Ryszard Wojnakowski
From 13 June to 11 July 2018

Born in 1956, Ryszard Wojnakowski is a Polish translator and editor. He studied German and Scandinavian Philology in Cracow. Between 1983 and 1993 he worked as an editor for a big publishing house. Since then a freelancer. He has translated more than one hundred books from German into Polish. In 2000 he initiated the Austrian contemporary lyric series, bilingual. He organizes workshops for students and young translators. He was awarded numerous grants and awards, among which the most important: the Karl-Dedecius-Preis 2009.