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(under construction) Leszek ENGELKING (born 2.02.1955 in Bytom, Upper Silesia,          Poland) - Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and           translator. Member of Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich (Association of Polish Writers, from  1989), Polish Pen Club (from 2000) and of the Societé Europeénne de Culture (from 1994). Honors: The Award of Literatura na Świecie for translation (1989, 2003), the Award of Polish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Society (2000), and the Czech prize, Premia Bohemica (2003). He graduated from Warsaw University (1979). He received his doctorate in 2002. From 1984 to 1995, he was a member of an editorial staff of Literatura na Świecie (Literature in the World),a Polish monthly devoted to foreign literature. From 1997 - 1998, he was a lecturer at Warsaw University and a visiting professor at F. Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic). He now teaches at Łódż University in Poland. He has published four collections of poems: Autobus do hotelu Cytera (A Bus to the Cythera Hotel, 1979), Haiku własne i cudze (Haiku by Myself and Others, 1991), Mistrzyni kaligrafii i inne wiersze ( The  Mistress of Calligraphy  and Other Poems, 1994), and Dom piąty (The Fifth House, 1997), as well as a volume of new and selected poems, I inne wiersze (And Other Poems, 2000). A selection of his poems have appeared in Ukrainian translation(Vid ciogho ne vmirayut’ [You Can’t Die from This]. 1997), as well as in Czech  (Jiné básně a jiné básně – “Other Poems” and Other Poems, 1998) and  Slovak  (Zanechala si otlačky prstov na mojej koži – You have Left Finger-Marks on My Skin, 2005). Two leaflets with his poems in English translation have appeared as well. These are: Your Train the Local, Reading, Pa 2001; and Paulina’s House, Reading. Pa 2002, both translated by Craig Czury. A volume of his short stories Szczęście i inne prozy (Happiness and Other Short Prose) appeared in 2007. He also published the monographs Vladimir Nabokov (1989) and Vladimir Nabokov - podivuhodný kouzelník (1997, in Czech), as well as Surrealism, underground, postmodernism. Szkice o literaturze czeskiej (2001), and Codzienność i mit. Poetyka, programy i historia Grupy 42 w kontekstach dwudziestowiecznej awangardy i postawangardy (2005), an anthology of British and American poetry, Wyspy na jeziorze (The  Lake  Isles, 1988), an anthology of Czech poetry, Maść przeciw poezji (Ointment against Poetry, 2008)and a  translation  of  Vladimir Nabokov's  novels Invitation to a Beheading (1990), Despair (1993),  King,  Queen,  Knave  (1994), and Ada (2009) and a collection of stories by the same author, Nabokov's  Dozen  (1995). He has also translated M. Ageev’s Novel with Cocaine  (1996), Daniela Hodrova’s novel Podobojí (Bread and Blood, 2001), Jáchymm Topol’s novels Sestra (Sister. City. Silver, 2002), Noční práce (Night Work, 2004) and Kloktat dehet (2008), Ezra Pound’s book of essays Spirit of Romance (1999), Nickie Roberts' history of prostitution in Western societies Whores in History (1997), Miroslav Holub's volume of essays Troubles on a Spaceship (1998), Charles Bukowski’s book of poems Love Is a Dog from Hell (2003), and Christopher  Reid's  book  of  poems  Katerina  Brac (2001, in collaboration with Jerzy Jarniewicz), as well as selections of  poems by  Ezra Pound (Poezje wybrane [Selected Poems], 1989), Nikolay Gumilyov (Tramwaj zbłąkany i inne wiersze [The Stray Tramway and Other Poems], 1990), Petr Mikeš (Dom jest tam [The House Is There]. 1991), Ivan Wernisch (Cmentarz objazdowy [A  Travelling  Cemetery]. 1991), and Pchli teatrzyk [Flea Theater]. Vol 1, 2003, vol 2, 2007),  Ivan  Blatný  (Szkoła  specjalna [Special School].1993), Agneta Pleijel (Anioły ze snu [Angels from a Dream]  1995),  Oldřich  Wenzl (Słyszę kroki ementalera [I Can Hear  the  Steps of Emmenthaler]. 1996), Miroslav Holub (Wiersze [Poems]. 1996),  Richard  Caddel  (Mały atlas klimatyczny duszy [A Short  Climate-Atlas  of  the  Soul]. 1996), Václav Burian (Czas szuflad  [Time of Drawers]. 1997), and Egon Bondy (Dzisiaj wypiłem  dużo  piw [I Have Drunk a Lot of Lagers Today]. 1997). In addition, his selection of short stories by Ladislav Klíma appeared in 2004 (Jak będzie po śmierci [How It Will Be after Death]. ) and his translation of Michal Ajvaz’s book of poems, short stories and a novel was published in 2005 (Morderstwo w hotelu Intercontinental. Powrót starego warana. Inne miasto [The Murder in the Intercontinental Hotel. Old Monitor’s Return. Other City). Engelking is also a co-translator of various books including, among others: Maximilian Woloshin Poezje (Poems. 1981), Jaroslav Seifert, Poezje wybrane (Selected Poems. 1986), W. B. Yeats, Poezje wybrane (1987), W.B. Yeats, Wiersze wybrane (Selected Poems. 1997), W.B. Yeats, Dramaty (Plays. 1994), Ezra Pound Pieśni (The Cantos [selection]. 1996), Gerardo Beltrán Krótki pejzaż z cieniami (The Short Landscape with Shadows [poems]. 1996), David A. Carrión, Kłopoty urodzonego we wrześniu (Troubles of a Man Born in September [poems]. 1996), and Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Dzieci Prometeusza (The Children of Prometheus [selected poems]. 1999). He is an associate of the American journal Paideuma devoted to Ezra Pound, the Czech journal Slavia, and the Polish monthly Tygiel Kultury. Engelking's poems, short stories, essays, papers, reviews, and translations from English, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Belorussian and Spanish appeared in various anthologies as well as in many Polish, American, Canadian, Czech, and Slovak periodicals. Translations of his poems have been published in English, Czech, German, Lithuanian, Russian, and Serbian. Slovak, Spanish and Ukrainian, translations of his short stories have appeared in English and Czech.

Leszek Englelking (l.)with Czech Writer Vaclav Burian,