Edward Możejko

Edward Możejko (* 1932 ) is a Polish literary scholar.

Możejko emigrated to Canada in 1968. Until 1998 he was Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Alberta . He also taught at the University of Aarhus , the University of Hokkaido in Sapporo and the University Jagiellonian . The specialty of Możejko is the Slavic literature of the 20th century. His book Socialist Realism: Theory, Development and Failure of a Literary Method , which appeared in German in 1977, is considered to be the first major Western monograph on the subject of Socialist Realism . From 1991 to 2002 he was the editor of the quarterly Canadian Slavonic Papers .

In total, Możejko published around 250 studies and monographs on, among others, Vasily Pawlowitsch Aksjonow , Czesław Miłosz and Tadeusz Konwicki, as well as the Bulgarian writers Jordan Jowkow and Iwan Wasow . The St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia awarded him an honorary doctorate. Paul Duncan Morris edited the collection A World of Slavic Literatures: Essays in Comparative Slavic Studies , dedicated to him .

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• University of Alberta - Professor Emeritus Dr. Edward Mozejko
• Bulgarian Communism - Bibliography: Едвард Можейко: "Социалистическият реализъм. Теория, развитие, упадък"