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Benjamin Paloff<\/strong> chairs the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, where he is also Professor of Comparative Literature and a faculty affiliate of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. His most recent books are Worlds Apart: Genre and the Ethics of Representing Camps, Ghettos, and Besieged Cities <\/em>(Columbia University Press, 2025) and Bakhtin’s Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning <\/em>(Northwestern University Press, 2025); vs Computer, <\/em>his third collection of poems, is forthcoming in 2026. He has translated about a dozen books and many shorter literary and theoretical texts from Polish, Czech, Russian, and Yiddish, notably works by Dorota Mas\u0142owska, Marek Bie\u0144czyk, Richard Weiner, and Yuri Lotman, and he has received grants and fellowships from the Michigan Society of Fellows, Stanford Humanities Center, and National Endowment for the Arts, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lead image: Anna and Jaros\u0142aw Iwaszkiewicz by Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz. 1922, photo credit \u00a9 Anna and Jaros\u0142aw Iwaszkiewicz Museum
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Each month, host David A. Goldfarb will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature series and the timeline.\nJaros\u0142aw Iwaszkiewicz (1894-1980) was one of the most important and prolific Polish writers across genres of the mid-twentieth century who stayed in Poland. He served for many years as editor of the journal Tw\u00f3rczo\u015b\u0107 and head of the Polish Writers\u2019 Union and Vice-President of the Polish PEN Club. He wrote several stories that made their way into films such as Andrzej Wajda\u2019s The Maids of Wilko and The Birch Grove as well as Jerzy Kawalerowicz\u2019s Mother Joan of the Angels. He wrote the libretto to Karol Szymanowski\u2019s opera King Roger. 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Pgs. 31-38.\nJaros\u0142aw Iwaszkiewicz. \u201cMother Joanna of the Angels\u201d (extract). The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy. Ed. and tr. Wiesiek Powaga. New York: Hippocrene, 1996. Pgs. 268-99.\nJaros\u0142aw Iwaszkiewicz. \u201cA New Love.\u201d The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. Ed. and tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. London: Penguin UK, 2025. \nAntonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by many of Poland\u2019s leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as classics, biographies, essays, crime fiction, poetry and children\u2019s books. She is best known for her translations of novels by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. One of her earliest translations was of works by Jaros\u0142aw Iwaszkiewicz, The Birch Grove and Other Stories (CEU Press). Her most recent publication is The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories, for which she selected and co-translated the 39 stories dating from 1925 to the present.\nBenjamin Paloff chairs the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, where he is also Professor of Comparative Literature and a faculty affiliate of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. His most recent books are Worlds Apart: Genre and the Ethics of Representing Camps, Ghettos, and Besieged Cities (Columbia University Press, 2025) and Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning (Northwestern University Press, 2025); vs Computer, his third collection of poems, is forthcoming in 2026. 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