Adam Czerniawski

Adam Czerniawski was born in 1934 in Warsaw. Now lives in Wales. Successively, worked in journalism, taught philosophy, administered The British Centre for Literary Translation at The University of East Anglia and The Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in Scotland. Publications in Polish include poetry, fiction and essays; publications in English include a memoir Scenes from a disturbed childhood, essays, The Invention of Poetry (translated by Iain Higgins) published by Salt,...See more

Adam Czerniawski was born in 1934 in Warsaw. Now lives in Wales. Successively, worked in journalism, taught philosophy, administered The British Centre for Literary Translation at The University of East Anglia and The Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in Scotland. Publications in Polish include poetry, fiction and essays; publications in English include a memoir Scenes from a disturbed childhood, essays, The Invention of Poetry (translated by Iain Higgins) published by Salt, and translations of Polish poetry, drama and philosophy. See less