Piotr Szewc

Piotr Szewc (born August 27, 1961 in Zamość ) is a Polish poet , prose writer , essayist and literary critic .

Life

Szewc attended the agricultural vocational school from 1976 to 1977 and then the agricultural technical school. He made his debut as a literary critic in 1978 with the polemical article Nie tak z Białoszewskim , which was published in the magazine Kamena . In 1979 he published his first poem Wiersz na moją śmierć in this magazine . After graduating from high school in 1981, he studied Polish at the Catholic University of Lublin , where he obtained his master's degree in 1986 . After completing his studies, he worked as an editor for the newspaper Za i przeciw until 1989 , for Życie Warszawy from 1991 to 1992 , and in 1995 for Słowo. Dziennik Katolicki and in 1996 for Nowe Książki . He also published in Twórczość, Rzeczpospolita and Kwartalnik Artystyczny

He lives in Warsaw.

Publications

Poetry

• Świadectwo , 1983
• Całkiem prywatnie , 2006
• Moje zdanie , 2009
• Cienka szyba , 2014
• Światełko , 2017

Novels

• Zagłada , 1987 (2nd revised edition 1993)
  • Destruction. Novel , translated by Esther Kinsky , 1993
  • The book one day. Zamość, July 1934. Novel , translated by Esther Kinsky , 2011
• Zmierzchy i poranki , 2000
• Bociany nad powiatem , 2005

Essays and conversations

• Ocalony na Wschodzie. Z Julianem Stryjkowskim rozmawia Piotr Szewc , 1991
• Syn kapłana , 2001
• Wolność i współczucie. Rozmowy z pisarzami , 2002

Nominations

• 2001: Finalist of the Nike Literature Prize with Zmierzchy i poranki

Web links

• Marlena Sęczek: Piotr Szewc. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. Retrieved October 6, 2018 (Polish).