Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Wioletta Greg
Born(1974-02-09)9 February 1974
Koziegłowy, Poland
Occupation(s)Poet, writer

Wioletta Grzegorzewska, or Wioletta Greg (1974) is a Polish poet and writer nominated for The Man Booker Prize.[1]

Life

Wioletta born in a small village Rzeniszów in Jurassic Highland in Poland. In 2006, she left her country and moved to the Isle of Wight. She spent there ten years in Ryde. She lives now in Lewes.

Works

Between 1998 – 2012 she published several poetry volumes, novels as well as a novella Swallowing Mercury,[2] in which she's covering her childhood and the experience of growing up in Communist Poland. Senior editor Max Porter from Portobello Books said:

Swallowing Mercury[3] is an enchanting and intriguing book. Wioletta Greg is a poet and every line of this haunting autobiographical novella has its own weird, beautiful atmosphere. It reminded me of Evie Wyld, Ludmila Petrushevskaya and Herta Muller."[4]

Greg's short stories and poems[5] have been published in: Asymptote,[6] The Guardian,[7] Litro Magazine, Poetry Wales, Wasafiri, The White Review.[8]

Her poetry book Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance has been shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.[9] "Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize!"]. The judges said:

"These poems retain the force of first experience and, equally, a collection of history’s remains. Greg’s thoughts include the catastrophe of the 20th century whose marks still wobble before her eyes, and the experience of living in post-Communist Poland. This stunning collection shows us (mostly through the eyes and memories of childhood) a world of objects transported across years. ‘Tossing satin bulbs into wicker baskets,’ the child poet is at ease with the earth and the hardy objects made from it. Greg grants us the privilege of seeing what she saw before she saw more."[10]

In 2012 an Arts Council-funded audio recording project of the British Library, Between Two Worlds: Poetry and Translation, recorded her poetry.[11] Her poems have been translated into English, Italian, German,[12] Catalan,[13] Serbian, Spanish, and Welsh.

Books

Poetry

  • Wyobraznia kontrolowana, Częstochowa, 1998
  • Parantele, Częstochowa, 2003
  • Orinoko, Tychy, 2008. ISBN 83-88415-77-8
  • Inne obroty, Polish-Canadian Publishing Fund and Fraza, Toronto and Rzeszów, 2010, ISBN 978-0-921724-59-9
  • Ruchy Browna, Częstochowa, 2011
  • Smena's Memory. Collected Poems, London: Off_Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9563946-8-2
  • Finite Formulae and Theories of Chance, Arc Publications 2014, ISBN 978-1908376-91-6 (shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize
  • Czasy zespolone, Wydawnictwo Eperons-Ostrogi, Krakow 2017, ISBN 9788394647148

Prose

Anthologies[16]

  • Scattering the Dark: An Anthology of Polish Women Poets, ed. Karen Kovacik, Buffalo, New York: White Pine Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1935210825

Awards for books

Swallowing Mercury[17] (Portobello Books, translated by Eliza Marciniak);

  • Shortlisted for The National Translation Award, Swallowing Mercury, trans. by Eliza Marciniak;
  • Shortlisted for The Griffin Poetry Prize in Canada, Finite Formulae and Theories of Chance (Arc Publications, translated by Marek Kazmierski);
  • Shortlisted for The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in the United

Kingdom, Swallowing Mercury;

  • Shortlisted for The Michalski Prize in Switzerland, Swallowing Mercury;
  • Shortlisted for The Nike Award in Poland, Guguły;
  • Shortlisted for The Gdynia Award in Poland, Guguły;
  • Shortlisted for The Prix Pierre-François Caillé in France, Les Fruits encore

verts (the Editions Intervalles, translated by Nathalie Le Marchand):

  • Award of the City Czestochowa in Poland in the fields of culture.

References

  1. ↑ "Swallowing Mercury | the Booker Prizes".
  2. ↑ Verzemnieks, Inara (22 November 2017). "A Form of Literary Alchemy That Resurrects the Past". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ "Wo Borkenkäfer Völkerball spielen: Wioletta Grzegorzewskas Guguły", Novinki.
  4. ↑ Joshua Farrington, "Greg novella to Portobello", The Bookseller, 11 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Brittany Krier, "A review of Wioletta Greg’s Finite Formulae and Theories of Chance (Arc Publications, 2014)", 3 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "Translation Tuesday: On the River Boży Stok by Wioletta Greg", Asymptote, 8 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Translation Tuesday: On the River Boży Stok by Wioletta Greg", The Guardian, 8 December 2015.
  8. ↑ Wioletta Greg, "The Bees", The White Review, January 2016.
  9. ↑ "Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize!". www.polishculture.org.uk. Archived from the original on 18 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Griffin Poetry Prize: Wioletta Greg".
  11. ↑ "Wioletta Grzegorzewska reading - Between Two Worlds: Poetry and Translation - Arts, literature and performance". British Library - Sounds.
  12. ↑ "(S+) Im Zwielicht". Der Spiegel. 26 January 2018.
  13. ↑ "Lliçons de natació"
  14. ↑ "Granta Books".
  15. ↑ "Accommodations | Washington Independent Review of Books".
  16. ↑ "Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg review – a Polish childhood". TheGuardian.com. 6 January 2017.
  17. ↑ Verzemnieks, Inara (22 November 2017). "A Form of Literary Alchemy That Resurrects the Past". The New York Times.
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