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Aleksander Fiut

Aleksander Fiut

Literary scholar, critic, essayist, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, and long-time head of the Department of the History of Polish Literature in the 20th Century. His interests include Polish contemporary literature, Central European literature, with particular emphasis on the borderline between literature, sociology, anthropology, and social psychology. One of the founding members of the Foundation of Czesław Miłosz Sites, a Program Board Member of the Milosz Institute at Claremont McKenna College. He lectured, among others, at universities in Lille, Berkeley, Bloomington, Skopje, Olomouc, Stockholm, Göttingen, Leuven, Rio de Janeiro, Oxford, and also at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna. Author of the first monograph on the work of Czesław Miłosz The Eternal Moment (Paris 1987; updated editions in 1993, 1998, 1999, and 2011), Rozmowy z Czesławem Miłoszem (Conversations with Czesław Miłosz; Cracow 1981; updated editions in 1988, 1994, 2003, 2011, as Czesława Miłosza autoportret przekorny), and other books devoted to Czesław Miłosz, Central European identity, and Polish literature from a postcolonial viewpoint. His interviews with Miłosz – sometimes jointly with Renata Gorczyńska’s interviews – appeared in translations into English, French, Italian, Croatian, Russian, Lithuanian, and Romanian. Fiut is a member of the Scientific Committee for the multi-volume edition of the Collected Works of Czesław Miłosz published by Wydawnictwo Literackie and Wydawnictwo Znak.