Marcin Świetlicki

Marcin Świetlicki

Marcin Adam Świetlicki (born December 24, 1961 in Lublin , Poland ) is a Polish poet , writer and head of the rock group Świetliki ( Fireflies ). He has received several literary prizes for his literary work, including the renowned Kościelski Prize .

Life

Świetlicki grew up in Piaski and attended high school in Lublin . As a schoolboy, he sent a poem and a short story to the weekly Na przełaj , which were printed in later anthologies. After graduating from high school in 1980, he began studying Polish at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow . After his de-registration in December 1981, he successfully passed the entrance examination again in 1982. During his studies he worked for the student radio and in 1984 published poetry in the independent magazine NaGłos . He was then de-registered again and was called up for military service in Słupsk until 1986 . He then worked for a few months as an educator in a boarding school in Lublin until he moved to Krakow in 1987. There he initially worked as a night watchman and from 1988 to 1990 as a messenger and employee of the Secretariat of Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych. After the system change in Poland, he was hired in 1991 as a proofreader and text editor in the newspaper Tygodnik Powszechny , for which he worked until 2004 and in which he published poems and reviews. He was also associated with the magazine brulion , where he published the poem Wiersz współny (półfinałowy) , written together with Marcin Baran and Marcin Sendecki in 1993, which is considered a manifesto for the poets around this magazine. In addition, he published his poems in NaGłos , Dekada Literacka , Lampa i Iskra Boża and Odra . In 1991, he spent some time in Paris on a scholarship . Back in Poland he founded the rock group Świetliki with members of the Krakow band Trupa Wertera Utrata in 1992 , for which he wrote lyrics and performed as a singer. He also directed music programs on the radio, first on Radio Mariackie , then on Radio Kraków and Radiostacja . In 1994 he was awarded the Paszport Polityki for his poetry, but did not accept the award. In 1995 he spent a short time in Berlin as part of the scholarship from the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin . In 1996 he was honored with the Kościelski Prize for his lyrical oeuvre . In the following years he appeared occasionally as an actor, for example in the leading role in the 1998 televised play Małżowina by Wojciech Smarzowski and in 2002 in the feature film Anioł w Krakowie by Artur Więcek . With Grzegorz Dyduch , he moderated the cultural magazine Pegaz from 2000 to 2002 and conducted interviews for the magazines Przekrój , Gazeta Wyborcza and Wysokie Obcasy . In addition, in 2003 he co-founded the Stowarzyszenie Miłośników Kryminału i Sensacji "Trup w szafie" and was a juror for the Wielki Kaliber Prize , which has been awarded since 2004. He made his debut as a crime story writer in 2005. He returned to Radio Kraków with music programs from 2006 to 2007 and in 2009 went to Roxy FM . He was then a member of the editorial board of the spoken magazine Gadający pies from 2010 to 2015 . Together with Dariusz Dudziński and Michał Wandzilak, he founded the music group Najprzyjemniejsi in 2015 , which also performed with Julia Kamińska as Julia i Nieprzyjemni .

He lives in Krakow.

Works

poetry

• Zimne kraje. Wiersze 1980-1990, 1992; 9th edition 1999
• Schizma, 1994
• Zimne kraje 2, 1995
• Berlin, 1995
• 37 wierszy o wódce i papierosach, 1996
• Trzecia połowa, 1996; 2nd edition 2005
• 20 niezapomnianych przebojów i 10 kultowych fotografii, 1996
• Zimne kraje 3, 1997
• Stare chłopy prowadzą rowery na techno, 1998
• Pieśni profana, 1998
• Czynny do odwołania, 2001
• Wiersze wyprane, 2002
• Nieczynny 2003
• Wiersze wyprane 2003
• 49 wierszy o wódce i papierosach, 2004
• Muzyka środka 2006
• Nieoczywiste. 77 wierszy religijnych, 2007
• Niskie pobudki, 2009
• Wiersze, 2011
• Marcin Świetlicki. Antologia, 2012
• Everyone, 2013
• Delta Dietla, 2015
• Zło, te przeboje. (Piosenki 1992–2015), 2015 (collection of lyrics)
• Drobna zmiana, 2016
• Polska. (Wiązanka pieśni patriotycznych), 2018

prose

• Katecheci i frustraci 2001 (as Marianna G. Świeduchowska with Grzegorz Dyduch)
• Kotek, in an anthology Trupy Polskie 2005
• Dwanaście, 2006 (twelve)
• Trzynaście, 2007 (thirteen)
• Jedenaście, 2008 (eleven)
• Orchidea, 2009 (with G. Grzegorzewska)
• Powieści, 2011
• Nieprzysiadalność. Autobiografia, 2017

Plates with the Świetliki group

• Ogród koncentracyjny 1995
• Cacy cacy meat machine 1996
• Cacy cacy love mix EP 1996
• Perły EP 1999
• Wieprze EP 1999
• Perły przed wieprze 1999
• Złe misie 2001
• Las Putas Melancólicas 2005
• Las Putas Melancólicas y Exclusivas 2005
• Sromota 2013

Nominations and Awards (selection)

• 1994: Paszport Polityki in the literature category
• 1996: Kościelski Prize
• 1999: Nomination for the Nike Literature Prize with Pieśni profana
• 2002: Finalist of the Nike Literature Prize with Czynny do odwołania
• 2007: Finalist of the Gdynia Literature Prize with Muzyka środka
• 2007: Finalist of the Nike Literature Prize with Muzyka środka
• 2009: Gdynia Literature Prize in the Prose für Jedenaście category
• 2012: Wroclaw Poetry Prize Silesius for the complete works
• 2014: Gdynia Literature Prize in the Poetry for Everyone category
• 2014: Finalist of the Nike Literature Prize with Everyone
• 2016: Nomination for the Wisława Szymborska Prize with Delta Dietla

Web links

• Barbara Tyszkiewicz: Marcin Świetlicki. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. July 19, 2019, accessed August 18, 2019 (Polish). 
• Wiktoria Klera: Marcin Świetlicki. In: Polska Poezja Współczesna. Przewodnik Encyklopedyczny. Retrieved July 19, 2019 (Polish). 
• Paweł Kozioł: Marcin Świetlicki. In: culture.pl . December 2011, accessed on August 18, 2019 (Polish, last updated July 2016).