Pilch Jerzy:
The Mighty Angel
Translator: BillJohnston
Open Letter Books; Univ Of Nebraska Press , 2009
Hardcover, 155 pages
Size: 217x146 mm
ISBN: 9781934824085
ISBN-10: 1934824089
Jerzy Pilch
Jerzy Pilch Is One Of Poland's Most Important Contemporary Writers And Journalists. In Addition To His Long-Running Satirical Newspaper Column. Pilch Has Published Several Novels, And Has Been Nominated For Poland's Prestigious Nike Literary Award Four Times; He Finally Won The Award In 2001 For The Mighty Angel. His Novels Have Been Translated Into Many Languages, And In 2002, Northwestern University Press Published His Current Woman, Pilch's Only Other Book In English Translation.
Bill Johnston
Bill Johnston Is Director Of The Polish Studies Center At Indiana University. In Addition To Jerzy Pilch, He Has Translated The Work Of Witold Gombrowicz, Magdalena Tulli, And Stefan Zeromski, Among Others. In 1999 He Received A National Endowment For The Arts Poetry Fellowship For Translation, In 2005 He Was Awarded A National Endowment For The Humanities Fellowship, And In 2008 He Won The Inaugural Found In Translation Award--Presented Annually To The Translator Of The Finest Polish-English Literary Translation Of The Year--For Tadeusz Rozewicz's New Poems.
