POLISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Ewa Lachnit (? - )
No English translations of her work appear to be available at this time.

Krystyna Lars (1950 - )
  2 Poems. Trans. Daniel Bourne. Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties. Ed. Walter Cummins. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson U P. 1993.

• "Seven Scenes from the Life of Men." 312-316.
• "Those Who Come to Me in Dreams. 317-320.

  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.

• "Beautiful Shame." 214-217.
• "A Black Inscription." 206-207.
• "The Child Can Hear Us." 218-219.
• "Insomnia." 208-209.
• "Nakedness Loves Us." 212-213.
• "You." 210-211.

  10 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.

• "Black Uniform."
• "Cariatids."
• "City."
• "The Corner Room."
• "Giving Birth to a Knife."
• "The Guillotine Speaks to Danton."
• "Hotel" [excerpt].
• "The Last Compartment."
• "Public Baths" [excerpts].
• "That Was Me."

  10 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Young Poets of a New Poland: An Anthology. Lincoln Centre, MA: Forest Books. 1993.

• "Black Uniform." 8.
• "Cariatids." 7.
• "City." 10.
• "The Corner Room." 4.
• "Giving Birth to a Knife." 9.
• "The Guillotine Speaks to Danton." 13.
• "Hotel" [fragment]. 5-6.
• "It Was Me." 2-3.
• "The Last Compartment." 14.
• "Public Baths" [fragments]. 11-12.

Bogusława Latawiec (1939 - )
  57 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.

• "In the Snow." 226-227.
• "The 1990s." 222-223.
• "Those Dear to Us." 228-229.
• "Two Gardens." 224-225.
• "Two Rhythms." 220-221.

Lilla Latus (1960 - )
  3 Poems. Trans. Lilla Latus. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999.

• "Father Kolbe." 190.
• Untitled ["I speak to you . . ."] from the cycle "Conversations with Saint Maximilian Kolbe". 191.
• Untitled {'my grandfather . . ."]. 192.

Joanna Lech (1984 - )
  10 Poems from Nothing of This. Trans. Marek Kazmierski. OFF_Press. Polish and English.

• "Cracks." 5-6.
• "Darker, Through a Glass." 19-20.
• "Forecasts." 21-22.
• "Glimmers." 11-12.
• "Hunger." 3-4.
• "Intro." 17-18.
• "Meltdowns." 25-26.
• "Nothing More." 7-8.
• "Places." 23-24.
• "Trial by Air." 9-10.

  "Fibres." Trans. Ola Bilińska. Biweekly.pl: Link with Culture. 16(2011). Audio also provided.
  Nothing of This. Trans. Marek Kazmierski. London: OFF_Press. 2012. Polish and English.
  "The Sea Above, the Sky Below." Trans. Olga Maja Plocienniczak. Once upon a Deadline Writing Marathon.

Magda Leja [Maria Radecka] (1935-2006)
  "Jokes." Trans. Ewa Markowska. The Modern Polish Mind. Ed. Maria Kuncewicz. Boston: Little, Brown. 1962. London: Secker & Warburg. 1962. 190-205.

Stanisław Lem (1921-2006)
  The Official Stanisław Lem Site.

• Excerpts from his fiction:
  •    "Birnam Wood" from Fiasco. Trans. Michael Kandel.
  •    The Chain of Chance ; excerpt. Trans. Louis Iribarne.
  •    "A Country Funeral" from The Hospital of the Transfiguration. Trans. William Brand.
  •    Eden ; excerpt. Trans. Marc E. Heine.
  •    The Futurological Congress ; excerpt. Trans. Michael Kandel.
  •    Golem XIV ; excerpt. Trans. Marc E. Heine.
  •    Highcastle ; short excerpt. Trans. Michael Kandel.
  •   "How the World Was Saved" from The Cyberiad. Trans. Michael Kandel.
  •   The Investigation ; excerpt. Trans. not identified.
  •   The Invincible ; excerpt. Trans. Michael Kandel.
  •   Memoirs Found in a Bathtub ; excerpt. Trans. Michael Kandel.
  •   Memoirs of the Space Traveller ; excerpt. Trans. Michael Kandel.
  •   "Tale of [a] Machine That Fought a Dragon" from The Mortal Engines. Trans. Michael Kandel.
  •    Peace on Earth ; excerpt. Trans. Michael Kandel.
  •    Return from the Stars ; excerpt. Trans. Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson.
  •    Solaris ; excerpt. Trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Fox.
  •   "The 22nd Voyage" from The Star Diaries. Trans. not identified.
  •   Terminus ; excerpt. Trans. Louis Iribarne.
  
  
  
• Excerpts from his nonfiction:
  •    Dialogs. Trans. Frank Prengel.
  •    Science Fiction and Futurology. Trans. Robert Abernathy.
  •    Summa Technologaie. Trans. Frank Prengel.

