Michał Paweł Markowski

Literary critic, essayist, columnist, Jagiellonian University professor, Head of the Department of International Polish Studies, Director of Arts Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Lecturer at Harvard and Northwestern Universities between 2002-2004. Author of many books on philosophy and literature, such as: "Anatomia ciekawości" (“The Anatomy of Curiosity”), “Występek. Eseje o pisaniu i czytaniu“ (“Misdeed. Essays on writing and reading”), “Czarny nurt. Gombrowicz, świat, literatura “ (“Black current. Gombrowicz, the world, literature”), “Nieobliczalne” (“Unpredictable”), “Polska literatura nowoczesna. Leśmian, Schulz, Witkacy“ (“Polish modern literature. Leśman, Schulz, Witkacy”). Winner of the Kościeliski Award and the Aleksander Brückner Award. He has translated the works of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derridy, Julia Kristeva, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Richard Rorty, Marcel Proust. For three years he presented programs on literature on public television.