Piotr summer

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Piotr Summer (2007)

Piotr Sommer (born April 13, 1948 in Wałbrzych ) is a Polish poet , literary critic and translator .

Life

Sommer spent his early childhood with his mother in Łódź and moved to Otwock in 1953 . He attended grammar school there and graduated from high school in 1965. He then started studying English at the University of Warsaw in 1967 and obtained his master's degree in 1973 . During his studies he made his debut with the poems Różewicz and Kawafi , which were published in 1971 in the monthly Poezja . After graduating, he first worked as an English teacher in Otwock. During this time he also began his work as a translator and published translations by Brian Patten in the monthly Literatura na Świecie , for which he worked from 1976 after moving to Warsaw . In 1980 he took over the editorial office for English-language literature. Thanks to an invitation from the United States Department of State and Washington and Lee University in Lexington , Virginia, he was able to spend an extended period in the United States in 1983 . Since 1985 he has been an honorary member of The Poetry Society in England . From 1987 to 1992 he was editor of the monthly Res Publica and later Res Publica Nowa . He also spent the years 1987 to 1989, 1992, 2000 and 2002 in the USA as a visiting professor for contemporary poetry, comparative literature and creative writing at Amherst College , Wesleyan University in Middletown , Connecticut, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley , at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Notre Dame . During these years he began to translate Polish poetry into English with Michael Kasper. From 1990 to 1991 he was editor of the weekly newspaper Tygodnik Literacki and also worked as a translator and columnist for Polskie Radio . On a scholarship, he spent 1991 at the University of Warwick and 1993 at the University of Glasgow . He led seminars at Jagiellonian University in 1996 and at the Arvon Foundation in 1998 , where he led a creative writing seminar with Michael Longley in 2000 . From 2006 to 2008 he was a jury member for the Gdynia Literature Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2015 .

He lives in Sulejówek .

Publications

Poetry

  • W krześle , 1977
  • Pamiątki po nas (1973–76) , 1980
  • Przed snem , 1981
  • Kolejny świat (1976-79) , 1983
  • Czynnik liryczny (1980-82) , 1986
  • Czynnik liryczny i inne wiersze (1980–1986) , 1988
  • Things to translete and other poems , 1991
  • Artykuły pochodzenia zagranicznego , 1996
  • Nowe stosunki wyrazów (wiersze z lat siedemdziesiątych i osiemdziesiątych) , 1997
  • Piosenka pasterska , 1999
  • Rano na ziemi. Wiersze z lat 1968–1998 , 2009.
  • Dni i noce , 2009
  • Wiersze ze słów , 2009 (2nd, extended edition 2011)
  • Fruwajka , 2015

Essays

  • Smak detalu i inne ogólniki , 1995
  • Po stykach , 2005

Translations

Nominations and Awards

Web links

  • Paweł Kozioł: Piotr summer. In: culture.pl . March 2011, accessed October 19, 2018 (Polish).
  • Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany: Piotr Sommer. In: Polska Poezja Współczesna. Przewodnik encyklopedyczny. Retrieved October 6, 2018 (Polish).
  • Barbara Marzęcka: Piotr Sommer . In: Współcześni polscy pisarze i badacze literatury . Tom siódmy: R – Sta. Wydawnictwo Szkolne i Pedagogiczne Spółka Akcyjna, Warsaw 2001, ISBN 83-02-08100-0 , p. 391-393 .
  • Barbara Marzęcka: Piotr Sommer . In: Współcześni polscy pisarze i badacze literatury . Tom dziesiąty: Ż i uzupełnienia do tomów 1–9. Fundacja Akademia Humanistyczna, Warsaw 2007, ISBN 978-83-8934894-4 , p. 747-148 .
  • Piotr summer. In: Lyrikline.org . Retrieved October 19, 2018 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Piotr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish poet, literary critic and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Wałbrzych