Aleksander Nawrocki
(*1940) Poland
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Aleksander Nawrocki majored in Polish and Hungarian Philology at the University of Warsaw. He writes poetry, prose, literary reviews, and translates Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Finnish, Georgian, Serb, German, English and French to Polish. He is the author of more than eleven collections of poems and two novels. In 1992, he established the publishing house IBiS, focusing on Polish and foreign poetry. Starting in 2001, he has organized the World Days of Poetry under the auspices of UNESCO and Polish Ministry of Culture and since 2008, he has been organizing Festival for Slavic Poetry. As a businessman who is active in a hotel industry, he has generously provided financial support to young writers and poets since 1990. Along with the numerous awards and accolades, he has also received Golden Cross of Merit.
