Resident

Krystyna Dąbrowska
From 22 June to 28 July 2021

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Krystyna Dąbrowska is a Polish poet, essayist and translator. She holds an MA from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and is the author of four books of poetry. Her second published collection, Białe krzesła(WBPiCAK, 2012), won the Kościelski Award and the Wisława Szymborska Award in 2013. Her fourth collection, Ścieżki dźwiękowe(Wydawnictwo a5, 2018), was the winner of the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw in 2019. Her poems have been translated into nineteen languages. Her own translations into Polish include the poetry of W. C. Williams, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Thom Gunn, Charles Simic, and Kim Moore.