(b. 1979) – poet, reviewer, editor. Tadeusz Dąbrowski debuted as a poet even before he started a course in Polish studies at the University…
View profile(b. 1960) – poet, prose writer, literary critic, academic lecturer, curator of literary events.
He has published 15 poetry collections: “Dom i mrok” (Home and Murk, 1985), “Wiersz wolny” (Free Verse, 1987), “Miasteczko – prośba o przestrzeń” (A Town – Pleading for Space, 1988), “Będę przebywał jeszcze wtedy w Polsce” (I Will Still Be in Poland Then, 1991), “Młody poeta pyta o-” (The Young Poet Asks About-, 1994), “Rocznik sześćdziesiąty grzebie w papierach. Wiersze z przełomu i nowe” (The ‘60 Cohort Rummages Through Papers. Poems From the Watershed and Now, 1996), “Rok w drodze” (A Year on the Road, 2000), “Inwazja i inne wiersze” (The Invasion and Other Poems, 2004), “Zdania na wypadek. Wiersze wybrane” (Sentences Just in Case. Selected Poems, 2007), “Potrawy pośmiertne” (Posthumous Dishes, 2010), “Ody odbite” (Reflected Odes, 2012), “[małe zawsze]” ([a small forever], 2017), “Piosenka o przymierzaniu” (A Song About a Fitting, 2019), “Silnik na trawie” (An Engine on the Grass, 2022), “List do prawnuków” (A Letter to the Great-Grandchildren, 2024) and the selection “Jeszcze inna historia. Wiersze wybrane” (Yet a Different Story. Selected Poems, 2015), 11 prose books, 12 of critical sketches on literature, and two children’s books. He published his poems and reviews already in the 1970s. In the 1990s he became one of the most active critics attending to the new poetry of the era; his collection of sketches, “Nasi klasycyści, nasi barbarzyńcy. Szkice o nowej poezji” (Our Classicists, Our Barbarians. Sketches on New Poetry, 1999) was widely discussed. For many years he worked as a Polish teacher and lecturer, teaching writing. Currently he is a University of Wrocław professor, working at the Faculty of Social Communication and Media Studies. He has been a driving force of Lower Silesia’s cultural life since the 1990s. Today he co-organizes the Góry Literatury (Mountains of Literature) Festival with Olga Tokarczuk. He has been a juror of multiple national poetry competitions, and in the years 2016–2021 was a chapter member of the Silesius Poetry Award.
He has been awarded the Marek Jodłowski Award (1994), the Barbara Sadowska Award (1997), the Ryszard Milczewski-Bruno Award (1999). His volume of sketches “Rozproszone głosy. Notatki krytyka” (Scattered Voices. Notes of a Critic) was nominated for the Nike Literary Award in 2007. His poems and prose works have been translated into Czech, Bulgarian, German and Serbian, and included in many anthologies.
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