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Stanisław Barańczak

すたにすわふ・ばらんちゃく

Stanisław Barańczak

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1946-11-13 (Poznań)
Died
2014-12-26 (Newtonville, Massachusetts) age 68
Nationality
Polish
Languages
Polish, English
Residence History
Poznań, Poland → Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Career

Occupations
poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator, lecturer
Active Years
1965-2014
Affiliations
Adam Mickiewicz University, Harvard University
Influenced By
Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Robert Frost

Education

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Philology
Degree: Ph.D.
Country: Poland
Doctoral dissertation on the poetic language of Miron Białoszewski

Awards

Kościelski Award
1972
Result: 受賞
PEN Translation Prize
1996
Organization: PEN
Result: 受賞
Nike Award
1999
Work: Surgical Precision
Result: 受賞
Silesius Poetry Award
2009
Result: 受賞
Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis
2014
Result: 受賞
Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
2016
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Korekta twarzy

1968 Poetry

Early poetry collection

Critique of languageSocial order

Chirurgiczna precyzja

1998 Poetry

Nike Award-winning book

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Podróż zimowa

1994 Poetry

Later poetry collection

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Bibliography

  • Korekta twarzy (1968)
  • Dziennik poranny (1968)
  • Jednym tchem (1970)
  • Ja wiem, że to niesłuszne (1977)

Translations by Author

  • Translations of William Shakespeare's plays
  • E.E. Cummings 150 Poems (1983)

Translations of Works

  • Artificial Respiration (English, 1989)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Outstandingly fluent and flexible languageMaster of poetic formParnassist
Recurring Motifs
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Health

  • Parkinson's disease
    1999年以降
    Caused departure from Harvard in 1999

Legacy

Prominent representative of the Polish New Wave and one of the greatest translators of English poetry into Polish and vice versa.

Trivia

  • Sister is novelist Małgorzata Musierowicz.
  • Some poems set to music by Jan Krzysztof Kelus.