Julia Hartwig-Międzyrzecka (14 August 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a Polish writer, poet and translator, considered to be one of Poland's most important poets.[1][2][3]
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Born | (1921-08-14)14 August 1921 Lublin, Poland |
Died | 14 July 2017(2017-07-14) (aged 95) Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania |
Occupation | Poet, translator |
She was born and raised in Lublin. She studied Polish and French literature at Warsaw University and continued her studies at the Catholic University of Lublin.[4] Her first poems appeared in the journal Odrodzenie in 1944. Hartwig lived in Paris from 1947-50. In 1954, she published Z niedalekich podróży (From Nearby Places), a collection of articles. She published her first collection of poetry Pożegnania (Farewells) in 1956.[1]
She lived in the United States from 1970 to 1974, later returning to Warsaw.[4] During her time in America, Hartwig took part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and also taught at several universities.[5]
She published translations of French poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy and wrote books on Apollinaire and Gérard de Nerval.[6] She also published translations of American poets such as Robert Bly and Marianne Moore.[1] Hartwig's poetry has been translated into English, French, Italian, Russian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Greek and German.[5]
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Hartwig was awarded the Jurzykowski Prize, the Thornton Wilder Prize from Columbia University's Translation Center and the Georg Trakl Poetry Prize.[6] She received six nominations for the prestigious Nike Award. She is the winner of the 2014 Wisława Szymborska Award for her book of poetry Zapisane.[7]
In 1954,[8] Hartwig married poet Artur Międzyrzecki [pl]; he died in 1996.[3][4] She died on 14 July 2017 in Pennsylvania at the age of 95.[9]
She was the sister of the prominent photographer Edward Hartwig.
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