Tomasz Różycki

Tomasz Różycki gained critical acclaim for "Twelve Stations." In 2004, the book-length poem won the prestigious Kościelski Foundation Prize and was named best Book of the Spring 2004 by the Raczyński Library in Poznań. He has received the Krzysztof Kamiel Baczyński Prize (1997), the Czas Kultury Prize (1997), The Rainer Maria Rilke Award (1998), and the Joseph Brodskie Prize from Zeszyty Literackie (2006). He has been nominated twice for the NIKE Prize (2005 and 2007), and once for the Paszport Polityki (2004), Poland's top literary award. "Colonies," Mira Rosenthal's 2013 translation into English of Kolonie (published by Zephyr Press), was shortlisted for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2014 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (UK), and won the 2014 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. It was long-listed for the 2014 PEN Poetry in Translation Award. Rosenthal's 2024 translation of To the Letter received the AATSEEL prize for Best Translation of Poetry into English. In 2023, he received the Grand Continent Prize for his book The Bulb Thieves, which, according to Giuliano da Empoli, member of the Prize Jury, "doesn't actually tell much: the day of a boy in a bar of buildings in communist Warsaw, sent by his parents, who collected a bag of coffee beans, to find a grinding machine. This story, which is not one, brings out a whole world. It’s wacky, very moving, it immerses us in this world. And we rewarded him for the somewhat selfish pleasure of being able to read it in full”. During his speech accepting the Prize, Tomasz Różycki declared