Portrait of Julia Hartwig

Julia Hartwig

Julia Hartwig (1921–2017) belonged to the great generation of Polish poets that included Czesław Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert, and Wisława Szymborska. In Poland she achieved something of a cult status, her public appearances and readings drawing large crowds. She was awarded numerous prizes in Poland, France, and the United States, including the Jurzykowski Prize and the Thornton Wilder Prize from the Translation Center at Columbia University, and the Austrian Georg Trakl Prize for poetry. Hartwig translated many American poets into Polish. She also translated poetry by Apollinaire, Rimbaud, Max Jacob, Cendrars, Supervielle, and Henri Michaux, and published studies of Apollinaire and Gerard de Nerval.

AGNI has published the following work:

THERE WERE TIMES for Suffering

Poetry by Julia Hartwig Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter

The Force and the Sweetness

Poetry by Julia Hartwig Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter

Sentence 1

Poetry by Julia Hartwig Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter

Whenever I Meet

Poetry by Julia Hartwig Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter

Everything to Measure

Poetry by Julia Hartwig Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter

On Translating Poems by American Authors

Poetry by Julia Hartwig Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
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