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Urszula Benka
was born in Wroclaw in 1955, where she studied psychology and Polish
Literature. She made her debut in 1975 in the local monthly cultural
revue Odra in 1975, and her poems were then published in various
magazines and newspapers. For the volume Chronomea (1977), Benka won
the Stanislaw Grochowiak Poetry Prize. Having left Poland for Paris in
the early eighties, Benka now lives in New York, but continues to
publish in Poland.
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| Anna
Czekanowicz was born in Sopot in 1952, and studied Polish
Literature at Gdansk University. She was a member of the Wspólnosc
group of poets in the late 1970s, and made her debut in 1976 with a
set of poems entitled Ktos kogo nie ma (Someone Who Isn't
There, Gdansk).
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| Aleksander
Jurewicz, poet and prose writer, was born in 1952 in Lida in
Belarus. In 1957 his family was expatriated to Poland and settled in
Gdansk. Jurewicz studied at the University of Gdansk and the
Screenplay Writing Department of the Lodz Film School. In the 1970s
and 1980s he published several volumes of strongly autobiographical
verse. Jurewicz first won fame with the publication of Lida (1990),
a work which earned him the Czeslaw Milosz Prize.
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| Krystyna Lars,
born in Elk in 1950, studied Polish Literature at the University of
Gdansk and was closely involved with the young writers in the Wspólnosc
group. She contributed to the local magazines Litteraria, Punkt,
and Autograf; she is the co-founder and now editor in chief of
the quarterly Tytul, also based in Gdansk. Since the late 1980s
Lars has had her own program on local radio, devoted to cultural and
literary themes. Her first poems were published in 1980.
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| Grzegorz Musial
was in Bydgoszcz in 1952, He studied medicine at the Medical Academy
of Gdansk, where he also became involved with the Wspólnosc
group and Maria Janion at the University of Gdansk. His first poems
were published in the mid seventies, but his first volume of poetry
appeared in 1978. He has also produced three semi-autobiographical
novels and, since his stay in America, is an enthusiastic and
accomplished translator of American verse including all of Allen
Ginsberg's work.
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