Marek Bieńczyk

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Marek Bieńczyk (2012)

Marek Bieńczyk (born July 6, 1956 in Milanówek ) is a Polish literary historian , prose writer , essayist and translator . As a translator, he mainly translates the works of Milan Kundera into Polish .

Life

Bieńczyk attended the Wyspiański High School in Warsaw , where he graduated from high school in 1975. In 1976 he began studying Romance languages at the University of Warsaw , which he completed in 1980 with a master's degree. He then studied Indology at the University of Warsaw, but dropped out in 1981. During his studies he belonged to the Narodowe Siły Zbrojne .

In 1980 he made his debut as a literary critic with the polemical work Święty Sartre, aktor i męczennik (Saint Sartre, actor and martyr), which he wrote with Zygmunt Kałużyński and published in the magazine Polityka . From 1983 to 1984 he worked as a French language lecturer at the University of Warsaw and from 1983 to 1996 at the French Institute. In 1983 he also began his doctoral studies at the Institute for Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences , where he was hired as an assistant in 1987. In 1988 he made his debut as a translator from French. In 1989 he received his doctorate with the work Wyobrażenia cierpienia i śmierci w twórczości Zygmunta Krasińskiego (ideas of suffering and death in the work of Zygmunt Krasiński). In 1990 he became a research assistant at the Institute for Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 1991 to 1992 he was an editorial member of the journal Literary Studies in Poland and from 1993 he was an editorial member of the French quarterly L'Atelier du Roman . In the following years he was active in teaching and as a writer. In 2003 he completed his habilitation with the font Oczy Dürera. O melancholii romantycznej (Dürer's eyes. On romantic melancholy). In 2005 he was hired as a lecturer . In 2007 he became a member of the jury for the Gdynia Literature Prize . In 2010 he became an associate professor at the Institute for Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Bieńczyk is also involved in oenology and has published several articles and non-fiction books on the subject.

He lives in Warsaw .

Publications

Essays

  • Czarny człowiek. Krasiński wobec śmierci , 1990
  • Melancholia. O tych, co nigdy nie odnajdą straty , 1998; 2nd edition 2000
  • Oczy Dürera. O melancholii romantycznej , 2002
  • Przezroczystość , 2007
  • Kasiążka twarzy , 2011
  • Jabłko Olgi, stopy Dawida , 2015

Oenology

  • Kroniki wina , 2001
  • Nowe kroniki wina , 2010

prose

  • Terminal , 1994
  • Tworki , 1999; 2nd edition 2007

Children's books

  • Nussi coś więcej , 2012
  • Książę w cukierni , 2013

Translations

Awards and nominations (selection)

Web links

  • Beata Dorosz: Marek Bieńczyk. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. Retrieved September 10, 2018 (Polish).
  • Marek Bieńczyk. In: culture.pl . Retrieved September 10, 2018 (Polish, last updated July 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Bieńczyk, Marek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish literary historian, prose writer, essayist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Milanówek