Leszek Engelking, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leszek Engelking

Polish writer and translator

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1955

Place of Birth: Bytom, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: writer, poet, translator, literary critic, linguist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Leszek Engelking (born 2 February 1955, Bytom, Upper Silesia) is a Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator. He graduated from Warsaw University (1979).
He received his doctorate in 2002, his postdoctoral degree in 2013.
From 1984-95, he was a member of an editorial staff of "Literatura na Swiecie" ("Literature in the World"), a Polish monthly devoted to foreign literature.
From 1997–98, he was a lecturer at Warsaw University and a visiting professor at Palacký University, Olomouc (Czech Republic).
He now teaches at the University of Lódz (http://www.kulturoznawstwo.uni.lodz.pl/pracownicy). He is a member of Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich (Association of Polish Writers; since 1989) , the Polish PEN Club (since 2000) and of the Société Europeénne de Culture (since 1994).