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Wojciech Ligęza

Wojciech Ligęza

Literary scholar, critic, essayist, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, and head of the Department of the History of Polish Literature in the 20th Century. He mainly deals with Polish poetry of the twentieth century and émigré literature. Author of around 550 publications (dissertations, sketches, essays, reviews, columns, literary texts), including the books Jerozolima i Babilon. Miasta poetów emigracyjnych (Jerusalem and Babylon: Cities of Émigré Poets, Cracow 1998), Jaśniejsze strony katastrofy. Szkice o twórczości poetów emigracyjnych (Brighter Sides of the Disaster: Sketches on the Work of Émigré Poets, Cracow 2001), Świat w stanie korekty. O poezji Wisławy Szymborskiej (World Under Revision: On the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska, Cracow 2002), Bez rutyny. O poezji Wisławy Szymborskiej i Zbigniewa Herberta (Without Routine: On the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska and Zbigniew Herbert, Cracow 2016). He edited and introduced Wisława Szymborska's Wybór poezji (Selection of Poetry) for the National Library series in 2017. In 2008–2014, he was the vice-president of the Cracow branch of the Polish Writers' Association. Chairman of the committee in the Krystyna and Czesław Bednarczyk Prize, member of the Artistic Committee of the Documentary Forms Festival NURT in Kielce, Jury Member in the Wisława Szymborska Award (from 2018). Leaureate of many awards, among others, the Award from Turzański Foundation in Toronto (2001), the Individual Award from the Minister of National Education and Sports (2003), the Franciszek Karpiński National Literary Award (Białystok 2015). Decorated with the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture “Gloria Artis.”