Jakub Kornhauser

Jakub Kornhauser is a Polish poet, essayist, translator, editor, literary scholar and co-founder of the Center for Avant-Garde Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He has published eight volumes of prose poetry, incl. Drożdżownia (The Yeast Factory), which won the 2016 Wisława Szymborska Award; four books with essays, incl. a best-selling collection of bicycle texts, Premie górskie najwyższej kategorii (Mountain Climbs Hors Categorie; 2021 Znaczenia Award); several monographs on the European avant-gardes; anthologies of Polish contemporary poetry; as well as translations of books by i.e. Henri Michaux, Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum, Miroljub Todorović and Dumitru Crudu, Claudiu Komartin, Perrine Le Querrec. Editor-in-Chief of several book series, incl. awangarda/rewizje and Heterotopie (both Jagiellonian University Press), as well as of the academic journal ‘Romanica Cracoviensia’. Member of the Gdynia Literary Prize Jury. He lives in Kraków, Poland.

 

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