite szklanki (2010) - (Froth: Poems)[16][17]
  • Na wdechu (2012)

Prose[edit]

  • Herbata dla wielbłąda czyli Sprawy i sprawki detektywa McCoya (2004) – Crime fiction
  • Męski zmysł (2005)
  • Rzymska komedia (2011) - (Roman Comedy)[18]
  • Największe szczęście, największy ból (2014, a5) – conversations with Julia Hartwig
  • Uśmiech Bambola (2015, Media Rodzina) – children's detective story
  • Szklane oczy (2015, Media Rodzina) – children's detective story
  • Zwycięski koń (2015, Media Rodzina) – children's detective story
  • Wielki przypływ (2015, Dowody na istnienie) – reportage
  • Syreni śpiew (2016, Media Rodzina) – children's detective story
  • Kot w worku (2016, Media Rodzina) – children's detective story
  • Wędrówka Nabu (2016, Austeria) – children's short story
  • Terremoto (2017, Dowody na Istnienie) – reportage nominated to the Nike Award in 2018[19]
  • Szpitalne (2018, Austeria) - essay
  • Syrakuzańskie (2019, Austeria) - a reportage
  • Cień w cień. Za cieniem Zuzanny Ginczanki (2019, Dowody na Istnienie) - a biographic essay

References[edit]

  1. ^ Domoslawski, Artur (2012-07-10). Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life. Verso Books. pp. 83–. ISBN 9781844678587. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Jarosław Mikołajewski i jego "Rzymska Komedia"". Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Mikołajewski, Jarosław". www.viaf.org. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
  4. ^ "A Review of Events in Polish Poetry at the Turn of the 20th and 21st Centuries | Artykuł | Culture.pl". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
  5. ^ WLT, University of Oklahoma's bimonthly magazine of international literature and culture, has been recognized by the Nobel Prize committee as one of the "best edited and most informative literary publications"
  6. ^ "5 Polish Translations Rank Amongst World's Top 75 Best | Artykuł | Culture.pl". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
  7. ^ "Przemysław Owczarek laureatem nagrody im. Kazimiery Iłłakowiczówny". Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Laureaci". Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Laureaci". Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Największe gwiazdy polskiego kina na przyznaniu medali "Zasłużony Kulturze"". Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  11. ^ "Nagroda im. Beaty Pawlak dla Mikołajewskiego i Rosiaka". Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  12. ^ "Laureaci Nagrody im. Konstantego Ildefonsa Gałczyńskiego "Orfeusz"". Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  13. ^ "Five Years of the Zbigniew Herbert Award | Article | Culture.pl".
  14. ^ "Cień w cień Za cieniem Zuzanny Ginczanki". Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Not Reaching Piękna - Jarosław Mikołajewski | Language & Literature w Culture.pl". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
  16. ^ "Froth: Poems by Jarosław Mikołajewski". losangeles.msz.gov.pl. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
  17. ^ Guzlowski, John (2013-03-28). "Writing the Polish Diaspora: Jarosław Mikołajewski's Froth: Poems". Writing the Polish Diaspora. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
  18. ^ "Award of the Capital City of Warsaw for the book by Jarosław Mikołajewski 'Rzymska komedia' (Roman Comedy)". gazetapl (in Polish). Retrieved 2016-06-11.
  19. ^ "20 książek nominowanych do Nagrody Nike 2018". Retrieved 2020-05-07.

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