The distinguished Polish poet Adam Zagajewski on his lifelong ties to the poetry of Czesław Miłosz, the process of selecting his poetry for the German publishers and his views on German translations of the Nobel laureate's works

 

Adam Zagajewski was born on the 21st of June, 1945 in Lviv as the son of Professor Tadeusz Zagajewski - a pioneer of Polish electronics (1912-2010). Shortly after his birth, the Zagajewski family was repatriated to Poland within the borders set at the Yalta conference. Zagajewski spent his childhood years in Gliwice, in the Silesia region, and university years in Kraków. He studied psychology and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University, later teaching philosophy courses as a university assistant. He also worked as an editor for the Student and Odra periodicals. Zagajewski soon made a name for himself as a poet of the Generation '68, referred to as the Kraków New Wave.

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Adam Zagajewski

Czesław Miłosz

Source: Adam Mickiewicz Institute