Piotr Paziński

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Piotr Paziński (2010)

Piotr Paziński (born July 9, 1973 ) is a Polish writer.

Life

Piotr Paziński grew up in Warsaw and studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw . He worked for the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper and is editor of the monthly magazine Midrasz . in 2005 he received his doctorate from Michał Głowiński with a thesis on James Joyce's Ulysses at the Institute for Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences . Paziński published John Felstiner's biography about Paul Celan in Polish in 2010 .

In 2009 Paziński was nominated for the Polish Nike Literature Prize for his first novel The Pension and received the Paszport Polityki Prize . Paziński took part in the Berlin International Literature Festival in 2011 and received the European Union Literature Prize in 2012 .

Works (selection)

  • Labirynt i drzewo. Studia nad Ulissesem Jamesa Joyce'a . Kraków: Austeria, 2005
  • with Jacek Marczewski (photographer): Dublin z Ulissesem: wraz ze słownikiem bohaterów Ulissesa . Warszawa: Czuły Barbarzyńca, cop, 2008.
  • Pensionat . Warszawa: Wydawn. Nisza, 2009.
    • The pension . From the polish. by Benjamin Voelkel. Berlin: Ed. FotoTAPETA, 2014
  • Ptasie ulice . Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Nisza, 2013

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