  The Chain of Chance. Trans. Louis Iribarne. Evanston, IL: Northwestern U P. 2000.
  "A Challenging New World"; excerpt from A Blink of an Eye. Trans. Christina Manetti. Central Europe Review 3.13 (2 Apr. 2001).
  Cyberiad. Trans. Michael Kandel. New York: Harvest Books. 2002.
  Eden. Trans. Marc E. Heine. New York: Harvest Books. 1991. Reprint.
  Fiasco. Trans. Michael Kandel. New York: Harvest Books. 1988. Reprint.
  Highcastle: A Remembrance. Trans. Michael Kandel. New York: Harvest Books. 1997.
  His Master's Voice. Trans. Michael Kandel. New York: Harvest Books. 1984.
  Hospital of the Transfiguration. Trans. William Brand. New York: Harvest Books. 1991. Reprint.
  Imaginary Magnitude. Trans. Marc E. Heine. New York: Harvest Books. 1985.
  The Investigation. Trans. Adele Mich. New York: Harvest Books. 1986.
  The Invincible. New York: Ace Books. 1976.
  Memoirs Found in a Bathtub. Trans. Christine Rose and Adele Kandel. New York: Harvest Books. 1986.
  Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy. Trans. Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek. New York: Harvest Books. 1983.
  More Tales of Pirx the Pilot. Trans. Michael Kandel and Louis Iribarne. New York: Harvest Books. 1983.
  Mortal Engines. Trans. Michael Kandel. New York: Harvest Books. 1992. Reissue.
  One Human Minute. Trans. Catherine S. Leach. New York: Harcourt. 1986.
  Peace on Earth. Trans. Michael Kandel and Elinor Ford. New York: Harvest Books. 2002.
  A Perfect Vacuum. Trans. Michael Kandel. Evanston, IL: Northwestern U P. 1999. Reprint.
  Przekładaniec [Translated as "Layer Cake"]. Dir. Andrzej Wajda. 1968.
  "Reflections on My Life." Trans. Franz Rottensteiner. Four Decades of Polish Essays. Ed. Jan Kott. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern U P. 1990. 270-290.
  Solaris. Trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. New York: Harcourt. 2002.
  A Stanislaw Lem Reader. Ed. Peter Swirski. Evanston, IL: Northwestern U P. 1997.
  Stanisław Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel. Trans. Peter Swirski. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool U P. 2014.
  Summa Technologiae. Trans. Joanna Zylinska. Minneapolis, MN: U Minnesota P. 2014.
  Tales of Pirx the Pilot. Trans. Louis Iribarne. New York: Mariner Books. 1990. Reprint.
  "Thirteenth Voyage." From The Star Diaries. Trans. Harry Stevens. The Modern Polish Mind. Ed. Maria Kuncewicz. Boston: Little, Brown. 1962. London: Secker & Warburg. 1962. 423-438.
  "The Use of a Dragon." Trans. Wiesiek Powaga. The Eagle and the Crow: Modern Polish Short Stories. Ed. Teresa Halikowska and George Hyde. London: Serpent's Tail. 1996. 104-113.

Konrad T. Lewandowski (1966 - )
  "Noteka 2015." Trans. Brunon Stefański and Krzysztof Bartnicki. Anthology: Chosen by Fate. Ed. Elżbieta Gepfert, Grzegorz Kozubski, and Piotr W. Cholewa. Warsaw: SuperNova. 2000. 129-158.

Antoni Libera (1949 - )
  Madame: A Novel. Trans. Agnieszka Kolakowska. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2000.

Jerzy Limon (1950 - )
  The Chemistry of the Theatre: Performativity of Time. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2010.
  The Masque of Stuart Culture. Newark, DE: U Delaware P. 1990.

Ewa Lipska (1945 - )
  2 Poems. Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation 7.2 (Summer 1999). Trans. Clare Cavanagh.

• "2001." 100-101.
• "The Scents of Evil." 98-99.

  2 Poems. Trans. Karen Kovacik. Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties. Ed. Walter Cummins. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson U P. 1993.

• "A Courtesan Confesses." 289.
• "Honey." 288.

  3 Poems. Trans. Krystyna Piórkowska. The Polish Review 20.4 (Autumn 1975).

• "Examination." 100-101.
• "Forms." 101.
• "Such Times." 99.

  3 Poems. The New Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Collection. Ed. Milne Holton and Paul Vangelisti. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P. 1978.

• "Halloween for the Living." Trans. Krystyna Kamińska and Jarosz Maliszewski. 100-101.
• "If There Is a God." Trans. Elżbieta Maniusz and Marek Englender. 96-99.
• "Warning." Trans. Jolanta Raczko and Danuta Gabryś. 98-99.

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

• "Ericsson, Baby." Trans. Barbara Plebanek and Tony Howard. 116.
• "Mr. Schmetterling Thinks About a United Europe." Trans. Barbara Plebanek and Tony Howard. 115.
• "The Recently-Delivered Letters of Condolence . . ." Trans. Barbara Plebanek and Tony Howard. 114.
• "We 1998." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. 113.

  4 Poems. Trans. Magnus Kryński. Contemporary East European Poets: An Anthology. Ed. Emery George. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis. 1983.

