Krystyna Lenkowska
Krystyna Lenkowska (born 1957) is a Polish writer and translator. She has published one novel and several volumes of poetry. Three of her books have appeared in the bilingual Polish-English editions: "Keep off the Primroses" (1999), "Eve’s Choice" (2005) and "An Overdue Letter to a Pimply Angel" (2014), one in the Polish-Ukrainian edition: "Турбота ("Lvov 2014) and two in the Polish-French editions: "Fragment de dialogue" (2017 L’Harmattan, Paris, France) and "Carte Orange" (2017 Kraków, Poland). Her poems, fragments of prose, translations, essays, literary notes and interviews have been published in numerous journals and anthologies  in Europe (mostly Poland), North and South America and Asia. Her poem "The Eye of John Keats in Rome" won the first prize at the Sarajevo international poetry competition “Seeking a Poem” for the year 2012. In 2013 Lenkowska received the Menada prize at the XVII International Festival of Poetry Ditet e Naimit (North Macedonia-Albania). She has been included in the most representative anthology of Polish women poets "Scattering the Dark" (White Pine Press 2016, Buffalo-New York). In 2019 in Bhubaneswar, India she was awarded 3 place in the 39 World Congress of Poets. Her translation of poems  by Emily Dickinson, the Brontës, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, Ruth Padel, Dana Gioia have been published in the literary Polish journals and books. Lenkowska is a member of the Association of Polish Writers (SPP), Polish Literary Translators Association (STL) and The Author’s Association ZAiKS. Career as a writer. Her poems, fragments of prose, translations, essays, notes and interviews have been published in literary magazines in Poland including: Akcent, Fraza, Nowa Okolica Poetów, Odra, Pobocza, Pracownia, Przekrój, Topos, Twórczość, Tygiel, Wyspa, Zeszyty Literackie, and Znad Wilii. In the US, in Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough’s translation, some of her poems have  appeared in Absinthe, Boulevard, Chelsea, Confrontation, The Normal School, and Spoon River Poetry Review. In Ukraine, she debuted in Pektoral and in the anthology The Poems of Kraków, in Evgen Baran’s translation. Her poems have also appeared in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, India, Israel, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Mongolia, Romania, Slovakia, and Taiwan. The poem "The Eye of John Keats in Rome" received the first prize at the international competition in Sarajevo "Seeking for a Poem" for the year 2012. In 2013, the poet received the second prize “Menada” at the international festival of poetry DITET E NAIMIT  (XVII edition in Macedonia and Albania). Music lyrics. Lenkowska is the author of lyrics recorded by Beata Czernecka from “Piwnica pod Baranami”, Bożena Boba-Dyga, Zbigniew Działa (RSC) and Paweł Czachur (Ratatam). She is a member of the Association of Polish Writers (SPP), ZAiKS, POETAS DEL MUNDO and LAI (Institute for Literature). She lives in Rzeszow. Associations. She is a member of ASSOCIATION OF POLISH WRITERS (SPP), POLISH LITERARY TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION (STL), ZAiKS.