Marek Kazmierski

Marek Kazmierski
Born	Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	British, Polish
Occupation	Writer, translator, editor

Marek Kazmierski (born 1973) a writer, editor and translator, specializing in literary translations from Polish into English.

In 1985 he escaped communist Poland as a child and settled in the UK.^[1] Joint winner of the Decibel Penguin Prize and sole recipient of the BIKE Magazine Philosopher of the Year award. Marek was also the managing editor of the prison literary magazine Not Shut Up,^[2][3] a member of the English PEN Readers & Writers committee and founded of OFF PRESS, an independent publishing house which has worked with the British Council, English PEN, the Southbank Centre, the Polish Cultural Institute and the Mayor of London. His work has been published in numerous journals, including The White Review,^[4] The Guardian, 3AM Magazine^[5] and Poetry Wales. He is also a recipient of the Visegrad Literary Grant residency at Villa Decius in Krakow, Poland, courtesy of The Polish Book Institute, and coordinated the Polish Arts Festival in Essex as well as and was involved in developing the academic research project eMigrating Landscapes^[6] at the SSEES, University College London.

Works

• Damn the source, London 2013 ISBN 9780957232730

Translations

Poetry

• Irit Amiel, Spóźniona/Delayed, Krakow, 2016 ISBN 978-83-7866-030-9
• Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Wioletta Greg, Finite Formulae and Theories of Chance, Arc Publications 2014 ISBN 978-1908376-91-6 (shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize, selected for European Literature Night at the British Library, 2015)
• Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska, Of me a worm and of the worm verses, London 2012 ISBN 9780957232709
• Joanna Lech, Nothing of This ISBN 9780956394675
• Free Over Blood. Contemporary Polish poetry in translation,^[7] London 2011 ISBN 9780956394620
• Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Smenas Memory, London 2011 ISBN 9780956394682
• Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Should not have born (ISBN 9780956394668)
• Jakobe Mansztajn, Vienna High Live ISBN 9780956394651)

Awards

• Shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize (translator)^[8]
• Selected for European Literature Night at the British Library (translator)^[9]
• Twice nominated for the Found in Translation Award
• Joint winner of the Penguin Decibel Prize^[10]

External links

• Home Page
• OFF PRESS
• Not Shut Up

References

1. "Marek Kazmierski: Tuwim with a Hashtag – Interview - Artykuł - Culture.pl".
2. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/not-shut-up-charity-offers-prison-inmates-a-path-out-of-their-cells-and-into-the-arts-world-10163852.html
3. "Not Shut Up Magazine".
4. "Three Poems from Strawberry Aftertaste/ Ostateczny Smak Truskawek - The White Review".
5. "A Series of Short, Sharp Shocks". 14 January 2010.
6. "Interview with Marek Kazmierski". 15 July 2014.
7. "FREE OVER BLOOD".
8. "Griffin Poetry Prize - Marek Kazmierski".
9. "From governing a prison….to the Griffin Prize - European studies blog".
10. "From There to Here".