Bartłomiej Majzel was born in 1974 and lives in Katowice, where he works as an organizer of the annual arts and literature festival. He is a world traveller of some renown and has traversed on foot much of the Gobi desert. A bench in his honour is to be erected somewhere in the Sahara.
His publications include:
Zabraknie nam krwi (We’ll be Short of Blood) 1992
Robaczywošć (Vermination) (Bydgoszcz: Šwiadectwo, 1997)
Bieg zjazdowy (Downhill Race) (Kraków: Studium,2001)
Biała Afryka (White Africa) 2006
Doba Hotelowa (Staying in a Hotel for a Day) 2009
His new book called Terror will be published next year.
He received the Literature AwardNagroda IV Kolum Poetyckich for transgressing the horizons in poetry.
His poems have been translated into English, German, Swedish, Czech, Slovenian, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Serbian.
He works as an organizer of the annual arts and literature festival as well as being a presenter of radio programmes about music and culture. He is a world traveller of some renown and has traversed on foot much of the Gobi desert. A bench in his honour is to be erected somewhere in the Sahara.
