Born 1943 · Poland
Nike 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Which Way to Forever”
Piotr Matywiecki · 72 when first published
Poetry · 116 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems of history and existence, drawing on the poet's own life, from his birth amid the fires of war to a brush with death, and testing every word for emptiness.
Nike 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Tuwim's Face”
Piotr Matywiecki · 64 when first published
Nonfiction · 770 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A biography of the poet Julian Tuwim, from a poor Jewish youth in Łódź through the Skamander group in Warsaw and wartime exile in America to the disappointments of postwar Poland.
Nike 2006 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“This Cloud Returns”
Piotr Matywiecki · 62 when first published
Poetry · 89 pages
AI-generated summary:City poems in which every walk through Warsaw, past lifts, intercoms, metro lines and rotting courtyards, becomes a walk into memory, in a city the poet loves because it tolerates his existence.