Jakub Kornhauser

Jakub Kornhauser is a Polish poet, essayist, translator, editor, literary scholar, co-founder and employee of the Centre for Avant-Garde Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He has published five volumes of prose poetry (he received the Wisława Szymborska Award 2016 for Drożdżownia [The Yeast Factory]), several monographs on the European avant-gardes, as well as books translated from French, Romanian, and Serbian (including works by Henri Michaux, Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum and Miroljub Todorović). He recently published a collection of bicycle essays entitled Premie górskie najwyższej kategorii [Mountain climbs hors categorie] (2020), which earned him the Znaczenia Award and Gdynia Literary Prize nomination. He lives in Kraków, Poland.