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Aleksander Kaczorowski

b. 1969

Polish translator, essayist and journalist

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Born 1969. Aleksander Kaczorowski is a Polish translator, essayist and journalist.

Aleksander Kaczorowski (born 29 May 1969 in Żyrardów) is a Polish bohemist, journalist, editor, writer and translator.

Life Kaczorowski has been studying at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Warsaw. In 1998, he graduated from Czech studies at the University of Warsaw.

Until 2002, he worked as a head of section for Gazeta Wyborcza, the biggest Polish newspaper. Later, he was deputy editor-in-chief of Newsweek Polska and Forum biweekly. Since 2012, he is editor-in-chief of Aspen Review Central Europe quarterly. He lectures at the University of Warsaw Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies.

He authored novels: Praskie łowy (Hunting in Prague) and collections of essays Praski elementarz (The Prague Reader), Ballada o kapciach (The Ballad of Slippers), as well as interviews Europa z płaskostopiem (Europe's Flat Feet). He wrote also biographies of Václav Havel Havel. Zemsta bezsilnych (Havel. The Revenge of the Powerless), Bohumil Hrabal Gra w życie (Playing at Life), and Ota Pavel Ota Pavel: pod powierzchnią (Ota Pavel: Beneath the Surface). Kaczorowski has translated books of such Czech authors as Bohumil Hrabal, Egon Bondy, and Josef Škvorecký, among others. He is member of Polish Writers' Association.

In 2015, Kaczorowski was nominated for Teresa Torańska Prize of Newsweek for his book on Havel. That year he was named by European Solidarity Centre and College of Eastern Europe the Ambassador of New Europe. He won Václav Burian Prize for cultural contribution to the Central European dialogue (2016). and nominated for Nike Literary Award for the book about Ota Pavel.

Works Books

Praski elementarz, Wołowiec: Czarne, 2001, 2012. Gra w życie. Opowieść o Bohumilu Hrabalu, Wołowiec: Czarne, 2004. Életjáték – Történet Bohumil Hrabalról, Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, 2006. Il gioco della vita. La storia di Bohumil Hrabal, Rome: Edizioni E/O, 2007. Europa z płaskostopiem, Wołowiec: Czarne, 2006. Praskie łowy, Warszawa: Świat Książki, 2007. Ballada o kapciach, Wołowiec: Czarne, 2012. Havel. Zemsta bezsilnych, Wołowiec: Czarne, 2014. Hrabal. Słodka apokalipsa, Wołowiec: Czarne, 2016. Ota Pavel: pod powierzchnią, Wołowiec: Czarne. 2018. Czechy. To nevymyslíš, Warszawa: Muza, 2022. Prezydent. Aleksander Kwaśniewski w rozmowie z Aleksandrem Kaczorowskim, Kraków: Znak Literanova, 2023. Babel. Człowiek bez losu, Wołowiec: Czarne 2023.

Translations

Egon Bondy, Noga świętego Patryka, Izabelin: Świat Literacki 1995. Bohumil Hrabal, Czuły barbarzyńca, Izabelin: Świat Literacki 1997. Josef Škvorecký, Przypadki niefortunnego saksofonisty tenorowego, Izabelin: Świat Literacki, 1999. László Szigeti, Drybling Hidegkutiego, czyli rozmowy z Hrabalem, Izabelin: Świat Literacki, 2002. Bohumil Hrabal, Piękna rupieciarnia, Wołowiec: Czarne, 2006, (with Jan Stachowski). Helga Weissová, Dziennik Helgi: świadectwo dziewczynki o życiu w obozach koncentracyjnych, Kraków: Insignis Media, 2013. (ed.), Inwazja na Czechosłowację 1968. Perspektywa rosyjska, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej 2015. , Hrabal w lustrze krytyki, [in:] W poszukiwaniu przerw w zabudowie. W stulecie urodzin Bohumila Hrabala, (ed. J. Goszczyńska), Warszawa 2015. Jakub Češka, Nic, tylko strach, czyli ironiczna spowiedź, [in:] W poszukiwaniu przerw w zabudowie. W stulecie urodzin Bohumila Hrabala, (ed. J. Goszczyńska), Warszawa 2015.

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Education
Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Warsaw, University of Warsaw
Employers
University of Warsaw, Gazeta Wyborcza, Newsweek Polska, Forum
Awards
Václav Burian Award

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Who is Aleksander Kaczorowski?

Polish translator, essayist and journalist

When was Aleksander Kaczorowski born?

Aleksander Kaczorowski was born on 29 May 1969 in Żyrardów.

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Aleksander Kaczorowski is a translator, essayist and journalist.

What nationality is Aleksander Kaczorowski?

Aleksander Kaczorowski is Polish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Aleksander Kaczorowski

· Wikidata: Q3609481

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