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Jerzy Peterkiewicz, translator and novelist, is dead
Friday, 2 Nov 2007
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Jerzy Peterkiewicz, the Polish-born translator and novelist, died in October at the age of 91. For Carcanet, with his one-time wife Christine Brooke-Rose and with Burns Singer (both Carcanet authors) he translated the poetry of Cyprian Norwid. He also translated the poetry of Pope John Paul II. His first English novel, The Knotted Cord (1953), which of all his novels meant most to him, was partly autobiographical: a story of a boy dedicated by his mother to St Anthony and who dressed him for three years in Franciscan habits. In the 1950s and 1960s he was regarded as an outstandingly talented new novelists. He arrived in Britain in 1940 as a wartime refugee from Poland. From 1952 to 1972 Peterkiewicz was Lecturer, then Reader, in Polish Literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London. He produced in 1970, with Burns Singer, Five Centures of Polish Literature. In 1995 the President of Poland, Lech Walesa, awarded Peterkiewicz the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. |
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