The Adam Wodnicki Award
About the award
Adam Wodnicki, 2011 rok. Fot. Anna Szwaja, CC BY-SA 3.0
We are pleased to announce that the first Adam Wodnicki Award is awarded to Mateusz Kwaterko for the translation from French of André Baillon’s book „Szczypawka z ogrodu Luksemburskiego i inne prozy,” published by Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy.
The Adam Wodnicki Award, founded by the Book Institute in tribute to this great visual artist, translator of French literature and writer, supports French-Polish translators or those working on translations of books on art from any language into Polish. The Award is funded by the Book Institute.
The author of the winning translation will receive 10,000 PLN.
The jury of Adam Wodnicki Award: Grzegorz Jankowicz (chair), Piotr Kieżun, Agnieszka Rasińska-Bóbr, Agnieszka Taborska, and Anna Wasilewska.
Adam Wodnicki (1930–2020) – a full art professor, long-time teacher, dean and vice-rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was a translator of French literature, mainly poetry. His translations included works by Saint-John Perse, Yves Bonnefoy, Edmond Jabès, Julien Gracq, and the prose of Patrick Roegiers and Simone Weil. He was twice a recipient of the Literatura na Świecie quarterly award and the ZaiKS Award. He was a founding member of the Cap à l’Est International Association of French-Language Poets of Central and Eastern Europe – co-organiser of a European festival of poetry, theatre and music. He is the author of: ‘Notatki z Prowansji’ (Notes from Provence, 2011), ‘Obrazki z krainy d’Oc’ (Pictures from the Land of d’Oc, 2012) and ‘Tryptyk oksytański’ (Occitan Triptych, 2014),
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