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About the
authors |
Marek Bieńczyk was born in 1956. After
completing a M. A. in French literature at the Warsaw University he focused
on Polish literature at the Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish
Academy of Sciences, where he obtained a Ph. D. for his work on Zygmunt
Krasiński and a habilitation for essays on melancholy. One of the most
esteemed contemporary Polish novelists (Terminal and
Tworki,
translated into German and French), he also pursues a career as a translator
of Cioran and Kundera and as a literary critic (his books include Melancholy. On
those who will never regain their loss and Dürer's eyes. Essays
on romantic Melancholy). Wojciech Bońkowski
was born in 1976. He has two M. A. in musicology and Italian literature, and
is currently completing his Ph. D. on editions of Chopin's music at the
Institute of Musicology of the Warsaw University. He has translated Italian
poetry and prose for several art reviews in Poland, and is active as a music
critic. |