POLISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Jerzy Ficowski (1924-2006)
  2 Prose Pieces. Trans. Soren Alberto Gauger and Marcin Piekoszewski. Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation 13.1 (Spring 2005).

• "The Artificial Hen or the Gravedigger's Lover."
• The Passing Settlement."

  3 Poems. Trans. Ryszard Reisner. Ars Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation & Art 6 (Sept. 2006).

• "Kazakhstan ZSSR."
• "List of Telephone Subscribers, Warsaw, 1938-39."
• "The Queue."

  4 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).

• "August." Trans. W. Martin. 35.
• "Everything I Don't Know." Trans. W. Martin. 34.
• "The Road to Zuzela." Trans. W. Martin. 33.
• "Where the Łemkos Were." Trans. W. Martin. 35.

  5 Poems [in the order in which they appear on the page]. Trans. Yala Korwin. The HyperTexts.

• "A Prayer to the Holy Louse."
• "Jewish Effects."
• "A Girl of Six from the Ghetto Begging on Smolna Street in 1942."
• "Lamentation."
• "8-5-1942."

  5 Poems. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.

• "Ex-Jewish Things." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
• "From the History of Journalism." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
• "How to Spoil Cannibals' Fun." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
• "I'll Tell You a Story." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
• "Where the Lemkos Were." Trans. W. Martin.

  6 Poems. Holocaust Poetry. Ed. Hilda Schiff. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. 1995.

• "5.8.1942 In Memory of Janusz Korczak." Trans. Keith Bosley. 62-63.
• "The Assumption of Miriam from the Streets in the Winter of 1942." Trans. Keith Bosley. 36.
• "Both Your Mothers." Trans. Keith Bosley. 83-84.
• "The Execution of Memory." Trans. Keith Bosley. 121-122.
• "A Girl of Six from the Ghetto Begging in Smolna Street in 1942." Trans. Keith Bosley. 61.
• "I Did Not Manage to Save." Trans. Keith Bosley and Krystyna Wandycz. 86.

  "Before the Dawn." Trans. Antoni Gronowicz. The Polish Review 17.2 (Spring 1972): 85.
  The Gypsies in Poland: History and Customs. Warsaw: Interpress. 1989.
  A Hand for a Rookie Clock. Trans. Frank L. Vigoda. Riverside, CA: Vigoda Press. 2011.
  I Don't Know It's Too Late I Don't Want To. Trans. Frank L. Vigoda. Riverside, CA: Vigoda Press. 2012.
  "I'll Tell You a Story." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 109.
  A Reading of Ashes: Poems. Trans. Keith Bosley with Krystyna Wandycz. London: Menard Press. 1981.
  Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, a Biographical Portrait. Trans. Theodosia S. Robertson. New York: Norton. 2004.
  Sister of the Birds, and Other Gypsy Tales. Trans. Lucia M. Borski. Nashville, TN: Abingdon. 1976. Children's book.
  Songs of Ashes. Trans. Keith Bosley. Chesham, UK: Classical Recording Company. 1993. Julian Dawes, composer.
  Waiting for the Dog to Sleep. Trans. Soren A. Gauger and Marcin Piekoszewski. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press. 2006.

Julia Fiedorczuk (1975 - )
  2 Poems. Trans. Elżbieta Wócik-Leese. Biweekly.pl: Link with Culture. 18(2011). Audio also provided.

• "***Road. Exit."
• "***Road. Landing."

  "I Wish I Had a Master." Trans. Benjamin Paloff. Words without Borders.
   "November on the Narew." Trans. Tadeusz Pióro. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006).

Izabela Filipiak (1961 - )
  9 Poems [listed in order in which they appear on the page]. Izabela Filipiak's website.

• "Mme Intuita, Vampire-Killer, Grants an Interview." Trans. Karen Kovacik.
• "Chrysalis." Trans. Karen Kovacik.
• "Razor." Trans. Karen Kovacik.
• "Metamorphoses." Trans. not identified.
• "Mme Intuita Passing as a Phoenix." Trans. Karen Kovacik.
• "New Age Whore." Trans. Karen Kovacik and Izabela Filipiak.
• "Non Omnis Moriar . . ." Trans. Karen Kovacik.
• "Conversions." Trans. Karen Kovacik.
• "Madame Intuita." Trans. Karen Kovacik.

  Research Stories. Oakland, CA: Mills College. 2009. Thesis for M.F.A.

