{{Short description|Polish poet (born 1958)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox writer | name = Jerzy Jarniewicz | image = Jerzy Jarniewicz 2024.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Jarniewicz in 2024 | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|5|4|df=yes}} | birth_place = Łowicz, Poland | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = poet, literary critic, translator, essayist | nationality = Polish | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = University of Łódź | period = | genre = fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''Mondo Cane'' (2021) | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = Silesius Poetry Award (2018)<br />Nike Award (2022) | signature = | website = | portaldisp = }}
'''Jerzy Jarniewicz''' (<small>Polish pronunciation</small>: {{IPAc-pl|'|j|e|rz|y|-|j|a|r|'|ń|e|w|i|cz}}; born 4 May 1958<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/5298-cztery-wiersze.html |language=pl |title=Cztery wiersze. Jerzy Jarniewicz |access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref>) is a Polish poet, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was awarded the 2022 Nike Award, the most important distinction in Polish literature as well as the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (2006).
==Life and career== Born in Łowicz in 1958, he is a graduate of the Bolesław Prus High School No. 21 in Łódź.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lo21.szkoly.lodz.pl/index.php?page=wybitni |language=pl |title=Wybitni absolwenci |access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref> He studied English language and literature as well as philosophy at the University of Łódź<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/jerzy-jarniewicz |language=pl |title=Jerzy Jarniewicz |website=Culture.pl |access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref> and between 1984 and 1985 at the University of Oxford.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/en/jerzy-jarniewicz-prof-dr-hab-2/ |title=JARNIEWICZ JERZY, PROF. DR HAB. |access-date=1 November 2022 |archive-date=1 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101100732/http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/en/jerzy-jarniewicz-prof-dr-hab-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is an editor of the literary monthly ''Literatura na Świecie''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.arkint.org/jerzy-jarniewicz |title=Jerzy Jarniewicz |website=The Arkansas International |access-date=1 November 2022 |archive-date=1 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101100731/https://www.arkint.org/jerzy-jarniewicz |url-status=dead }}</ref> and published literary criticism articles in ''Tygodnik Powszechny'' and ''Gazeta Wyborcza''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://archiwum-emigracja.uni.lodz.pl/en/?page_id=259 |title=EDITORIAL BOARD. PROF. JERZY JARNIEWICZ |access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref> as well as collaborated with such British literary magazines as ''Poetry Review'' and ''Areté''. He has taught English literature at the University of Łódź and the University of Warsaw. He also lectured at such institutions as the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield, York, Belfast, Dublin, Charles University in Prague, Magdeburg and Harvard.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/en/jerzy-jarniewicz-prof-dr-hab-2/ |title=JARNIEWICZ JERZY, PROF. DR HAB. |access-date=1 November 2022 |archive-date=1 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101100732/http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/en/jerzy-jarniewicz-prof-dr-hab-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2011, he became a member of the Council of the National Culture Center (Polish: ''Narodowe Centrum Kultury''). He is a former member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and served as a jury member of the Gdynia Literary Prize. He is also a member of the Association of Translators of Literature and Collegium Invisibile.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ci.edu.pl/index.php?id=tutorzy&kat=Czlonkowie |language=pl |title=Collegium Invisibile. tutorzy |access-date=1 November 2022 |archive-date=7 May 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130507035441/http://www.ci.edu.pl/index.php?id=tutorzy&kat=Czlonkowie |url-status=dead }}</ref> His main areas of interest include contemporary English and Irish poetry, literary translation, and the history of the Counterculture of the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/en/jerzy-jarniewicz-prof-dr-hab-2/ |title=JARNIEWICZ JERZY, PROF. DR HAB. |access-date=1 November 2022 |archive-date=1 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101100732/http://anglistyka.uni.lodz.pl/en/jerzy-jarniewicz-prof-dr-hab-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He translated the works of such English-language writers as James Joyce, Philip Roth, John Banville, Ursula Le Guin and Craig Raine.