• "If There is a God . . ." 148-149.
• "That Moment." 150.
• "What Happened to Professor White on Leaving the Hat Store." 149-150.
• "When our enemies fall asleep . . ." 148.

  6 Poems. Brindin Press. Texts in Polish and English.

•   "Confessions of a Courtesan." Trans. Ryszard J. Reisner.
•   "John Keats." Trans. Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard.
•   "Little Girl C." Trans. Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard.
•   "A Moment." Trans. Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard.
•   "My Translators." Trans. Ryszard J. Reisner.
•   "Unwillingly." Trans. Ryszard J. Reisner.

  6 Poems. Trans. Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.

•   "Indiscretion."
•   "A Juicer."
•   "The New Century."
•   "Number One."
•   "The Smells of Evil."
•   "A Splinter."

  7 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 Citizen of a Small Country." 230-233.
• "Forgive me . . ." 244-245.
• "From the Cycle: Great Emergencies (I)." 236-239.
• "An Imprecise Description of Loneliness." 242-243.
• "Luxury." 246-247.
• "Operating Instructions." 234-235.
• "Preposterousness." 240-241.

  8 Poems. Trans. and Ed. Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak. Ariadne's Thread: Polish Women Poets. Wayland, MA and London, UK: Forest Books. 1988.

• "Children." 70.
• "If God Exists." 68.
• "Manifesto." 67.
• "My Loneliness." 74.
• "On Shores." 72.
• "On War." 69.
• "Questions at a Poetry Reading." 73.
• "Witness." 71.

  9 Poems. Trans. Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska. Poetry International. Polish and English texts; audio readings of Polish originals.

•   "Calvin."
•   "Elsewhere."
•   "Fashion Craze."
•   "Helplessness."
•   "Newton's Orange."
•   "Newton's Orange: Infinity."
•   "No One."
•   "Pet Shops."
•   "Splinter."

  9 Poems. Trans. Ryszard J. Reisner. Ars Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation & Art. No. 5.

• "Cafe Museum."
• "Christmas Time."
• "Helplessness."
• "The Holy Order of Tourists."
• "If God Exists."
• "Juice Extractor."
• "A Slip of Attention."
• "Somewhere Else."
• "Somewhere There."

  10 Poems. Trans. Magnus J. Kryński. "Selected Poems by Ewa Lipska." Magnus J. Kryński. The Polish Review 25.3-4 (Summer-Autumn 1980): 70-77.

• "The Day of the Living." 76.
• "Dirty Words." 73.
• "Envoi." 77.
• "If There is a God." 71-72.
• "Learn Death." 75.
• "Misunderstanding." 73.
• "Nothing is Certain." 72.
• "That Moment." 76-77.
• "Warning." 74-75.
• "What Happened to Professor White on Leaving the Hat Store." 74.

  14 Poems. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.

• "Children." Trans. Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak.
• "Dictation." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
• "Envoy." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
• "From the Gulf Stream of Sleep." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
• "If God exists . . ." Trans. Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak.
• "Manifesto." Trans. Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak.
• "My Loneliness." Trans. Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak.
• "On Shores." Trans. Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak.
• "On War." Trans. Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak.
• "Questions at a Poetry Reading." Trans. Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak.
• "To Marianne Büttrich." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
• "The Wall." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
• "Witness." Trans. Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak.
• "We 1998." Trans. Clare Cavanagh.

  "The Beginning of the Week." Trans. Robin Davidson and Margret Grebowicz. Quarterly West 55 (Fall-Winter 2002-2003).
  "Hannah Arendt." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. AGNI 53 (2001).
  The Holy Order of Tourists. Trans. Ryszard Reisner. Stockholm: Ars Interpres. 2006.
  The New Century: Poems. Trans. Robin Davidson and Ewa Nowakowska. Evanston, IL: Northwestern U P. 2009.
  "Orchestra." Trans. Ryszard Reisner. Ars Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation & Art 7 (Sept. 2006).
  "Pet Shops" and Other Poems. Trans. Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard. Todmorgen, UK: ARC Publications. 2002.
  Poet? Criminal? Madman?: Poems. Trans. Barbara Plebanek and Tony Howard. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour. 1991.
  Such Times: Selected Poems. Trans. John Robert Colombo and Wacław Iwaniuk. Toronto: Hounslow Press. 1981.
  "A Young German at a Poetry Reading." Trans. Barbara Plebanek and Tony Howard. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 203.

Leo Lipski [Leo Lipschutz] (1917-1997)
  2 Stories. Trans. Christopher Garbowski. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland. Ed. Antony Polonsky and Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska. Lincoln, NE: U Nebraska P. 2001.

• "Roe Deer's Brother." 155-156.
• "The Wadi." 157-163.

Bogdan Loebl (1932 - )
No English translations of his work appear to be available at this time.

Mirosław Łebkowski (1922-2010)
  "Auschwitz (In Sonder Abteilung)." Trans. June Friedman. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 211.

Maria Łotocka (1944 - )
  "Auschwitz." Trans. June Friedman. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 212.

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