Jacek Dehnel
Jacek Dehnel (born May 1, 1980 in Danzig ) is a Polish writer , translator and painter .
Life
Jacek Dehnel attended the Stefan Żeromski -Gymnasium in Oliva and then studied Polish language and literature in Warsaw . Since then, Dehnel has worked in Warsaw as a poet, prose writer, translator and painter. He became internationally known in 2006 with his novel Lala .
In 2005 Dehnel received the Kościelski Prize and in 2007 the Paszport Polityki from the Polish weekly Polityka . In 2010 his collection of poems Ekran kontrolny ( control screen ) was nominated for the most important literary award in Poland, the Nike Literature Prize.
Renate Schmidgall has translated works by Dehnel into German.
Works
Poetry
- Żywoty równoległe . 2004
- Wyprawa na południe . 2005
- Wiersze . 2006
- Brzytwa okamgnienia . 2007
- Ekran kontrolny . 2009
- Rubryki strat i zysków . 2011
- Języki obce . 2013 (nominated for the Wisława Szymborska Prize 2014)
prose
- Kolekcja , 1999
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Lala , 2006
- German: Lala. Translated from the Polish by Renate Schmidgall . Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-24677-7
- English: Lala. Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Oneworld Publications, London 2018, ISBN 978-1786073570
- Rynek w Smyrnie , 2007
- Balzakiana , 2008
- Fotoplastikon , 2009
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Saturn. Czarne obrazy z życia mężczyzn z rodziny Goya , 2011
- German: Saturn. Black pictures of the Goya family. Translated from the Polish by Renate Schmidgall. Hanser-Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24328-6
- Kosmografia, czyli trzydzieści apokryfów tułaczych , 2012
- Młodszy księgowy. O książkach, czytaniu i pisaniu , 2013
Translations into Polish
- Philip Larkin : Zebrane , 2008
- Kārlis Vērdiņš : Niosłem ci kanapeczkę , 2009
- Edmund White : Hotel de Dream , 2012 (with Piotr Tarczyński)
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald : Wielki Gatsby , 2013
Scripts
- Loving Vincent , 2017
Web links
- Short biography and reviews of works by Jacek Dehnel at perlentaucher.de
- Short biography and reviews of works by Jacek Dehnel at culture.pl (English)
- Literature by and about Jacek Dehnel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jacek Dehnel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Info sheet on Lala (PDF, 44.8 KB) at rowohlt.de.
- ↑ About the book at oneworld-publications.com.
- ↑ About the book at hanser-literaturverlage.de.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dehnel, Jacek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer, translator and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |