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A poet, translator, literary critic, essayist, scholar, editor and lecturer born in Poznań in 1946. He studied Polish at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he became a lecturer and earned his Ph.D. He broke into print as a poet and critic in 1965. Barańczak was on the staff of the Poznań magazine "Nurt" from 1967-1971. After the political events of June, 1976, he became a co-founder of the Committee for the Defense of the Workers and of the clandestine quarterly "Zapis". He has lectured on Polish literature at Harvard since 1981 and is editor of "The Polish Review". He was a co-founder of the Paris "Zeszyty Literackie" in 1983, and is a regular contributor to the periodical "Teksty Drugie". He is a leading poet in the "New Wave" and one of the outstanding Polish writers to begin his career in the communist period, combining literary work with scholarship and politics. He is the most prominent translator in recent years of English poetry into Polish and of Polish poetry into English. His Polish is permeated with the language of the poets he feels closest to - Emily Dickinson, John Donne and Robert Frost - and whose work he has made popular in Poland. The original poetry of Stanisław Barańczak is clearly dominated by three concerns: the ethical, the political, and the literary. His language is extraordinarily supple. His choice of subjects testifies to his community engagement; his language is always amazingly fluent. It may seem paradoxical that Barańczak began as a poetic critic of language and the social order but has achieved his greatest success as a late-twentieth-century Parnassist, a virtuoso of poetic form. His most recent book, "Chirurgiczna precyzja / Surgical Precision", won the 1999 Nike prize. Selected Bibliography Poetry:
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![]() On February 10, 2010 in Rome's Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Krystian Zimerman will give a Chopin piano recital marking the Chopin Year celebrations in Italy. The 46th Wrocław Jazz Festival "Jazz nad Odrą" will start on February 28. The festival will last until March 6, 2010. For more info see www.jnofestival.pl. The 7th edition of "Misteria Paschalia" in Kraków will take place on March 29 - April 5, 2010. Documentary films by Paweł Łoziński on DVD now. Films have been issued by National Visual Institute (NInA) as part of the "Polish School of Documentary" series. In honor of the Chopin Anniversary Year, 1st Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, Connecticut, will be held from February 20-21, 2010. Tchaikovski Gala with Grzegorz Nowak as conductor - London, Cadogan Hall, February 18, 2010. Krystian Zimerman at Chopin Birthday Concert 1 - London, Royal Festival Hall - Southbank Centre, February 22, 2010. The 8th Kinoteka Polish Film Festiwal in London opens on March 4 and will last untill April 12, 2010.
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