Tadeusz Dąbrowski

Tadeusz Dąbrowski, born in 1979 in Elbląg, Poland, is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. He is the editor of the literary bimonthly Topos and artistic director of the Festival Europäischer Dichter der Freiheit (Festival of European Poets of Freedom). Dąbrowski is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently Środek wyrazu (2016). In Poland, his work has appeared in Tygodnik Powszechny, Gazeta Wyborcza, and Polityka. His poems have been translated into twenty languages.

Internationally, his work has been published in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Guernica, Poetry Ireland, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and Sinn und Form, among others. He has received numerous awards, including the Kościelski Prize (2009), the Hubert Burda Prize (2008), and the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Culture (2006). In 2010, he was nominated for the NIKE Literary Prize. His other poetry collections include: Wypieki (1999), e-mail (2000), mazurek (2002), Te Deum (2005, 2008), Czarny kwadrat (2009; in English: Black Square, 2011), Pomiędzy (2013), and Scrabble (2020). He also edited the anthology Poza słowa: Antologia wierszy 1976–2006 (2006). His second English-language poetry collection, Posts, was published in 2018. German translations of his poetry have appeared in the volumes Schwarzes Quadrat auf schwarzem Grund (2010), Die Bäume spielen (2014), and Wenn die Welt schläft (2022). Tadeusz Dąbrowski lives in Gdańsk on the Polish Baltic coast.