1. Adam Zagajewski was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist.
15 Facts About Adam Zagajewski
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Adam Zagajewski 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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Adam Zagajewski was considered a leading poet of the Generation of '68, or Polish New Wave, and one of Poland's most prominent contemporary poets.
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Adam Zagajewski's father was Tadeusz Zagajewski and his mother was Ludwika Zagajewska, nee Turska.
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The Zagajewski family was expelled from Lwow to central Poland the same year as part of Soviet post-World War II policy.
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Adam Zagajewski later taught philosophy at the AGH University of Science and Technology.
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Adam Zagajewski published his works as well as reviews in such magazines as Odra and Tworczosc.
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Adam Zagajewski was a member of the Polish Writers' Association.
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Adam Zagajewski used to teach poetry workshops as a visiting lecturer at the School of Literature and Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow as well as a creative writing course at the University of Houston in the United States.
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Adam Zagajewski was a faculty member at the University of Chicago and a member of its Committee on Social Thought.
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Adam Zagajewski taught two classes, one of which is on fellow Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz.
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Adam Zagajewski died on 21 March 2021 at the age of 75 in Krakow.
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Adam Zagajewski was awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit, and twice received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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Adam Zagajewski won the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, considered a forerunner to the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is the second Polish writer to be awarded, after Czeslaw Milosz.
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In 2019, Adam Zagajewski was awarded Pour le Merite for Sciences and Arts.