Leszek Engelking


Leszek Engelking is a Polish poet, short story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator.
He graduated from Warsaw University. He received his doctorate in 2002, his postdoctoral degree in 2013. From 1984-95, he was a member of an editorial staff of "Literatura na Świecie", a Polish monthly devoted to foreign literature. From 1997–98, he was a lecturer at Warsaw University and a visiting professor at Palacký University, Olomouc. He now teaches at the University of Łódź.
He is a member of Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich
, the Polish PEN Club and of the Société Europeénne de Culture.

Works

He has published six collections of poems:
A selection of his poems have appeared in Ukrainian translation, as well as in Czech and Slovak. A small collection of his poems was published in Spanish.
, Łowicka Center, May 20, 2006
His book of short stories Szczęście i inne prozy appeared in 2007,.
He published the following monographs: Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov - podivuhodný kouzelník and Chwyt metafizyczny. Vladimir Nabokov - estetyka z sankcją wyższej rzeczywistości, Surrealism, underground, postmodernizm. Szkice o literaturze czeskiej, Codzienność i mit. Poetyka, programy i historia Grupy 42 w kontekstach dwudziestowiecznej awangardy i postawangardy, Nowe Mity. Twórczość Jáchyma Topola, and Bytom w literaturze.
Engelking edited the anthology of British and American poetry Wyspy na jeziorze, the anthology of Czech poetry Maść przeciw poezji, the selection from the works of three contemporary Slovak poets, Oleg Pastier, Karol Chmel, and Ivan Kolenič, Oko za ząb, as well as the anthology of imagist poetry Obraz i wir.
He has translated works by Nabokov, Daniela Hodrova, Jáchym Topol, Ezra Pound, Miroslav Holub, Charles Bukowski, Christopher Reid, Nikolay Gumilyov, Petr Mikeš, Ivan Wernisch, Ivan Blatný, Agneta Pleijel, Oldřich Wenzl, Richard Caddel, Jaroslav Seifert, Václav Burian, Egon Bondy, Maximilian Voloshin, David A. Carrión, Gerardo Beltrán, W.B. Yeats, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Jiří Kolář, Karel Čapek, Basil Bunting, Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Kerry Shawn Keys, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Federico García Lorca, Abel Murcia, Sergei Zavyalov, Iryna Zhylenko, Lina Kostenko, and Andrei Khadanovich.
Engelking's selection of short stories by Ladislav Klíma appeared in 2004, his translation of Michal Ajvaz’s book of poems, short stories and a novel was published in 2005. Ajvaz's novel Voyage to the South in his translation appeared in 2016.
Engelking is an associate of the American journal Paideuma, the Czech journal Slavia, and the Polish monthly Tygiel Kultury.

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