Tomasz Różycki

Tomasz Różycki (born May 29, 1970 in Opole ) is a Polish poet and translator .

Life

Różycki attended high school in Opole. After graduating from high school in 1989, he studied Romance languages at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow . During his studies he made his debut with the poem Je vois la suite, już po tamtej stronie… , which was published in the magazine Czas Kultury . After completing his studies, he taught French literature and language at the Foreign Language Teachers College in Opole until 2006 and then at the University of Opole . He also started working as a columnist for Teatr magazine in 2007 . In 2008 he was a member of the jury for the Kościelski Prize . In 2009 he was a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center in the USA . In 2010 he started working as a commentator on the radio show Między słowami on Polskie Radio 2 . In 2011 he led a creative writing workshop at the University of Opole.

He lives in Opole.

Publications

• Fatherland , 1997
• Anima , 1999
• Chata umaita , 2001
• Świat i Antyświat , 2003
• Dwanaście stacji , 2004
  • Twelve stations , translated by Olaf Kühl . Munich: Luchterhand, 2009
• Wiersze , 2004
• Trois poètes polonais: Maciej Niemiec, Jacek Podsiadło, Tomasz Różycki , 2005
• Colony , 2006
• Antimondo , 2009
• Księga obrotów , 2010
• Black sware. Selected poems , 2011
• Bestiary , 2012
  • Bestiary , translated by Marlena Breuer . Berlin: edition.fotoTAPETA, 2016
• Tomi. Notatki z miejsca postoju , 2013
• Litery , 2016

Translations

• Stéphane Mallarmé : Rzut kośćmi nigdy nie zniesie przypadku , 2005
• Jacques Burko : Wątpewności. Wybór wierszy , 2011

Nominations and Awards

• 2004: Kościelski Prize
• 2007: Finalist of the Nike Literature Prize with Colony
• 2007: Nomination for the Gdynia Literature Prize in the Poetry for Colony category
• 2011: Nomination for the Gdynia Literature Prize in the Poetry category for Księga obrotów
• 2017: Nomination for the Wisława Szymborska Prize for Litery

Web links

• Literature by and about Tomasz Różycki in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Tomasz Różycki in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Tomasz Różycki: Poems. In: lyrikline.org. Retrieved October 9, 2018 (Polish). 
• Alicja Szałagan: Tomasz Różycki. In: Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku. Retrieved October 9, 2018 (Polish). 
• Paweł Kozioł: Krzysztof Varga. In: culture.pl . March 2011, accessed October 3, 2018 (Polish, last updated September 2016). 
• Tomasz Różycki. In: Goethe Institute. Poland. April 2014, accessed October 9, 2018 .