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Krakow (AP) - The Polish poet and essayist Adam Zagajewski is dead. He died on Sunday evening at the age of 75 in Krakow (Krakow), as the PAP news agency reported, citing its publisher A5.
Among other things, his poem "Try to sing about the mutilated world", which the magazine "The New Yorker" printed after the terrorist attacks in the USA on September 11, 2001, became famous.
His death was a "great loss for Polish literature," wrote Poland's President Andrzej Duda on Twitter.
The poet was born in 1945 in what is now Lviv, Ukraine.
After studying psychology and philosophy, he joined the poet formation “Nowa fala” (New Wave), who wanted to break with traditional conventions.
In 1975 he signed the regime-critical "Letter of 59", which was directed against planned constitutional changes.
In 1982 Zagajewski emigrated to the West and settled in Paris.
Since 2002 he lived in Poland again.
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Zagajewski received numerous awards, including the Heinrich Mann Prize, the Eichendorff Literature Prize and the "Pour le mérite" order for science and the arts.
The poet, who was at times considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, had been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry since 2015.
Among other things, the volumes of poetry “Asymmetrie” and “Invisible Hand” as well as several collections of essays have been published in German translation.
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Report of the newspaper "Gazeta Wyborcza", in Polish