Jacek Dehnel

Jacek Dehnel (born 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish poet, writer, translator and painter. His first collection of poems was the last book recommended by the Polish Nobel Prize winner, Czesław Miłosz. A prolific autor of nine books of poems, five novels, a few collections of short proses, columns and essays, Dehnel has also translated works of (among others) Philip Larkin, Henry James, Edmund White, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, J.M. Coetzee, Charles Dickens and William Faulkner. His own works were translated into over a dozen of languages – in English are available his two novels („Saturn”, Dedalus Books, 2013, and „Lala”, Oneworld, 2018, by Antonia Lloyd-Jones), a selection of poems „Aperture” (Zephyr Press, 2018, by Karen Kovacik), awarded Honorary Mention of the PEN America Poetry in Translation award.  Dehnel has been awarded literary prizes that include the Kościelski Award and the Paszport „Polityki” and nominated to many other. Since 2020 he and his husband live in Berlin.