Leszek Engelking
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Leszek Engelking - Polish
poet
, short-story writer, critic
, essay
ist, scholar, and translator.
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 Palacký University, Olomouc
(Czech Republic
). He now teaches at Łódż University in Poland
.
Member of Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich
(Association of Polish Writers, from 1989), Polish PEN Club
(from 2000) and of the Société Europeénne de Culture (from 1994).
He lives in Brwinów
(Poland
).
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). A small collection of his poems was published in Spanish
(Museo de la infancia - Museum of Childhood, 2010).
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), devoted to Czech Group 42
, 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), Ada (2009), and The Original of Laura (2010) and a collection of stories by the same author, Nabokov's Dozen (1995).
He has also translated M. Ageyev
’s Novel with Cocaine (1996), Daniela Hodrova’s novel Podobojí (Bread and Blood, 2001), Jáchym 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), and Jiří Kolář
(Sposób użycia i inne wiersze [Directions for Use and Other Poems], 2010).
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 Voloshin
, 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 has also translated poems by Basil Bunting
, Amy Lowell
, Hilda Doolittle, William Carlos Williams
, Langston Hughes
, Kerry Shawn Keys
, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Federico García Lorca
, Abel Murcia, Sergei Zavyalov, Iryna Zhylenko
, Lina Kostenko
, and Andrei Khadanovich.
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
, Serbian
, Slovak
, Slovene, Spanish
, Ukrainian
and Upper Sorbian, translations of his short stories have appeared in English
and Czech
.
Poles
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poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, short-story writer, critic
Critic
A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...
, essay
Essay
An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...
ist, scholar, and translator.
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
Literatura na Swiecie
Literatura na Świecie was, during the times of the Polish People's Republic, one of the most widely read and sought after periodicals in Poland...
" ("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 Palacký University, Olomouc
Palacký University, Olomouc
The Palacký University of Olomouc is the oldest university in Moravia and the second-oldest in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1573 as a public university led by the Jesuit order in Olomouc, which was at that time the capital of Moravia and the seat of the episcopacy...
(Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
). He now teaches at Łódż University in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
.
Member of Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich
Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich
The Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich is a Polish Writers' Association, an organization of major Polish writers, poets, playwrights, critics and translators. SPP is a continuation of the Polish Writers Association, founded in 1920....
(Association of Polish Writers, from 1989), Polish PEN Club
International PEN
PEN International , the worldwide association of writers, was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere....
(from 2000) and of the Société Europeénne de Culture (from 1994).
He lives in Brwinów
Brwinów
Brwinów is a town in Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, about 25 km from the centre of Warsaw; according to the 2008 records Brwinów has 12131 inhabitants....
(Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
).
Honors
- The Award of "Literatura na ŚwiecieLiteratura na SwiecieLiteratura na Świecie was, during the times of the Polish People's Republic, one of the most widely read and sought after periodicals in Poland...
" for translation (1989, 2003, 2009), - The Award of Polish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Society (2000)
- Premia Bohemica (the Czech prize; 2003)
- Polish PEN Club Award (2010)
Works
He has published six 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)
- Dom piąty (The Fifth House, 1997)
- I inne wiersze (And Other Poems, 20002000 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally.* February —...
; new and selected poems) - Muzeum dzieciństwa (Museum of Childhood, 20112011 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:June 12 – A poet and student, Ayat al-Ghermezi of Bahrain, is sentenced to a year in prison as part of that kingdom's crackdown on Shiite protesters calling for greater rights...
)
A selection of his poems have appeared in Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
translation (Vid ciogho ne vmirayut’ [You Can’t Die from This], 1997), as well as in Czech
Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
(Jiné básně a jiné básně – "Other Poems" and Other Poems, 1998) and Slovak
Slovak language
Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
(Zanechala si otlačky prstov na mojej koži – You have Left Finger-Marks on My Skin, 2005). A small collection of his poems was published in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
(Museo de la infancia - Museum of Childhood, 2010).
Two leaflets with his poems in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...
(1989) and Vladimir Nabokov - podivuhodný kouzelník (1997, in Czech
Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
), 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), devoted to Czech Group 42
Group 42
Group 42 was a Czech artistic group officially established in 1942 . The group's activity ceased in 1948, but its influence on Czech literature and Czech art was still evident in further years....
, an anthology
Anthology
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
of British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
, Wyspy na jeziorze (The Lake Isles, 1988), an anthology
Anthology
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
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), Ada (2009), and The Original of Laura (2010) and a collection of stories by the same author, Nabokov's Dozen (1995).
He has also translated M. Ageyev
M. Ageyev
M. Ageyev is believed to be the nom-de-plume of Russian author Mark Lazarevich Levi , .-Biography:...
’s Novel with Cocaine (1996), Daniela Hodrova’s novel Podobojí (Bread and Blood, 2001), Jáchym Topol
Jáchym Topol
Jáchym Topol is a Czech writer.- Life :Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí...
’s novels Sestra (Sister. City. Silver, 2002), Noční práce (Night Work, 2004) and Kloktat dehet (2008), Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
’s book of essays Spirit of Romance (1999), Nickie Roberts' history of prostitution
Prostitution
Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...
in Western societies Whores in History (1997), Miroslav Holub
Miroslav Holub
Miroslav Holub was a Czech poet and immunologist.Miroslav Holub's work was heavily influenced by his experiences as an Immunologist, writing many poems using his scientific knowledge to poetic effect. His work is almost always unrhymed, so lends itself easily to translation...
