Stanisław Barańczak
Stanisław Barańczak | |
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 Stanisław Barańczak with his wife Anna in 1995 | |
| Born | November 13, 1946 Poznań, Poland |
| Died | December 26, 2014 (aged 68) Newtonville, Massachusetts, US |
| Occupation | poet, literary critic, translator |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | Adam Mickiewicz University |
| Notable awards | Kościelski Award (1972) PEN Translation Prize (1996) Nike Award (1999) Silesius Poetry Award (2009) Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (2014) Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2016) |
| Spouse | Anna Bryłka |
| Children | Michael Anna |
| Relatives | Małgorzata Musierowicz (sister) |
Stanisław Barańczak (November 13, 1946, Poznań, Poland – December 26, 2014, Boston, USA) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer.[1]
He was most famous and valued for Polish translations of William Shakespeare dramas as well as numerous translations of English poetry by ee cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Wystan Hugh Auden, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Keats, Robert Frost, Edward Lear and others.
Barańczak died in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 58.
References
- ↑ Tara Merrigan (October 2, 2012). "Even When No One is Looking". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
Other websites
- Barańczak's profile at the Harvard University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures website.
Polish Literature in English Translation: Stanisław Barańczak Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine