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Charles S. Kraszewski

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Charles S. Kraszewski (born 1962) is a Polish-American professor, Slavicist, and English translator from Polish, Czech, Slovak, Greek, and Latin; and translator from English into Polish.

Career

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In 2008-2011 Kraszewski was editor-in-chief of The Polish Review, the scholarly quarterly of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, headquartered in New York City.

His original poetry has been published in literary journals including Red River Review, Chaparral, Poetry South, and OVS. He has published two volumes of poetry: Beast (Plan B Press, 2013), and Diet of Nails (červená barva, 2013).

His critical works include Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz, CSP, 2012; and a collection of verse translations, Rossetti's Armadillo, 2013.

Kraszewski translates into English and Polish. His translations of T.S. Eliot and Robinson Jeffers into Polish have appeared in the Wrocław-based journal Odra.

Recognition

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  • Union of Polish Writers Abroad award (London, 2013).

See also

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References

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  • Directory [of] PIASA Members, 1999, New York City, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, 1999, p. 83.
  • Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, The Roots Are Polish, chapter: Eliot Would Understand, Toronto 2004, pg. 177-201, ISBN 0-920517-05-6