Czesław Ratka (born 1952) is a Polish engineer and translator.Zofia Zaleska, Półtorej oktawy na dzień. Rozmowa z Czesławem Ratką (in Polish). He graduated at Politechnika Śląska (Silesian University of Technology) in Gliwice.25 April 2014 Czesław Ratka winning Cervantes Award. He specialised in electronics.„Araukana” teraz po polsku (in Polish). He was especially concerned with hygrometry. He has been interested in Spanish language and literature for forty years. He is famous for translating two partsFlorian Śmieja, „Araukana” w tłumaczeniu Czesława Ratki (in Polish). of La Araucana (The Araucaniad) by the 16th-century Spanish poet Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533–1594). For this translation he was awarded with the Cervantes Institute Award.Inżynier elektronik Czesław Ratka odebrał Nagrodę Instytutu Cervantesa (in Polish).Aleksandra Lipczak, To wygląda na szaleństwo. Rozmowa z Czesławem Ratką, inżynierem elektronikiem i autorem przekładu chilijskiej epopei „Araukana” (in Polish).Premio de Traducción Literaria del Instituto Cervantes en Polonia (in Spanish). In his translation Czesław Ratka retained the ottava rima of the original. His version of the poem is regarded as excellent by critics and other translators, for example by Wojciech CharchalisMarta Natalia Wróblewska, „Tłumaczy się, co jest”. Wojciech Charchalis w „Świętach z tłumaczami” (in Polish). and Florian Śmieja.Joanna Sokołowska-Gwizdka: Naukowa wędrówka po hiszpańskojęzycznej literaturze (in Polish). Czesław Ratka's work was compared to Piotr Kochanowski's translation of Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso (1618).Czesław Ratka and his "Araucana."
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