Karolina Kusek

Karolina Kusek

Karolina Kusek (* 1940 in Ternopil ) is a Polish poet and journalist. She lives in Wrocław and writes poems, epigrams , aphorisms and lyrics.

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She graduated from the violin class at the music school, studied polonistics at the university of her hometown and the Warsaw Maria Grzegorzewska Academy for Special Education, worked for the Ossoliński publishing house in Wroclaw and then as a journalist for the daily newspapers “Słowo Polskie” and “Słowo Powszechne”.

She made her literary debut in 1970 in the children's magazine “Miś” with the poem “Husch, Rakete!”. In 1982 her first book of children's poems, "Sonnenblumennoten", was published. Kusek has written 23 volumes of poetry, mainly for and about children, including "On Earth and Above", "Field Walk", "Colors of Summer", "Your Words", "With Grandma by the Hand", "My Landscapes", “Painted with sunshine”, “Pictures from our childhood”, “Towards the sun”, “On the trail of ink”, “Following the voice of the heart”, “My gaze is immersed in the realm of the child”. She wrote one for the Wroclaw Opera House Version of ETA Hoffmann's “Nutcracker” for Tchaikovsky's ballet of the same name, as well as the play “A watering can full of tears”.

In her work, Kusek focuses on everyday life, experiences and feelings of children. Her poems have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, Italian and German. They have also been published in educational magazines, in the state and regional press, as well as in children's poetry anthologies and textbooks for schools and kindergartens.

Awards

• 2012 Maria Konopnicka Literature Prize