Background
Adam Zagajewski was born on June 21, 1945 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv in Ukraine). He is a son of Tadeusz Zagajewski and Ludwika (Turska) Zagajewska. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to the city of Gliwice.
Adam Zagajewski
Górnych Wałów 29, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Andrzej Strug V High School where Adam Zagajewski studied.
Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
The Jagiellonian University where Adam Zagajewski studied psychology and philosophy.
Adam Zagajewski in 1993.
Marii Konopnickiej 26, 30-302 Kraków, Poland
Adam Zagajewski during an evening of Stanislaw Baranczak's poetry, at the Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow Manggha. Krakow, Poland. 19 February 2015.
Author Adam Zagajewski receives the Princesa de Asturias Awards 2017 for Literature at the Campoamor Theater on October 20, 2017 in Oviedo, Spain.
The Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta wich Adam Zagajewski received.
The Bronze Cross of Merit which Adam Zagajewski received.
Górnych Wałów 29, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Andrzej Strug V High School where Adam Zagajewski studied.
Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
The Jagiellonian University where Adam Zagajewski studied psychology and philosophy.
The Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta wich Adam Zagajewski received.
The Bronze Cross of Merit which Adam Zagajewski received.
Adam Zagajewski in 1993.
Marii Konopnickiej 26, 30-302 Kraków, Poland
Adam Zagajewski during an evening of Stanislaw Baranczak's poetry, at the Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow Manggha. Krakow, Poland. 19 February 2015.
Author Adam Zagajewski receives the Princesa de Asturias Awards 2017 for Literature at the Campoamor Theater on October 20, 2017 in Oviedo, Spain.
(The second collection of autobiographical and literary wr...)
The second collection of autobiographical and literary writing by one of Poland's greatest contemporary poets features a Job-like letter to God and a series of short philosophical essays, among other writings. By the author of Solidarity, Solitude.
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1995
(The poems are about nature, history, the life of cities, ...)
The poems are about nature, history, the life of cities, the transformations of art, the spiritual essence of everyday life. Their remarkable staying power derives from the gentle meditative authority of Zagajewski's voice, here expertly rered into English by Clare Cavanagh. Zagajewski's committed, compassionate poems offer access to the mysteries at the heart of experience.
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1999
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1999
(These poems, lucidly translated, share the vocation that ...)
These poems, lucidly translated, share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two."
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2003
(One of the most gifted poets of our time, Adam Zagajewski...)
One of the most gifted poets of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a contemporary classic. Few writers in poetry or prose have attained the lucid intelligence and limpid economy of style that are the trademarks of his work. His wry humor, gentle skepticism, and perpetual sense of history's dark possibilities have earned him a devoted international following. This collection, gracefully translated by Clare Cavanagh, finds the poet returning to the themes that have defined his career – moving meditations on place, language, and history. Unseen Hand is a luminous meeting of art and everyday life.
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2011
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2014
(Bringing gravity and grace to his meditations on art, soc...)
Bringing gravity and grace to his meditations on art, society, and history, Zagajewski wears his erudition lightly, with a disarming blend of modesty and humor. His topics range from autobiography (his first visit to a post-Soviet Lvov after childhood exile; his illicit readings of Nietzsche in Communist Poland); to considerations of artist friends past and present (Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz); to intellectual and psychological portraits of cities he has known, east and west; to a dazzling thumbnail sketch of postwar Polish poetry.
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2014
(Slight Exaggeration is an autobiographical portrait of th...)
Slight Exaggeration is an autobiographical portrait of the poet, arranged not chronologically but with that same luminous quality that distinguishes Zagajewski’s spellbinding poetry – an affinity for the invisible.
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2017
Adam Zagajewski was born on June 21, 1945 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv in Ukraine). He is a son of Tadeusz Zagajewski and Ludwika (Turska) Zagajewska. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to the city of Gliwice.
Adam Zagajewski attended Andrzej Strug V High School. He studied psychology and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
Adam Zagajewski began as a poet in 1967 when he published his poem Music in Życie Literackie magazine. He also published his poems and reviews in such magazines as Odra and Twórczość. Later Zagajewski became involved in the New Wave literary movement also known as the Generation of '68'. After signing the Letter of 59 his works were banned by communist authorities in Poland. Adam Zagajewski published his book Ciepło, zimno in 1975. Later he wrote Słuch absolutny and Cienka kreska. He became one of the founders and first lecturers of the Scientific Training Association in 1978. In 1982 he emigrated to Paris and in 1988 became a visiting associate professor of English at the University of Houston. He held this post until 2002 when he returned to Poland. He worked as a visiting lecturer at the School of Literature and Arts at the Jagiellonian University and also taught at the University of Houston. Now, Zagajewski is a faculty member at the University of Chicago.
Adam Zagajewski is a Polish poet and writer, famous for his poems Komunikat, Ziemia ognista and Jechać do Lwowa. His literary works have received international recognition and have been translated into many languages.
Adam Zagajewski received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2004. In 2015 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize. In May 2016 he was awarded the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize and also received the Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry. Zagajewski received the Princess of Asturias Award in 2017. He also was awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
(Slight Exaggeration is an autobiographical portrait of th...)
2017(The second collection of autobiographical and literary wr...)
1995(These poems, lucidly translated, share the vocation that ...)
2003(Bringing gravity and grace to his meditations on art, soc...)
2014(The poems are about nature, history, the life of cities, ...)
1999(One of the most gifted poets of our time, Adam Zagajewski...)
2011Adam Zagajewski is a member of the Polish Writers' Association.
Quotes from others about the person
Colm Tóibín: "In his best poems he has succeeded in making the space of the imagination connect with experience; things seen and heard and remembered in all their limits and sorrow and relished joy have the same power for him as things conjured."
Eva Hoffman: "Such a quest for transcendence is essentially romantic in its impulse, but Mr. Zagajewski is a modem romantic, in whom an attraction to quietude and to interstitial, hidden spaces often coexists with mosaics of contemporary urban detail, a taste for incongruity and a sometimes ironic reflectiveness.
Adam Zagajewski married Maja Wodecka.
