20 December 2023

Slovak edition of a selection of poems by Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar

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A volume of selected poetry by Marzanna Bogumila Kielar entitled Pokrvný strom has been published in Slovakia. The poems were translated into Slovak by Silvia Kaščáková. The translation was supported by the Book Institute as part of the ©Poland Translation Programme.

Selected poems by Marzanna Bogumila Kielar were published in Slovak by the Skalná ruža publishing house.

Pokrvný strom includes translations of poems from four poetry volumes by Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar, namely Sacra conversazione (1992), Materia prima (1999), Monodia (2006), and Nawigacje (“Navigations”, 2018). To date, Kielar’s poems have already been translated into more than twenty different languages, including English, German, Czech, and Serbian.

Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar is a poet, a graduate in philosophy at the University of Warsaw, she holds a PhD in social sciences and is an associate professor at the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Christian Academy of Theology. She has received many awards and honorary mentions, including the Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Award, the Kościelski Award, the “Czas Kultury” Award, and the Polityka Passport Award.

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28 October 2025

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