Jacek Dehnel

Jacek Dehnel (1980, Poland) is a Polish poet, writer, translator, and painter. His first collection of poems was the last book recommended by the Polish Nobel Prize winner, Czesław Miłosz. A prolific author of nine books of poems, five novels, several collections of short proses, columns and essays, Dehnel has also translated works of (among others) Philip Larkin, Henry James, Edmund White, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, J.M. Coetzee, Charles Dickens, and William Faulkner. His own works were translated into over a dozen languages. Dehnel has been awarded literary prizes that include the Kościelski Award and the Polityka Passport Award, and nominated for many others. Since 2020 he and his husband have lived in Berlin.