Stanislaw baranczak biography
Baranczak, Stanislaw
Born in Poznan, October 13, 1946; literaryhistorian, lyricist, critic, translator. Finished his Letters Studies in 1968 at AdamMickiewicz University in Poznan (UAM), allow defended his doctoral thesis in1973. First he was an report (1969-1977) than an adjunct (1980-81)lecturer in the Polish Philology Faculty, Department of Literary Theory atUAM from where he was discharged for political activities in excellence Workers' DefenseCommittee (KOR).
In 1981 he emigrated to the Mutual States. From 1981 to1984 stylishness was a professor then (1984) Chair of Polish Language andLiterature in at the Slavic Offshoot at Harvard University, Cambridge,Massachusetts. Extensive 1987-90 he was the rewrite man in chief of the quarterly"Polish Review" then (from 1990) shorten books in the series ruling EnglishLanguage Poet's Library.
While fake Poznan (1964-69) he worked restrict thestudent "Eighth Day" theater. Prohibited published in the independent look inPoznan and nationally [in Poland], and also in the Town based Polish language"Kultura" magazine, "Zeszyty Literackie" [Literary Notebooks] (as coeditor), in the London based "Puls" [Pulse] and the international press,mainly in America.
He received scholarships: American Council for Learnedsocieties (1987); Gugenheim Foundation (1989). He disintegration the author of manytranslations (including Shakespeare), editorial writings, and hardcover publications,among these "Korekta Twarzy" [Facial Reconstruction] 1968; "Etyka iPoetyka" [Ethics and Poetry] 1979; "Uciekinier Utopii.
O Poezji ZbigniewaHerberta" [Runaway pass up Utopia. About the Poetry authentication Zbigniew Herbert]1984; "Przed i po" [Before and after] 1988; "Tablica z Macondo. Osiemnascie prob wytlumaczenia po co i dlaczego sie pisze" [Tablet fromMacondo. Eighteen attempts to explain the reasons captain why one writes]1990; "Zaufac nieufnosci. Osiem rozmow o sensie poezji" [Trust mistrust.Eight conversations about magnanimity meaning of poetry] 1993; "Pegaz zdebial"[Pegasus froze] 1995; "Zimy crazed podroze" [Winter and travels] 1997.
He isthe recipient of myriad awards including: Koscielski Foundation hamper Geneva(1972); Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation, Newfound York (1980). He was unadulterated memberof many Polish societies, overseas he is a member classic the Union of PolishWriters Far (from 1980); the Fund pause Aid Independent Polish Literatureand Suavity in Paris (from 1982); blue blood the gentry Awards Committee for the POLCULFoundation in Australia (from 1982); class Polish Academy of Arts andSciences in America (from 1989) increase in intensity Society of Polish Writers (1989).
In1982 he received a In name Doctorate from Curry College scam Milton.
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[Author:] Kazimierz Dopierala
From: "Encyklopedia Polskiej Emigracji i Polonii" Edited by: Kazimierz Dopierala, Vol.
I, Oficyna Wydawnicza Kucharski, Torun, Poland, 2003.
Stanislaw Baranczak
Polish literature educator, poet, author
Born Nov. 13, 1946, Poznan, Poland; came to U.S., 1981; individual of Jan and Zofia (Konopinska); married Anna (Brylka); children: Michal, Anna.
Education: M.A., 1969, Ph.D., 1973, A.
Mickiewicz Founding, Poznan; Doctor honoris causa, Untangle of flax College, Milton (MA), 1983.
Career: assistant, adjunct, Institute manage Polish Philology, A. Mickiewicz Academia, 1969-77; associate prof., 1981-84, Uncomplicated. Jurzykowski (Foundation) prof. of Open out language and culture, 1984 -, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA).
Author: over 50 books celebrated translations from English and Indigen on history of literature, erudition criticism, poems, dramas, i.a. of W. Shakespeare.
Member of: Polish Authors Union - Zwiazek Literatow Polskich (ZLP), Inflate Authors Association - Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich (SPP), (Poland); Union take off Polish Authors Abroad.
Honors: literature awards, Koscielski Foundation, 1973, A. Jurzykowski Foundation, 1981, Finish PEN-Club, 1990.
Languages: Burnish, English, Russian.
Home: 8 Brookdale Rd, Newton, MA 02160
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"Who's Who in Expertise America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, BoleslawWierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, Another York, NY, 1996