's volume of essays Troubles on a Spaceship (1998), Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
’s book of poems Love Is a Dog from Hell (2003), and Christopher Reid
Christopher Reid
Christopher Reid is a Hong Kong-born British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997. A contemporary of Martin Amis, he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He is one of the exponents of Martian poetry which employs...
's book of poems Katerina Brac (2001, in collaboration with Jerzy Jarniewicz), as well as selections of poems by Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
(Poezje wybrane [Selected Poems], 1989), Nikolay Gumilyov
Nikolay Gumilyov
Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilev was an influential Russian poet who founded the acmeism movement.-Early life and poems:Nikolai was born in the town of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island, into the family of Stepan Yakovlevich Gumilev , a naval physician, and Anna Ivanovna L'vova . His childhood nickname was...
(Tramwaj zbłąkany i inne wiersze [The Stray Tramway and Other Poems], 1990), Petr Mikeš (Dom jest tam [The House Is There], 1991), Ivan Wernisch
Ivan Wernisch
Ivan Wernisch is a Czech poet, editor and a collage artist. He studied Ceramics Secondary school in Carlsbad and has since done many jobs, mostly manual. In 1961, after publishing his debut poetry book, he quickly established himself as one of the best and most loved writers of his generation...
(Cmentarz objazdowy [A Travelling Cemetery], 1991), and Pchli teatrzyk [Flea Theater], vol 1, 2003; vol. 2, 2007), Ivan Blatný
Ivan Blatný
Ivan Blatný was a Czech poet, member of Skupina 42 .-Life:...
(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
Miroslav Holub
Miroslav Holub was a Czech poet and immunologist.Miroslav Holub's work was heavily influenced by his experiences as an Immunologist, writing many poems using his scientific knowledge to poetic effect. His work is almost always unrhymed, so lends itself easily to translation...
(Wiersze [Poems], 1996), Richard Caddel
Richard Caddel
Richard Caddel was a poet, publisher and editor who was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.-Biography:Caddel was born in Bedford and grew up in Gillingham, Kent. He studied music at the University of Newcastle, but changed to English after meeting poets Basil Bunting and Tom Pickard...
(Mały atlas klimatyczny duszy [A Short Climate-Atlas of the Soul], 1996), Václav Burian (Czas szuflad [Time of Drawers], 1997), and Egon Bondy
Egon Bondy
Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer, was a Czech philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the main personalities of the Prague underground.In the late 1940s, Bondy was active in a surrealistic group...
(Dzisiaj wypiłem dużo piw [I Have Drunk a Lot of Lagers Today], 1997), and Jiří Kolář
Jirí Kolár
Jiří Kolář was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work was divided between literary and visual art.- Life :Kolář came from a poor family of a baker and a seamstress...
(Sposób użycia i inne wiersze [Directions for Use and Other Poems], 2010).
In addition, his selection of short stories by Ladislav Klíma
Ladislav Klíma
Ladislav Klíma , was a Czech philosopher and novelist influenced by George Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism.-Life:...
appeared in 2004 (Jak będzie po śmierci [How It Will Be after Death]) and his translation of Michal Ajvaz
Michal Ajvaz
Michal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, poet and translator, an exponent of the literary style known as magic realism.- Biography :...
’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 Voloshin
Maximilian Voloshin
Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin was a Russian poet and famous Freemason. He was one of the significant representatives of the Symbolist movement in Russian culture and literature...
, Poezje (Poems, 1981), Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert was a Nobel Prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist.Born in Žižkov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, his first collection of poems was published in 1921...
, 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
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
, 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
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (* February 2, 1849 in Vyšný Kubín (Felsőkubin), Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Hungary, † November 8, 1921 in Dolný Kubín, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator and for a short time member...
, Dzieci Prometeusza (The Children of Prometheus [selected poems], 1999).
He has also translated poems by Basil Bunting
Basil Bunting
Basil Cheesman Bunting was a significant British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud...
, Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell
Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.- Personal life:...
, Hilda Doolittle, William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...
, Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance...
, Kerry Shawn Keys
Kerry Shawn Keys
Kerry Shawn Keys – American poet, writer, playwright and translator. He is a citizen of the United States and Lithuania.- Notable awards :* National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, USA, 2005...
, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...
, Abel Murcia, Sergei Zavyalov, Iryna Zhylenko
Iryna Zhylenko
Iryna Volodymyrivna Zhylenko is a Ukrainian poet. She is a wife of Volodimir Drozd.Zhylenko was an author of intimate and landscape poetry. She was also an author of reportages and poems for children. A laureate of Shevchenko Award for her collection of poetry Verchirka u starij vynarnij...
, Lina Kostenko
Lina Kostenko
Lina Kostenko is a Ukrainian poet and writer, recipient of the Shevchenko Award . Kostenko is a leading representative of Ukrainian poets of the sixties known as Shestydesiantnyky . This group started publishing during the 1950s and reached its apex during the early 1960s...
, and Andrei Khadanovich.
He is an associate of the American journal Paideuma devoted to Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
, the Czech journal Slavia and the Polish monthly Tygiel Kultury
Engelking's poems, short stories, essays, papers, reviews, and translations from English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
, Czech
Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
, Slovak
Slovak language
Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
, Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
, Belorussian and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
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
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Czech
Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Lithuanian
Lithuanian language
Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...
, Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
, Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
, Slovak
Slovak language
Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
, Slovene, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
and Upper Sorbian, translations of his short stories have appeared in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and Czech
Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
.