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Magdalena Heydel, known also as Magda Heydel (born 12 December 1969), is a Polish philologist and translator.
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Magdalena Heydel, known also as Magda Heydel (born 12 December 1969), is a Polish philologist and translator.
Heydel was born on 12 December 1969 in Katowice. She graduated from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, with the degree of doctor of philology in 2001 [1] and doktor habilitowany in 2013. [1] She is now a lecturer at this same university. [2] Among her scholarly interests are Translation Studies, comparative literature and literary criticism. She is editor-in-chief of Przekładaniec. A Journal of Translation Studies. [3] She is active in the field of literary translation, translating both poetry and prose. She translated many works by Joseph Conrad, [4] Virginia Woolf, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot and Ted Hughes. [5] [6]
Together with Piotr Bukowski, she edited two Translation Studies anthologies in Polish: Contemporary Translation Theories (2009) [7] and Polish Concepts in Translation (2013).
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