Andrzej Slomianowski

Born 1943 in Lublin, Poland. Educated at Film and Theatre Academy in Lodz (1964). Poet, novelist, translator. Author of two novels, five poetry books and nuemerous translations, from English, German and Norwegian into Polish. He was the first to translate into Polish John Barth, Robert Lowell, W. S. Graham, Geoffrey Hill, William Cookson and Jan Erik Vold. Since 1973 he lives in the West - since 1983 in Germany.