Adam Zagajewski
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Adam Zagajewski is indexed among the 9,861 entries in Vinony's American Academy of Arts & Sciences collection.
Within Vinony's link graph, Adam Zagajewski is referenced by 233 other articles, and connects out to Czesław Miłosz, Poland and Paris.
It sits within the topics 1945 births, 2021 deaths and 20th-century Polish essayists.
Its subject is documented across 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1945
- Died
- 2021
- Works
- 102
Top works
- Materiały bibliograficzne
- Lotnisko w Amsterdamie
- Listy 1939-1982
- פולין
- I cień i światło ...
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 137
- Total plays
- 185
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,518x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,410x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,031x
- The variant call format and VCFtools
· 2011 · cited 15,295x
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Quotes
- “You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere,you’ve heard the executioners sing joyfully.You should praise the mutilated world.Remember the moments when we were togetherin a white room and the curtain fluttered.Return in thought to the concert where music flared.You gathered acorns in the park in autumnand leaves eddied over the earth’s scars.Praise the mutilated worldand the gray feather a thrush lost,and the gentle light that strays and vanishesand returns.”
- “Our life is ordinary,I read in a crumpled paperabandoned on a bench.Our life is ordinary,the philosophers told me.”
- “December, herald of destruction,takes you on a long strollthrough the black torsos of treesand leaves scorched in autumn’s fire,as if to say: so much then foryour secrets and your treasures,the fervent trill of small birds,the promises of summer months.”
- “Don't allow the lucid moment to dissolveLet the radiant thought last in stillnessthough the page is almost filled and the flame flickersWe haven't risen yet to the level of ourselves.”
- “Probably I am an ordinary middle-classbeliever in individual rights, the word"freedom" is simple to me, it doesn't meanthe freedom of any class in particular.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1945-06-21 ) 21 June 1945, Lwów , Poland
- Died
- 21 March 2021 (2021-03-21) (aged 75), Kraków , Poland
- Occupation
- Poet essayist translator
- Nationality
- Polish
- Alma mater
- Jagiellonian University
- Notable works
- Unseen Hand Another Beauty Słuch absolutny Asymetria
- Notable awards
- Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath (2018) Princess of Asturias Award (2017) Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award (2016) Heinrich Mann Prize (2015) Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2004) Vilenica Prize (1996) Kościelski Award (1975)
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Adam Zagajewski 2014 in Stockholm.jpg
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- name in native language
- Adam Zagajewski
- Commons category
- Adam Zagajewski
- date of birth
- 1945-01-01
- floruit
- 2017-01-01
- date of death
- 2021-03-21
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Encyclopedic overview
Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist.
He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, and the 2018 Golden Wreath of Poetry at the Struga Poetry Evenings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adam Zagajewski” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.