Kornel Filipowicz (1913-1990)
  "Silberstein Was Late." Polish Perspectives 29.3 (1986): 26-31.
  "A Speck of Dirt." Trans. Harry Stevens. The Modern Polish Mind. Ed. Maria Kuncewicz. London: Secker & Warburg. 1962. 28-36.
  "Victory." Trans. Jadwiga Zwolska. Contemporary Polish Short Stories. Ed. Andrzej Kijowski. Warsaw: Polonia Publishing. 1960. 155-167.
  "What Is in a Man?" Trans. Stephanie Kraft. Metamophoses. 10.2 (Fall 2002). [In the print edition: pp. 199-213]

Ida Fink (1921-2011)
  Readings of 3 stories from Traces. Jewish Stories from the Old World to the New. KCRW. Audio cassette or CD. 1998.

• "An Afternoon on the Grass." Read by Christina Pickles. Dir. Isaiah Sheffer. Program #5.
• "Death of Tsaritsa." Read by Christina Pickles. Dir. Isaiah Sheffer. Program #15.
• "Julia." Read by JoBeth Williams. Program #17.

  6 Stories. Trans. Madeline G. Levine and Francine Prose. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland. Ed. Antony Polonsky and Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska. Lincoln, NE: U Nebraska P. 2001.

• "* * * * * ." 173-174.
• "A Dog." 175-178.
• "Night of Surrender." 179-185.
• "A Scrap of Time." 167-172.
• "The Tenth Man." 186-188.
• "Traces." 189-191.

  "An Address." Trans. Philip Boehm. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.
  "In Front of the Mirror." Trans. Madeleine Levine. The Eagle and the Crow: Modern Polish Short Stories. Ed. Teresa Halikowska and George Hyde. London: Serpent's Tail. 1996. 146-149.
    The Journey. Trans. Joanna Weschler and Francine Prose. Multiple publishers.

•   New York: Plume. 1992, 1993.
•   London: Hamish Hamilton. 1992.
•   London: Penguin. 1992, 1994.
•   New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 1992.

  "The Key Game." Trans. not identified. Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture. 4.1 (1997).
  A Scrap of Time and Other Stories. Trans. Francine Prose and Madeline Levine. Multiple publishers.

•   New York: Pantheon. 1987.
•   London: Peter Owen. 1988.
•   Hammondsworth: Penguin. 1989.
•   New York: Schocken. 1989.
•   Evanston, IL: Northwestern U P. 1995.

  Traces. Trans. Philip Boehm and Francine Prose. New York: Metropolitan. 1997 and New York: Holt. 1998.

Darek Foks (1966 - )
  3 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).

• "In the Tower of Babel." Trans. Jamie Harmon Ferguson. 227.
• "Sarajevo in Flames." Trans. Jamie Harmon Ferguson. 225-226.
• "An Unsuccessful Attempt at Explaining the Fundamentals of Television to the Author of The Mannekin's Ball." Trans. Jamie Harmon Ferguson. 224-225.

  "Farewell, Haiku." Trans. Tadeusz Pióro. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006).
  "Why I Am not a Gravedigger." Trans. Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard. Edinburgh Review. Special issue: "Made in Poland: New Writing from Poland." 121 (2007): 146.

Marta Fox (1952 - )
  "All the Mornings of the World." Trans. Anna Gąsienica-Byrcyn. The Sarmatian Review 22.2 (Apr. 2002).

Anna Frajlich (1942 - )
  6 Poems. Trans. Regina Grol. Ambers Aglow: An Anthology of Contemporary Polish Women's Poetry. Ed. Regina Grol. Austin, TX: Host Publications. 1996. Polish and English.

• "The Children's Room in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem." 100-101.
• "The Difference." 108-109.
• "Here I Am." 104-105.
• "Majority of Votes." 102-103.
• "Reading Gibbon." 98-99.
• "Time Doesn't Heal." 106-107.

  8 Poems. Trans. Regina Grol-Prokopczyk. The Polish Review 20.4 (Autumn 1975).

• "Acclimitization." 95.
• "Autumnal Lullaby." 95.
• "A Ballad about a Duchess." 94.
• "Before Christmas." 93.
• "From Florence." 94-95.
• "On the Threshold." 93.
• "Santa Maria Ausiliatrice." 93-94.
• "A Song."

  Between Dawn and the Wind: Selected Poems. 2nd expanded ed. Trans. Regina Grol. Austin, TX: Host Publications. 2006.
  "From Nature." Trans. Regina Grol-Prokopczyk, from Between Dawn and the Wind. Austin, TX: Host Publications. 1991. Text in English and Polish. [Select "Read an Excerpt" at the bottom of the page to access the poem.]
  Indian Summer. Albany, NY: Sigma Press. 1982.

Stanisław Franczak (1946 - )
  2 Poems. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999.

• "In Auschwitz Museum with Fritz N." Trans. June Friedman. 113.
• "Perpetual Poem." Trans. June Friedman. 111-112.

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