Tadeusz Dąbrowski

Tadeusz Dąbrowski (born 1979) is a Polish poet, essayist, and critic. He is also the editor of the literary bimonthly Topos and co-editor of the poetry podcast on Radio Gdańsk. He was (2012-2019) the art director of the European Poet of Freedom Festival.

Dąbrowski has been published in many journals in Poland (among others: Tygodnik Powszechny, Zeszyty Literackie, Polityka, Rzeczpospolita, Dziennik, Twórczość, Odra, Chimera, Res Publica Nowa, Kresy) and abroad (The New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, Agni, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, Harvard Review, Crazyhorse, Little Star, Little Star Weekly, Guernica, The Common, Tikkun, Poetry Daily, 3 Quarks Daily, Image, Body, Arc Poetry Magazine, Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Ireland, Poetry London, The Reader, Shearsman, Poetry Wales, 3:AM, Seam, Other Poetry, iota, Poetry Salzburg Review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Akzente, Sprache im technischen Zeitalter, EDIT, Ostragehege, manuskripte, Lichtungen, Karogs).

He has been a recipient of stipends awarded by Landis & Gyr (Switzerland, 2019), Literaturhaus Zürich (2016), Yaddo (USA, 2015), the Omi International Arts Center (USA, 2013), Vermont Studio Center (2011), Literatur Lana (Italy, 2011), Internationales Haus der Autoren Graz (2008), Polish Minister of Culture (2007, 2010), Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (2006, 2012), and the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators (Visby, 2004, 2010).

He has also been the winner of numerous awards, among others, the Horst Bienek Prize (Germany, 2014), the Kościelski Prize (2009), the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw (2014), the Hubert Burda Prize (Germany, 2008) and, from Tadeusz Różewicz, the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Culture (2006). He has been nominated for NIKE, the most important Polish literary award (2010).

He is the author of nine volumes of poetry, and edited the anthology Poza słowa. His work has been translated into 30 languages, and two collections of his poetry in English, Black Square (2011), and POSTS (2017), translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, were published by Zephyr Press.

He lives in Gdańsk.