Resident

Aleksander Kaczorowski
From 5 September to 19 May 2018

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Born in 1969, Aleksander Kaczorowski is a Polish author and translator of the Czech literature. His recent books include Hrabal. Słodka apokalipsa [Hrabal. A Sweet Apocalypse] (2016) and Havel. Zemsta bezsilnych [Havel. A Revenge of the Powerless] (2014). He also translated works by Bohumil Hrabal, Josef Škvorecký, Egon Bondy, Peter Demetz and Helga Weiss. He won Ambassador of New Europe Prize (2015) for his biography of Václav Havel and Václav Burian Prize (2016) for cultural contribution to the Central European dialogue.