Lit in Translation

Jacek Podsiadło

Born 1964 · Poland

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Nike 2021 · Shortlist

    Podwójne wahadło

    Title translated by AI:“Double Pendulum”

    Jacek Podsiadło · 56 when first published

    Poetry · 52 pages

    AI-generated summary:Poems that look back: on books read long ago, on the poet's own past and on history, from antiquity to the Holocaust and vanished synagogues, and on friends such as Julia Hartwig and Tomasz Pułka.

  • No English yet

    Nike 2017 · Shortlist

    Włos Bregueta

    Title translated by AI:“Breguet's Hair”

    Jacek Podsiadło · 52 when first published

    Poetry · 31 pages

    AI-generated summary:Poems, among them a wry list of the conventions of old Polish films, with directors picked at random, scripts from the moon, young actors and murders in Zakopane.

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    Nike 2015 · Shortlist

    Przez sen

    Title translated by AI:“Through Sleep”

    Jacek Podsiadło · 50 when first published

    Poetry · 31 pages

    AI-generated summary:A short collection of poems made together with the graphic artist Małgorzata Rybicka, whose design and unusual layout carry the poems' meanings.