Literary Festival - Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski is an internationally acclaimed poet who was born in Poland, immigrated to France, and now teaches in Houston, Texas. Though he writes in Polish, several of his poetry collections have been translated into English, including Tremor (1985), Canvas (1991), and Mysticism for Beginners (1997). Zagajewski has been awarded the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm fellowship, the Kurt Tucholsky Prize, a Prix de la Liberte, and a Guggenheim fellowship. His essays have been collected in Two Cities (1995) and Solidarity, Solitude (1990). Zagajewski is, wrote Adam Kirsch in the New Republic, the preeminent Polish poet of his generation. According to Jaroslaw Anders in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, he is one of the most interesting poets of his generation writing in any language.

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