Marek Kazmierski

Marek Kazmierski
Born	Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	British, Polish
Occupation	Writer, translator, editor

Marek Kazmierski (born 1973) a writer, editor and translator, specializing in literary translations from Polish into English.

In 1985 he escaped communist Poland as a child and settled in the UK. Joint winner of the Decibel Penguin Prize and sole recipient of the BIKE Magazine Philosopher of the Year award. Marek was also the managing editor of the prison literary magazine Not Shut Up, a member of the English PEN Readers & Writers committee and founded of OFF PRESS, an independent publishing house which has worked with the British Council, English PEN, the Southbank Centre, the Polish Cultural Institute and the Mayor of London. His work has been published in numerous journals, including The White Review,The Guardian, 3AM Magazine and Poetry Wales. He is also a recipient of the Visegrad Literary Grant residency at Villa Decius in Krakow, Poland, courtesy of The Polish Book Institute, and coordinated the Polish Arts Festival in Essex and was involved in developing the academic research project eMigrating Landscapes at the SSEES, University College London.

In 2016, Kazmierski was welcomed as a trustee to The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry.

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