{"id":4636,"date":"2024-09-28T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:59:57","slug":"jacek-danel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/2024\/ucesnici-2024\/jacek-danel\/","title":{"rendered":"JACEK DENEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jacek Dehnel<\/strong> was born in 1980 in Gda\u0144sk. He studied Polish language and literature at the University of Warsaw. He lived in Warsaw and worked as a television host of a cultural programme and as a columnist for the \u201cVirtual Poland\u201d portal and the weekly <em>Polityka<\/em> until 2020, when he moved to Berlin. He has translated works by Osip Mandelstam, W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others. He is a co-author of the screenplay for the award-winning experimental animated film <em>Loving Vincent<\/em> (2017), about the life of painter Vincent van Gogh, with particular emphasis on the circumstances surrounding his death. Together with Piotr Tarczy\u0144ski, he published works under the pseudonym Maryla Szymiczkowa.<\/p>\n<p>He has published the short story collections <em>Kolekcja<\/em> (<em>The Collection<\/em>, 1999), <em>Rynek w Smyrnie<\/em> (<em>Market Square in Smyrna<\/em>, 2007), <em>Balzakiana<\/em> (<em>Balzaciana<\/em>, 2008), <em>Fotoplastikon<\/em> (<em>The Fotoplastikon<\/em>, 2009), and <em>Kosmografia, czyli trzydzie\u015bci apokryf\u00f3w tu\u0142aczych<\/em> (<em>Cosmography, or Thirty Wandering Apocrypha<\/em>, 2012). His novels include <em>Lala<\/em> (2006), <em>Saturn. Czarne obrazy z \u017cycia m\u0119\u017cczyzn z rodziny Goya<\/em> (<em>Saturn: Black Paintings from the Lives of the Men of the Goya Family<\/em>, 2011), <em>Matka Makryna<\/em> (<em>Mother Makryna<\/em>, 2014), <em>Krivoklat<\/em> (2016), <em>Ale z naszymi umar\u0142ymi<\/em> (<em>But with Our Dead<\/em>, 2019), and <em>\u0141ab\u0119dzie<\/em> (<em>Swans<\/em>, 2023). In 2013, he published a collection of columns on books and reading, <em>M\u0142odszy ksi\u0119gowy<\/em> (<em>The Junior Accountant<\/em>), and in 2015, diary entries under the title <em>Dziennik Roku Chrystusowego<\/em> (<em>Diary of the Year of Christ<\/em>). He is the author of ten poetry collections: <em>\u017bywoty r\u00f3wnoleg\u0142e<\/em> (<em>Parallel Lives<\/em>, 2004), <em>Wyprawa na po\u0142udnie<\/em> (<em>Journey to the South<\/em>, 2005), <em>Wiersze<\/em> (<em>Poems<\/em>, 2006), <em>Brzytwa okamgnienia<\/em> (<em>The Razor of a Blink<\/em>, 2007), <em>Ekran kontrolny<\/em> (<em>The Control Screen<\/em>, 2009), <em>Rubryki strat i zysk\u00f3w<\/em> (<em>Columns of Losses and Gains<\/em>, 2011), <em>J\u0119zyki obce<\/em> (<em>Foreign Languages<\/em>, 2013), <em>Seria w ciemno\u015b\u0107<\/em> (<em>Series into Darkness<\/em>, 2016), <em>Najdziwniejsze<\/em> (<em>The Strangest Thing<\/em>, 2019), and <em>Bruma<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n<p>He is the recipient of the Ko\u015bcielski Award (2005), the <em>Polityka<\/em> Passport Award (2007), and the City of Gda\u0144sk\u2019s <em>Splendor Gedanensis<\/em> Award (2009). Since 2009, he has been nominated five times for the Nike Award, twice for the Angelus Central European Literature Award, and once for the Wis\u0142awa Szymborska Award. In 2008, the Council for the Polish Language awarded him the title of Honorary Ambassador of the Polish Language, and in May 2011, the title of Young Ambassador of the Polish Language. In recognition of his contribution to culture, in 2015 he was awarded the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture &#8211; <em>Gloria Artis<\/em>, conferred by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.<\/p>\n<p>His books have been translated into more than fifteen languages.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacek Dehnel was born in 1980 in Gda\u0144sk. He studied Polish language and literature at the University of Warsaw. He lived in Warsaw and worked as a television host of a cultural programme and as a columnist for the \u201cVirtual Poland\u201d portal and the weekly Polityka until 2020, when he moved to Berlin. 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