Karol Lesman
From 11 August to 21 September 2021

Born in 1951, the son of a Dutch mother and a Polish father, the award-winning translator Karol Lesman studied Polish language and literature in both Amsterdam and Krakow. He has translated more than sixty books, both prose and poetry, which include works by the Nobel Prize winners Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska and Olga Tokarczuk. He lives and works between Amsterdam and Krakow. Currently he is working on the translation of Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel Ucho Igielne(The Eye of the Needle).