Julian Kornhauser

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Julian Kornhauser (born 20 September 1946 in Gliwice, Poland) is a Polish poet and literary critic.

He was born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, [1] as a son of Jakub and Małgorzata Kornhauser. He is an author of poems, novels and literary sketches. He also published translations of Serbian and Croatian poetry. At present, he works as a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Through his daughter Agata Kornhauser-Duda, his son-in-law is Andrzej Duda, President of Poland for the Law and Justice party. He is one of the most prominent representatives of the poetic New Wave of the 1970s and a co-founder of the literary group "Teraz".

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References

  1. "on Been and Gone, poems by Julian Kornhauser, translated by Piotr Florczyk (Marick Press) – On the Seawall".