Jerzy Jarniewicz

Born in Łowicz in 1958, he is a graduate of the Bolesław Prus High School No. 21 in Łódź.[2] He studied English language and literature as well as philosophy at the University of Łódź[3] and between 1984 and 1985 at the University of Oxford.[4] He is an editor of the literary monthly Literatura na Świecie[5] and published literary criticism articles in Tygodnik Powszechny and Gazeta Wyborcza[6] as well as collaborated with such British literary magazines as Poetry Review and Areté. He has taught English literature at the University of Łódź and the University of Warsaw. He also lectured at such institutions as the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield, York, Belfast, Dublin, Charles University in Prague, Magdeburg and Harvard.[7]

In 2011, he became a member of the Council of the National Culture Center (Polish: Narodowe Centrum Kultury). He is a former member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and served as a jury member of the Gdynia Literary Prize. He is also a member of the Association of Translators of Literature and Collegium Invisibile.[8] His main areas of interest include contemporary English and Irish poetry, literary translation, and the history of the Counterculture of the 1960s.[9] He translated the works of such English-language writers as James Joyce, Philip Roth, John Banville, Ursula Le Guin and Craig Raine.

In 2006, he was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit and Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. In 2008, he received a nomination to the Nike Award for his work Znaki firmowe. In 2018, he won the Silesius Poetry Award in the Book of the Year category for Puste noce (Empty Nights).[10] In 2022, he received the most prestigious Polish literary distinction, the Nike Award, for his collection of poetry entitled Mondo Cane.[11] The same year, he was also nominated to the Wisława Szymborska Award.

• Polish Literature
• Angelus Award
• List of Polish poets