Jacek Dehnel

Who is Jacek Dehnel?

Jacek Dehnel in Gdańsk, Poland is a Polish poet, writer, translator and painter. Dehnel studied at Warsaw University in the MISH College and graduated from the Polish Language and Literature department. Dehnel is openly gay and lives in Warsaw.

His first collection of poems was the last book recommended by Polish Nobel Prize Laureate, Czesław Miłosz.

Dehnel has published his poems in various literary magazines, including Kwartalnik Artystyczny, Studium, Przegląd Artystyczno-Literacki, Topos, Tytuł, Undergrunt. He works also for an internet literary portal Nieszuflada.

Dehnel has translated poetry of such poets as Osip Mandelshtam, W. H. Auden, Mary Oliver - unpublished, and Philip Larkin, George Szirtes - published. He has also rendered in Polish lyrics for songs by Ástor Piazzolla.

He has been awarded literary prizes that include the Kościelski Award in 2005 and the Paszport Polityki in 2007.