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Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki © Marta Sputowska
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Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (b. 1962 in Wólka Krowicka near Lubaczów) is the great outsider in contemporary Polish poetry. He is a poète maudit par excellence. His texts grow wild at the edge of language, telling of his mother’s schizophrenia, of the death of his friend, of the mouths of callboys and of Lublin brothels.
Tkaczyszyn-Dycki was influenced by Ukranian culture and language even as a child. These encounters have left their traces in his work to this day and express his fascination with sound and with language. His poems are an exciting blend of old-fashioned and contemporary Polish, in which words encompass fundamental and elementary human experiences such as sorrow, loneliness and death.
Tkaczyszyn-Dycki has received many prizes and awards for his 17 collections of poetry and one volume of prose, including the 2009 Nike Literature Prize, Poland’s most prestigious literary award.
Publications (in Polish):
Nenia i inne wiersze, 1990
Przewodnik dla bezdomnych niezależnie od miejsca zamieszkania, 2000
Zaplecze, 2002
Dzieje Rodzin Polskich, 2005
Piosenka o zależnościach i uzależnieniac, 2008
Oddam wiersze w dobre rece, 2010
Imię i znamię, 2011
Podaj dalej, 2012
Kochanka Norwida, 2014
Piosenka o zaleznosciach i uzaleznieniach, 2016
Awards:
Babara Sadowska Literature Award 1995
Award of the Deutsch-Polnische Literaturtage in Dresden 1998
Gdynia Literary Award 2006
Hubert-Burda-Preis 2007
Wrocław Poetry Award „Silesius“ 2012