Authors of published texts: Marian Pankowski

About the author

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• Marian Pankowski

  Marian Pankowski (born November 9, 1919, in Sanok – died April 3, 2011, in Brussels) was a Polish writer, poet, translator, and professor of literature. He studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University and, after the war, continued his education in Belgium, where he taught Polish literature at the University of Brussels.

• Pankowski’s work is a literary rollercoaster: provocative, corporeal, at times blasphemous, and always uniquely his own. He blended grotesque with lyricism, flesh with spirit, and sacred with profane – all with a flair that captivated some and scandalized others. His prose often balanced on the edge of moral subversion and poetic confession, his language like a whisper of a confessor mixed with a street actor’s shout.

  One day, he stopped in front of our gallery window, having noticed Golgotha – a sculpture by Leszek Jasiński. He stepped inside to learn more about the artist. He was shaken – he sensed how much he shared with the sculptor: a painful verism, an approach to religious themes. I asked him to write something for us – anything.

  A month later, he sent us a text. Written on a library index card. Short. Essential. Priceless.

  Awards and distinctions: Kościelski Foundation Award (1962), Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2008).

• Selected publications

  • Pieśni pompejańskie (Bruksela 1946)
  • Wiersze alpejskie (Bruksela 1947)
  • Teatrowanie nad świętym barszczem (Londyn 1968)
  • Nasz Julo czerwony i siedem innych sztuk (Londyn 1981)
  • Zygmunt August. Teatrowanie na użytek ludzi sceny i filmu (Londyn 1986)
  • Smagła swoboda (Paryż 1955, Warszawa 1980)
  • O uprawie przyjaźni w: Księga pamiątkowa Gimnazjum Męskiego w Sanoku 1888-1958 (Kraków, 1958)[38]
  • Matuga idzie (1959)
  • Kozak i inne opowieści (Bruksela 1965)
  • Granatowy Goździk (Londyn 1972)
  • Rudolf (1980, 1984, 2005)
  • Gość (Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, Lublin 1989)
  • Powrót białych nietoperzy (1991)
  • Pątnicy z Macierzyzny (1985, Lublin 1987, Kraków 2007)
  • Putto (Poznań 1994)
  • Z Auszwicu do Belsen (2000)
  • W stronę miłości (2001)
  • Bal wdów i wdowców (Kraków 2006)
  • Ostatni zlot aniołów (Warszawa 2007)
  • Była Żydówka, nie ma Żydówki (2008)
  • Niewola i dola Adama Poremby (2009)
  • Tratwa nas czeka (2010)
  • Nastka, śmiej się! (2013)