Jakub Ekier

Jakub Ekier (* 1961 in Warsaw ) is a Polish poet and translator.

Life

Ekier grew up in a Warsaw family of artists. After completing his German studies at the University of Warsaw in 1986 , Jakub Ekier initially worked as a lecturer. Scholarships and prizes have taken him repeatedly to Austria and Germany. a. He was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Robert Bosch Foundation , the Hubert Burda Foundation and in 2003 at the Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta . Since 1994 he has been working with the magazine for international literature Literatura na Świecie . Ekier has been a freelance writer and translator since 2001 and his poetry has been influenced by Paul Celan and Ryszard Krynicki . In 2013 he was appointed a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts . Ekier lives and works in Warsaw.

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Poetry Awards:

2001 Hubert Burda Prize for Young Eastern European Poetry (with Krzysztof Koehler , Mariusz Grzebalski and Marzanna Kielar )
2001 Barbara Sadowska Prize
2002 Four Pillar Prize

Translator prices:

2008 award from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Sport
2011 Prize of the Literatura na Świecie magazine ( world literature )
2013 Karl Dedecius Prize of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the German Poland Institute (with Bernhard Hartmann)

Translations

Ekier is translator of the works u. a. by Ilse Aichinger, Bertolt Brecht, Paul Celan, Durs Grünbein, Franz Kafka, Daniel Kehlmann, Reiner Kunze, Max Frisch, Thomas Rosenlöcher and Ferdinand von Schirach.

Helmut Böttiger: Paul Celan. Miasta i miejsca . ( East Time - West Time. Places Paul Celans ) 2002.
Daniel Kehlmann: Rachuba świata . ( Measuring the World ) 2007.
Reiner Kunze: remont poranka . ( The Repair of the Morning. Selected Poems and Prose ) 2008.
Franz Kafka: Proces . ( The Trial ) 2008.
Durs Grünbein Wulkan i wiersz ( volcano and poem. Selected essays ) 2011.
Max Frisch: Dziennik 1946-1949 . ( 1946-1949 Diaries ) 2014.

Publications and a.

Ekier's poems have been translated into German, English, French, Czech and Ukrainian.

Cały czas. Wiersze 1986-91 . ( All the time , poems) Brulion Kraków-Warszawa 1992.
podczas ciebie ( During yours , poems). Wydawnictwo a5 Kraków 1999.

krajobraz ze wszystkimi ( landscape with everyone , poems). Poznań 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME	Ekier, Jakub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw