Leszek Engelking

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Leszek Engelking
Warsaw University

Leszek Maria Engelking (2 February 1955[1] – 22 October 2022) was a Polish poet, short story writer, novelist, translator, literary critic, essayist, Polish philologist, and literary academic, scholar, and lecturer.

Engelking translated a vast amount of literature into Polish, from Spanish, English, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovak but in particular from Czech.[2]

Biography

Education, editorial, and academic career

Engelking was born in

Palacký University, Olomouc (Czech Republic). He taught at the University of Łódź.[3]

Literary Memberships

Engelking was a member of

Polish PEN Club since 2000,[1] and of the Société Europeénne de Culture since 1994.[1]

Engelking was also an associate of the American journal Paideuma (which is devoted to Ezra Pound), the Czech journal Slavia,[4] and the Polish monthly Tygiel Kultury.[1]

Poetic career

Engelking receives the "Literatura na Świecie" Award - Warsaw, June 25, 2009

He has published collections of poems:

  • Autobus do hotelu Cytera (A Bus to the Cythera Hotel, 1979)[1]
  • Haiku własne i cudze (Haiku by Myself and Others, 1991)[1]
  • Mistrzyni kaligrafii i inne wiersze (The Mistress of Calligraphy and Other Poems, 1994)
    ISBN 83-7081-115-9
  • Dom piąty (The Fifth House, 1997)
    ISBN 83-7081-377-1
  • I inne wiersze (And Other Poems, 2000; new and selected poems)
    ISBN 83-7081-395-X
  • Muzeum dzieciństwa (Museum of Childhood, 2011)
    ISBN 978-83-62717-13-2
  • Komu kibicują umarli?, (For Which Team Do the Deceased Root?, 2013)
    ISBN 978-83-62717-75-0

A selection of his poems have appeared in

ISBN 978-84-937657-4-3
; depósito legal Z-42-2010).

Leszek Engelking with Czech writer and translator Vaclav Burian - Warsaw, Łowicka Center, 20 May 2006

Short story and monograph writer career

Engelking's book of short stories Szczęście i inne prozy (Good Fortune and Other Stories) appeared in 2007,

ISBN 978-83-7233-116-8
.

Engelking published the following monographs: Vladimir Nabokov (1989,

ISBN 978-83-65786-17-3
).

Engelking edited the anthology of British and American poetry Wyspy na jeziorze (1988, The Lake Isles), the anthology of Czech poetry Maść przeciw poezji (2008, Ointment against Poetry), the selection from the works of three contemporary Slovak poets,

ISBN 978-83-938702-2-6
).

Literary translator career

He has translated works by Nabokov,

Juana Ines de la Cruz, Federico García Lorca, Abel Murcia, Sergey Zavyalov, Iryna Zhylenko, Lina Kostenko, and Andrei Khadanovich.[citation needed
]

Engelking's selection of short stories by Ladislav Klíma appeared in 2004 (Jak będzie po śmierci [How It Will Be after Death]), his translation of Michal Ajvaz’s book of poems, short stories and a novel was published in 2005 (Morderstwo w hotelu Intercontinental. Powrót starego warana. Inne miasto The Murder in the Intercontinental Hotel. The Return of the Old Comodo Dragon. Other City). Ajvaz's novel Voyage to the South in his translation appeared in 2016 (Podróż na Południe).[1]

Personal life and death

Engelking's son,

lager beer,[2] and Armani perfumes.[2]

Engelking died on 22 October 2022, at the age of 67.[2]

Honours

  • The Award of "Literatura na Świecie" for translation (1989, 2003, 2009, 2018),[8]
  • The Award of Polish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Society (2000)[1]
  • Premia Bohemica (the Czech prize; 2003)[9]
  • Polish PEN Club Award (2010)[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Instytut Teorii Literatury, Teatru i Sztuk Audiowizualnych - dr Leszek Engelking". 5 February 2011. Archived from the original on 5 February 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  2. ^
    wprost.pl (in Polish). Wprost
    . 23 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Kulturoznastwo: Pracownicy" [Culture Studies: Staff]. University of Łódź.
  4. ^ "Slovanský ústav AVČR - Slavia – bližší údaje".
  5. ^ Ksiezopolska, Irena (2013). "Motyl nad Szachownicą: Metafizyka a styl w rozprawie Leszka Engelkinga o Nabokovie". Kronos. 3.
  6. ^ ""Pod dwiema postaciami" Daniela Hodrová".
  7. ^ ""Dzieci Prometeusza" Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav". w.bibliotece.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Literatura na Świecie. Strona główna" (in Polish). Literatura na świecie. 10 April 2022.
  9. Wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Gazeta Wyborcza
    .
  10. ^ "Polish PEN-club Award for Leszek Engelking | Event | Culture.pl". Archived from the original on 16 June 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

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