Tomasz Różycki

Tomasz Różycki (born 1970) is a Polish poet and translator. He studied Romance Languages at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and taught French at the Foreign Languages Teaching College in Opole. In addition to his teaching, he translated and published Stéphane Mallarmé's "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" in 2005, and continues to translate from French for publication.

Tomasz Różycki
Born29 May 1970 Edit this on Wikidata (age 53)
OccupationPoet, romanist Edit this on Wikidata
Awards

He has published six books of poetry: Vaterland (1997), Anima (1999), Chata uimaita (Country Cottage, 2001), Świat i Antyświat (World and Antiworld, 2003), the book-length poem Dwanaście stacji (Twelve Stations, 2004), Kolonie (Colonies, 2006) and The Forgotten Keys (2007). His work has appeared in literary journals such as Czas Kultury, Odra, Studium and PEN America,[1] and in German, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and German poetry anthologies.

Awards and recognition

Tomasz Różycki gained critical acclaim for "Twelve Stations." In 2004, the book-length poem won the prestigious Kościelski Foundation Prize and was named best Book of the Spring 2004 by the Raczyński Library in Poznań. He has received the Krzysztof Kamiel Baczyński Prize (1997), the Czas Kultury Prize (1997), The Rainer Maria Rilke Award (1998), and the Joseph Brodskie Prize from Zeszyty Literackie (2006). He has been nominated twice for the NIKE Prize (2005 and 2007), and once for the Paszport Polityki (2004). Poland's top literary award.[2]

"Colonies," Mira Rosenthal's 2013 translation into English of Kolonie (published by Zephyr Press), was shortlisted for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2014 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (UK),[3] and won the 2014 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation.[4] It was long-listed for the 2014 PEN Poetry in Translation Award.[5]

Bibliography

Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Original poetry
  • 1997: Vaterland, Łódź: Stowarzyszenie Literackie im. K.K. Baczyńskiego[6]
  • 1999: Anima, Zielona Sowa, Kraków[6]
  • 2001: Chata uimaita ("Country Cottage"), Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża[6]
  • 2003: Świat i Antyświat ("World and Antiworld"), Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża[6]
  • 2004: Dwanaście stacji ("Twelve Stations"), a book-length poem, awarded the 2004 Kościelski Prize; Kraków: Znak[6]
  • 2004: Wiersze, containing all the poems from Różycki's first four poetry books, Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża[6]
  • 2006: Kolonie ("Colonies"), 77 poems, 86 pp, Kraków: Znak, ISBN 83-240-0697-4[7]
  • 2007: The Forgotten Keys[6]
Translation

References
  1. "Tomasz Rozycki: Scorched Maps". Archived from the original on 2009-04-17. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
  2. "Arc Publications - Tomasz R?życki". www.arcpublications.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  3. "St Anne's College, Oxford > About the College > Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize – 2014 shortlist announced". www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-05-18.
  4. "Poetry Flash > programs".
  5. "Longlists Announced for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards". 5 May 2014.
  6. Web page titled "Tomasz Różycki" Archived 2013-04-16 at archive.today, at Culture.pl website, retrieved March 1, 2010
  7. Web page titled "Tomasz Różycki, 'Kolonie'/'Colonies'", at Culture.pl website, retrieved March 1, 2010
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