Name Bogdan Czaykowski Awards Koscielski Award | Role Poet | |
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Books Polish writing in Canada, Full moon and summer solstice | ||
Bogdan Czaykowski (b. 1932, Poland; d. 2007, Canada) was a Polish Canadian poet, essayist, literary translator and literary critic, professor emeritus and former Dean at the University of British Columbia. He wrote numerous articles in academic journals and literary magazines, and was the subject of literary research papers. Czaykowski received the Killam Prize in 1996, including Polish literary awards: Fundacja Turzanskich (1992), Fundacja Koscielskich (1964) and others.
His poetic debut was in the monthly Kultura paryska ("Kultura" Literary Institute, Paris, 1955). Czaykowski published also many essays on other writers and literary subjects.
Published books of poetry
• Trzciny czcionek (London, 1957); • Sura (London, 1961); • Spor z granicami (Paris, 1964); • Point-no-Point (Paris, 1971); • Wiatr z innej strony ( Krakow, 1990); • Okanaganskie sady ( Wroclaw, 1998, ISBN 83-7023-633-2); • Jakies ogromne szczescie (Cracow, 2007, ISBN 978-83-240-0826-1).
In anthologies: • Ryby na piasku (London, 1965); • Postwar Polish Poetry (New York, 1965); • Een Gevecht om Lucht (Maasbree, 1979); • The Burning Forest (Bloodaxe, 1988); • Panorama der Polnishen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts (Zurich, 1996); Scanning the Century: the Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry (London, 1999).
He was a frequent contributor to many literary journals and magazines, including Kultura (Paris), Kontynenty (London), Fraza (Rzeszow), Strumien (Vancouver), Tworczosc (Warsaw) and others.
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