Education
He studied Polish language and literature in the early seventies at Jagiellonian University.
He studied Polish language and literature in the early seventies at Jagiellonian University.
He was active in the Polish political opposition against the authoritarian rule, joined the Solidarity movement for human and workers’ rights as well as democracy and independence from the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He was imprisoned after Martial law in Poland against Solidarity was imposed by a Military Junta in December 1981. After his release six months later, he remained part of the Solidarity underground. He was spokesman for the 1990 presidential campaign of Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
In the early nineties he was a producer in the British Broadcasting Corporation Polish Section.
Occasionally his work appears in openDemocracy.net. His translations include Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt, co-translations of two volumes of Ko Un"s poems, and a co-translation of a book of poetry by Gary Snyder.
In 1988, he joined Tygodnik Powszechny, a liberal Catholic weekly in Krakow as Political Editor. He is often quoted and interviewed on modern religious issues.