In 2006, he was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit and Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. In 2008, he received a nomination to the Nike Award for his work ''Znaki firmowe''. In 2018, he won the Silesius Poetry Award in the Book of the Year category for ''Puste noce'' (Empty Nights).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://silesius.wroclaw.pl/2018/05/12/wroclawska-nagroda-poetycka-silesiues-2018-wyniki/ |language=pl |title=Wrocławska Nagroda Poetycka Silesiues 2018 – wyniki |access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref> In 2022, he received the most prestigious Polish literary distinction, the Nike Award, for his collection of poetry entitled ''Mondo Cane''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7791/Artykul/3046340,Poet-Jerzy-Jarniewicz-wins-top-Polish-literary-award |title=Poet Jerzy Jarniewicz wins top Polish literary award |website=Polskie Radio |access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref> The same year, he was also nominated to the Wisława Szymborska Award.
==Publications== ===Poetry=== *''Korytarze'' (1984) *''Rzeczy oczywistość'' (1992) *''Rozmowa będzie możliwa'' (1993) *''Są rzeczy których nie ma'' (1995) *''Niepoznaki'', published by Biuro Literackie Port Legnica (2000) *''Po śladach'' (2000) *''Dowód z tożsamości'', published by Biuro Literackie Port Legnica (2003) *''Oranżada'', published by Biuro Lirerackie, Wrocław, (2005) ({{ISBN|83-88515-82-9}}) *''Skądinąd. 1977–2007'' (2007) *''Makijaż'' (2009)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.instytutmikolowski.pl/jerzy-jarniewicz.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230003148/http://www.instytutmikolowski.pl/jerzy-jarniewicz.php |archive-date=2016-12-30 |language=pl |title=Jerzy Jarniewicz |access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref> *''Wybór wiersza'' (2012) *''Na dzień dzisiejszy i chwilę obecną'' (2012) *''Woda na Marsie'' (2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://biuroliterackie.pl/biuletyn/newsy/jerzy-jarniewicz-woda-na-marsie/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230002319/http://biuroliterackie.pl/biuletyn/newsy/jerzy-jarniewicz-woda-na-marsie/ |archive-date=2016-12-30 |language=pl |title=Jerzy JARNIEWICZ: Woda na Marsie |access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref> *''Puste noce'' (2017) *''Sankcje. Wybór wierszy i wypowiedzi'' (2018) *''Confiscarea instrumentelor'' (2019) *''Mondo cane'' (2021)
===Literary criticism=== *''The Uses of the Commonplace in Contemporary British Poetry'' (1994) *''Lista obecności. Szkice o dwudziestowiecznej prozie brytyjskiej i irlandzkiej'' (2000) *''W brzuchu wieloryba. Szkice o dwudziestowiecznej poezji brytyjskiej i irlandzkiej'' (2001) *''The Bottomless Centre. The Uses of History in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney'' (2002) *''Larkin. Odsłuchiwanie wierszy'' (2006) *''Znaki firmowe. Szkice o współczesnej prozie amerykańskiej i kanadyjskiej'' (2007) *''Od pieśni do skowytu. Szkice o poetach amerykańskich'' (2008) *''Heaney. Wiersze pod dotyk'' (2011) *''Gościnność słowa. Szkice o przekładzie literackim'' (2012) *''Ekphrasis in the Poetry of Derek Mahon'' (2013) *''In the Shadow of Foreign Tongues. Essays on Irish Poets'' (2014) *''Podsłuchy i podglądy'' (2015) *''All You Need Is Love. Sceny z życia kontrkultury'' (2016) *''Tłumacz między innymi. Szkice o przekładach, językach i literaturze'' (2018) *''Bunt wizjonerów'' (2019) *''Sizif pobednik. Ogledi o knijzevnom prevodu'' (2021)
==See also== *Polish Literature *Angelus Award *List of Polish poets
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