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Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, and the 2018 Golden Wreath of Poetry at the Struga Poetry Evenings.
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Learn about the life and poetry of Adam Zagajewski, a Polish poet who wrote in Polish and English and won many international awards. Explore his themes of history, time, silence, and death in his collections such as Tremor, Mysticism for Beginners, and Asymmetry.
Apr 4, 2021 · The poet Adam Zagajewski, who has died aged 75, was one of the leading voices of Poland’s Nowa Fala (new wave), also known as the Generation of ’68 – a loose group of poets who opposed the ...
Mar 24, 2021 · Adam Zagajewski, a prizewinning Polish poet and a former dissident in exile whose life and verse reverberated with laments over displacement and reminders that the past perseveres, died on March...
May 2, 2024 · Adam Zagajewski (born June 21, 1945, Lwów, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]—died March 21, 2021, Kraków) was a Polish poet, novelist, and essayist whose works were grounded in the turbulent history of his homeland and concerned with the quandary of the modern intellectual.
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Feb 21, 2023 · The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski’s great poem “To Go to Lvov” has a special importance for many young poets in different languages. That poem weaves the historical and the personal, the rhythms of...
Mar 22, 2021 · Published 9:55 AM PDT, March 22, 2021. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Adam Zagajewski, the celebrated Polish poet whose melancholy reflections on the erosion of the world came to express an unfathomable moment of shock and loss after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., has died in Krakow. He was 75.
