Maciej Stroiński

Maciej Stroiński (born 1984) is a Polish literary translator from English, theatre critic, academic teacher at the Jagiellonian University and blogger.

Biography He comes from a rural background. (The Negative Self-Knowledge of Judaism in the Most Recent Israeli Cinema and the Jewish Diaspora in the United States) supervised by Tadeusz Lubelski. He has lectured at the Center for Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities of the Jagiellonian University, for MISH students and in English for Erasmus+ exchange students; and at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University. He published in “Ha!art”, E-teatr.pl, “Teatr", “Tygodnik Powszechny”, “Znak”, “Dwutygodnik”, and “Krytyka Polityczna”.

In 2020, due to the lockdown following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, he interrupted his work as a theatre critic and focused on translations. He became a member of the Association of Literary Translators and the ZAiKS Authors' Association. He received a translation grant from the Irish government under the Literature Ireland programme, a ZAiKS scholarship from the Fund for the Promotion of Creativity, and a creative scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the field of literature. He also received second prize (as one of three distinguished winners) in the PEN Club and ZAiKS literary competition “Freedom of Thought – Freedom of Expression” for his translation of Shalom Auslander's The Metamorphosis. He is interested in opera and camp.

Works Edition Kino polskie jako kino narodowe (edited together with Tadeusz Lubelski), Ha!art, 2009

Translations into Polish language Oscar Wilde, De profundis (Wydawnictwo Sic!, 2018) Shalom Auslander, Mother for Dinner (, 2022) John Edward Williams, Stoner (Wydawnictwo Filtry, 2023) Shalom Auslander, Foreskin's Lament (Wydawnictwo Filtry, 2023) David Sedaris, Happy-Go-Lucky (Wydawnictwo Filtry, 2024) John Edward Williams, Augustus (Wydawnictwo Filtry, 2025) Gwendoline Riley, My Phantoms (as Moje zmory; Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2025)