Anna FrajlichPoet · Scholar · Educator

Honors & Publications

Literary prizes, state honors and university medals, together with a selected bibliography of poetry, prose and scholarly books.

Anna Frajlich holding an hourglass award at a Columbia SIPA event

Honors

  • In 2023 Anna Frajlich received a Diploma from Encounter (The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize) for being a finalist with the book “My Father’s Name,” translated into Ukrainian by Vasyl Makhno.
  • In May 2022 she received a literary medal from Wschodnia Fundacja Kultury Akcent in Lublin, Poland, “to an outstanding poet and humanist in recognition of her impressive creativity on both sides of the Atlantic.”
  • The Oscar Halecki Prize of 2021 by the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) awarded her book The Ghost of Shakespeare: collected essays.
  • The Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award by The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA, 2021)
  • Szczecin University Medal awarded by Senate of Szczecin University, Poland, January 2020
  • Jubilee Medal of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, September 2020
  • Wybitny Polak (Distinguished Pole in the United States), 2017, in recognition of Frajlich’s many contributions to Polish culture. The award and diploma were presented at the Polish Consulate in New York City, on May 10, 2017.
  • Union of Polish Writers in Exile (London) Literature Prize, 2015. The citation states that her “literary roots lie deep in Polish, Jewish and American culture, but it is in the Polish language that she finds a safe haven and belonging…. Her work has a deep humanitarian dimension.”
  • Title of Honorary Ambassador to the City of Szczecin, 2008
  • W. & N. Turzanski Foundation (Toronto) Literary Prize, 2003. The committee acclaimed her work as one “of the most interesting phenomena in contemporary Polish poetry,” revealing “deep truth about the existence of an individual entangled in the tragic fate of contemporary civilization.”
  • Knight’s Cross of Order of Merit, awarded by the President of the Polish Republic, 2002
  • Union of Polish Writers in Exile (London) a distinction for a young poet, 1984
  • Kościelski Foundation (Geneva) Literary Award, 1981

Books

In Polish

  • W pośpiechu rzeka płynie. Szczecin: Forma, 2020.
  • łodzią jest i jest przystanią. Szczecin: Forma, 2013.
  • Znów szuka mnie wiat. Warszawa: Czytelnik, 2001.
  • W słoncu listopada. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2000.
  • Jeszcze w drodze, introduction by Mateusz Werner. Warszawa: NOWA, 1994.
  • Ogrodem i ogrodzeniem. Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1993.
  • Który las. London: Oficyna Poetów i Malarzy, 1986.
  • Indian Summer. Albany, NY: Sigma, 1982.
  • Tylko ziemia. London: Oficyna Poetów i Malarzy, 1979
  • Aby wiatr namalować. London: Oficyna Stanisław Gliwa, 1976.
  • Reprints of the first four books of poetry: Aby wiatr namalować/Tylko zemia (Szczecin: Fundacja Literatury imienia Henryka Berezy, 2016; Indian Summer/Który Las (Szczecin: Fundacja Literatury imienia Henryka Berezy, 2018).
  • Numerous publications in anthologies and textbooks.

Translations

  • ІМ’Я БАТЬКА Translated into Ukrainian by Vasyl Makhno, Видавництво «Крок» Тернопіль, Украна 2021
  • El Tiempo No Es Un Collar De Perlas translated into Spanish by Elzbieta Bortkiewicz,Sibiriana Ediciones, Zaragoza, 2021.
  • Un oceano tra di noi, bilingual, translated into Italian by Marcin Wyrembelski. Maddaloni: Parlesia Editore, 2018.
  • Between Dawn and the Wind, bilingual, expanded 2d ed., translated by Regina Grol Austin: Host, 1991; reprinted 2006.
  • Le vent, a nouveau me cherche, bilingual, translated into French by Alice-Catherine Carls, preface by Jan Zieliński. Soisy-sur-Seine: Editinter, 2003; reprinted 2012.

Prose Books

  • Szklany sufit języka (“Glass ceiling of language,” thirteen conversations, in Polish). Kraków: Austeria, 2025.
  • szymborska poeta poetów (szymborska poets’ poet), in Polish. Szczecin: Forma & Polski Fundusz Wydawniczy w Kanadzie, 2023.
  • The Ghost of Shakespeare: collected essays. Ed. Ronald Meyer. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020.
  • Laboratorium, expanded second edition, in Polish. Szczecin: Forma, 2018.
  • Czesław Miłosz. Lekcje. Prywatny Hołd (Czesław Miłosz. Lessons. A Personal Tribute). Szczecin: Forma, 2011.
  • Laboratorium, in Polish. Szczecin: Forma, 2010.

Letters

  • Felicja Bromberg, Anna Frajlich, Władysław Zajac. Po Marcu—Wiedeń, Rzym, Nowy Jork. Warszawa: Biblioteka Midrasza, 2008.

Scholarly Publications (Books)

  • The Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Silver Age. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
  • Between Lvov, New York, and Ulysses’ Ithaca. Józef Wittlin. Poet, Essayist, Novelist, edited by Anna Frajlich. Toruń: Nicholas Copernicus University, 2001.

Conference Proceedings

  • “Tu jestem / zamieszkuję własne życie”: Studia i szkice o twórczości Anny Frajlich, edited by Wojciech Ligęza and Jolanta Pasterska. Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2018