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Adam Zagajewski

アダム・ザガイェフスキ

Adam Zagajewski

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1945-06-21 (Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine))
死没
2021-03-21 (Kraków, Poland) 75歳
国籍
Polish
言語
Polish
宗教
Roman Catholic (influence)
居住地歴
Gliwice, Poland → Paris, France (1982–2002) → Kraków, Poland (returned 2002—) → Lviv (birthplace, now Ukraine)

経歴

職業
Poet, Essayist, Translator, Novelist, Academic
活動期間
1967年〜2021年
所属
Polish Writers' Association (Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich), University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought (affiliate)
所属団体
Polish Writers' Association
影響を受けた人物
Czesław Miłosz
影響を与えた人物
Younger Polish poets

学歴

Jagiellonian University
Psychology and Philosophy
期間: 1960年代
国: Poland
Studied psychology and philosophy in Kraków

受賞歴

Neustadt International Prize for Literature
2004
主催: World Literature Today / Neustadt Prize
結果: 受賞
Griffin Poetry Prize — Lifetime Recognition Award
2016
部門: Lifetime
主催: Griffin Poetry Prize
結果: 受賞
Princess of Asturias Award for Literature
2017
部門: 文学
主催: Princess of Asturias Foundation
結果: 受賞
Struga Poetry Evenings — Golden Wreath
2018
主催: Struga Poetry Evenings
結果: 受賞
Heinrich Mann Prize
2015
主催: Heinrich Mann Prize
結果: 受賞
Vilenica Prize
1996
主催: Vilenica Festival
結果: 受賞
Kościelski Award
1975
主催: Kościelski Foundation
結果: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1992
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: 受賞
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
2019
主催: Pour le Mérite (German Federal honour)
結果: 受賞
Legion d'Honneur
2016
主催: French government
結果: 受章
Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry
2016
主催: Hungarian PEN Club
結果: 受賞
Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize
2016
主催: University of Tübingen
結果: 受賞
Nike Award (nominated)
2018
対象作品: Poezja dla początkujących (Poetry for Beginners) — essays
主催: Nike Award (Poland)
結果: ノミネート
Bronze Cross of Merit
主催: Polish government
結果: 受章
Order of Polonia Restituta (Officer's Cross)
主催: Polish government
結果: 受章(複数回)

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Unseen Hand

2009年 Poetry

A collection of recent poems dealing with memory, history, and the presence of time in everyday life.

memoryhistorytimethe everyday
翻訳
  • Unseen Hand: Poems (English translation)

Another Beauty

1998年 Essays

An essay collection on beauty, imagination and memory; translated into English and internationally recognized.

beautyimaginationremembrance
翻訳
  • Another Beauty (English translation)

Asymmetry

2014年 Poetry

One of his important later collections, containing poems that intersect personal memory and history.

memoryhistoryloss
翻訳
  • Asymmetry: Poems (English translation)

Try to Praise the Mutilated World

2001年 Poem

A poem published in 2001 that appeared in The New Yorker shortly after 9/11 and became widely known.

losspraiseintersection of everyday life and history

全著作

  • Komunikat (1972)
  • Sklepy mięsne (1975)
  • List. Oda do wielkości (1983)
  • Jechać do Lwowa (1985)
  • Plótno (1990)
  • Ziemia ognista (1994)
  • Trzej aniołowie / Three Angels (1998)
  • Pragnienie (1999)
  • Powrót (2003)
  • Anteny (2005)
  • Unseen Hand (2009)
  • Selected Poems (2010)
  • Asymmetry (2014)
  • True Life (2019)
  • Numerous essays (e.g., Another Beauty; Poezja dla początkujących)

作品の翻訳

  • Tremor (English translation, 1987)
  • Canvas (English translation, 1994)
  • Mysticism for Beginners: Poems (English translation, 1999)
  • Without End: New and Selected Poems (English translation, 2003)
  • Selected Poems (English translation, 2004)
  • Unseen Hand: Poems (English translation, 2011)
  • Asymmetry: Poems (English translation, 2018)
  • True Life (English translation, 2023)

作風・主題

文体
Lyrical style that connects memory and historyPlain diction bearing philosophical and metaphysical undertones
頻出モチーフ
nightdreamsmemoryhistorytimesilencedeathexile/homeland

評価・遺産

A leading poet of Poland's New Wave generation, internationally acclaimed as a poet, essayist and translator. Renowned for poems that evoke memory and history and recipient of multiple international honours.

関連学会

  • Polish Writers' Association

大衆文化への影響

  • The poem 'Try to Praise the Mutilated World' was published in The New Yorker shortly after 9/11 and has been widely cited.

引用

  • Try to praise the mutilated world.
    出典: Poem 'Try to Praise the Mutilated World', The New Yorker (2001) (2001年)
  • When imagination connects with experience, poetry gains power.
    出典: Critical commentary / interviews (summarized)

豆知識

  • Born in Lwów in 1945; family moved to central Poland the same year.
  • Emigrated to Paris in 1982 and returned to Poland in 2002, settling in Kraków.
  • Frequently mentioned as a potential Nobel Prize in Literature candidate during his lifetime.