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Klemen Pisk
Polish → Slovenian
(1973) – is a Slovenian writer, poet, literary translator, musician, and editor. He studied Polish language and literature at the University of Ljubljana. He…
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Maryla Laurent
Former Head of Department at the Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Lille (France). Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Awarded the Laure Bataillon Prize for The Books of Jacob – the best translated novel published in France (2018). Awarded the French order of Chevalier des Arts et Lettres for introducing awareness of Polish literature into French culture (2023). Author of academic books on the subject of literary and translation theory, and many articles. Her research interests focus on Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as on the reception of Polish literature in France via the art of translation.
Her translations were the subject of Magdalena Mitura’s habilitation thesis: The Passion of Mediation. Translation as meta-operation in French translations by Maryla Laurent, UMC-S, Lublin 2018, (364 p.)
Translations (selected)
- Stasiuk, Andrzej, Zima / L’Hiver. Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc, Paris, 2004.
- Wałęsa, Lech, Droga do prawdy / Le Chemin de vérité. Archipel, Paris, 2010. (with Sébastien Laurent-Sorel)
- Skarga, Barbara, Po wyzwoleniu / Une absurde cruauté, témoignage d’une femme au Goulag (1944–1955). Collection Contretemps, La Table ronde, Paris, 2000.
- Rylski, Eustachy, Warunek / La Condition. Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc, Paris, 2009.
- Suchan, Jarosław & Ziebińska, Karolina, UNIZM / Katarzyna Kobro, Władysław Strzemiński, Une avant-garde polonaise. Skira, Paris, 2018.
- Tischner, Józef, Filozofia dramatu / La philosophie du drame. Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2012.
- Michalski, Krzysztof, Płomień wieczności. Eseje o myślach Fryderyka Nietzschego / La Flamme de l’éternité. Essais sur la pensée de Friedrich Nietzsche. Éditions Zofia de Lannurien, Paris, 2013.
- Tokarczuk, Olga, Księgi Jakubowe / Les livres de Jakob ou le grand voyage. 2018.
- Bereś, Stanisław, Pół wieku czyśćca / Un demi-siècle de purgatoire. Entretiens avec Tadeusz Konwicki. Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc, Paris, 1993.
- Mrożek, Sławomir, Baltazar / Balthazar. Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc, Paris, 2007.
- Konwicki, Tadeusz, Bohiń / Bohini, un manoir en Lituanie. Robert Laffont, Paris, 1990.
- Konwicki, Tadeusz, Dziura w niebie / Le Trou dans le ciel. Critérion, Paris, 1992.
- Konwicki, Tadeusz, Czytadło / Roman de gare contemporain. Robert Laffont, Paris, 1994.
- Konwicki, Tadeusz, Sennik współczesny / La Clef des songes contemporains. Robert Laffont, Paris, 1983.
- Różycki, Tomasz, Bestiarium / Bestiarium. Les Éditions Le lierre embrassant la muraille, Lyon, 2017.
- Terlecki, Władysław, Drabina Jakubowa / L’Échelle de Jacob. Robert Laffont, Paris, 1992.
- Mencwel, Zbigniew, Wszystkie języki świata / Toutes les langues du monde. Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2009.
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