Ewa Lipska

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Ewa Lipska

Ewa Lipska (born October 8, 1945 in Krakow ) is a Polish poet and writer . Since 1967 she has published several volumes of poetry and a novel .

biography

Ewa Lipska made her debut with first poems in 1961 in Gazeta Krakowska . After graduating from high school in 1963, she studied painting and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in her hometown of Krakow . From 1964 her poetic contributions appeared in the magazines Życie Literackie and Dziennik Polski . Her first volume of poetry was published in 1967.

She was a member of the Association of Polish Writers (Związek Literatów Polskich, ZLP) from 1968 until its dissolution in 1983. From 1970 to 1980 she worked as a poetry editor for the publishing house "Wydawnictwo Literackie" ("Literature Publishing House") in Cracow. At the turn of 1975/76 she accepted a six-month scholarship from the International Writing Program at the invitation of the University of Iowa . In 1978 she became a member of the Polish PEN Club .

She was co-founder of the literary magazine Pismo ("Schrift") and a member of the editorial team from 1981 to 1983. 1983/84 she spent a year in West Berlin on a DAAD scholarship .

From 1990 to 1992 she was a member of the editorial team of Arka and Dekada Literacka (“The Ark” and “Literature Decade ”), Krakow. In 1991 she became deputy director and then director of the Polish Cultural Institute in Vienna , where she stayed until 1997. She has been working as a freelance writer since 1997 . She is a member of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności (PAU). Ewa Lipska lives and works in Krakow, Poland.

Awards

  • 1997 - A. Bursa Prize, Cracow
  • 1973 - Koscielski Prize, Geneva
  • 1979 - Robert Graves Prize from the PEN Club
  • 1990 - Polcul Foundation Prize (Independent Foundation for the Promotion of Polish Culture Award)
  • 1991 - Prize of the PEN Club for the complete literary works, Prize of the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation, New York
  • 1995 - Krakow City Prize
  • 2004 - “Odra” Prize, Wroclaw
  • 2007 - Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize

Festivals

Ewa Lipska has taken part in various poetry events, seminars, readings and author meetings in Germany, Austria, England, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and the USA.

Publications

Ewa Lipska
  • Poems ( Wiersze ) - 1967 (Czytelnik Verlag, Warsaw )
  • The second volume of poetry ( Drugi zbiór wierszy ) - 1970 (Czytelnik Verlag)
  • The Third Volume of Poems ( Trzeci zbiór wierszy ) - 1972 (Czytelnik Verlag)
  • The fourth volume of poems ( Czwarty zbiór wierszy ) - 1974 (Czytelnik Verlag)
  • The Fifth Volume of Poems ( Piąty zbiór wierszy ) - 1978 (Czytelnik Verlag)
  • The House of Quiet Youth ( Dom spokojnej młodości ) - 1978 (Wydawnictwo Literackie Verlag, Cracow)
  • Living Death ( Żywa śmierć ) - 1979 (WL Verlag)
  • Selected Poems ( Poezje wybrane ) - 1981 (Ludowa Spoldzielnia Wydawniczwa, Warsaw)
  • This is not about death, but about white cordonet silk ( Nie o śmierć tutaj chodzi, lecz o biały kordonek ) - 1982 (WL Verlag)
  • Depot of Darkness ( Przechowalnia ciemności ) - 1985 (Przedswit Verlag)
  • Selected Works ( Utwory wybrane ) - 1986 (WL Verlag)
  • Women's Quartet ( Kwartet Żeński ) - 1987 (Poznan Publishing House)
  • Short- term parking zone ( Strefa ograniczonego postoju ) - 1990 (Czytelnik Verlag)
  • Vacation of a Misanthrope ( Wakacje mizantropa ) - 1993 (WL Verlag)
  • Scholarship holders of the time ( Stypendyści czasu ) - 1994 (Wroclaw Publishing House)
  • Poems (paperback edition) ( Wiersze ) - 1994 (Anagram Verlag)
  • Partner of the green wind turbine ( Wspólnicyzielonego wiatraczka ) - 1996 (WL Verlag)
  • People for Beginners ( Ludzie dla początkujących ) - 1997 (A-5 Publishing House, Cracow)
  • Substitute Life ( Życie zastępcze ) - 1998 (WL Verlag, Krakow)
  • 1999 ( 1999 ) - 1999 (WL Verlag, Krakow)
  • Zoological shops ( Sklepy zoologiczne ) - 2001 (WL Verlag, Krakow)
  • Be careful step ( Uwaga, stopień ) - 2002 (WL Verlag, Krakow)
  • Me ( Yes ) - 2003 (WL Verlag, Krakow)
  • Poems to songs. Hearts on bicycles ( Wiersze do piosenek. Serca na rowerach ) - 2004 (WL Verlag, Cracow)
  • Somewhere Else ( Gdzie indziej ) - 2005

Translations

Ewa Lipska
  • Versei - Europa Könyvkiado Verlag, Budapest 1979, Hungary
  • Vernisaz - Ceskoslovensky Spisovatel, Prague 1979, Czechoslovakia
  • Such Times - Hounslow Press, Toronto 1981, Canada
  • Huis voor een vredige jeugd - Nederlandse Vertaling, 1982, Holland
  • On the roofs of the mausoleums - Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin 1983, Germany
  • En misantrops ferie - Husets Forlag, Århus 1990, Denmark
  • My time. My body, my life. - Residenz Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna 1990, Austria
  • Poet? Criminal? Madman? - Forest Books, London 1991, England
  • A misanthrope's vacation - Bulgaria 1994
  • Zon - Elleströms Forlag, Stockholm 1997, Sweden
  • Schipiendisti Wriemiena - Beograd 1998, Serbia
  • Mennesker for Begyndere - Husets Forlag, Århus 1999, Denmark
  • Msohu me vdekjen - Springa Verlag, Albania 2000
  • Mensen voor Beginners - De Geus Verlag, Holland 2000
  • Sedemnast cervenych vevericiek - Drewo a srd Verlag, Slovakia 2001
  • Selection of poems - Keshev Publishing House, Israel 2001
  • Pet Shops - ARC Publications, England 2002
  • Attention level - Droschl-Verlag, Graz 2004, Austria
  • Yes - Beograd 2004, Serbia
  • Eixida d'emergència - Pagès editors, Lleida 2004, Catalonia

A selection of her poems has appeared in German, English, Danish, Dutch, Czech, Hungarian, Hebrew, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Catalan, French, Swedish, Albanian and Bulgarian.

swell

  • E. Lipska, Stypendyści Czasu, redakcja Jan Stolarczyk, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 1994
  • Who is Ewa Lipska, Kim jest Ewa Lipska? (Gazeta Wyborcza)
  • E. Lipska, poet? Criminal? Madman ?, Forest Books, 1991
  • E. Lipska, My Time. My body. Mein Leben, Residenz Verlag, 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Lipska, Ewa in the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
personal data
SURNAME Lipska, Ewa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish poet and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow