Ireneusz Kania (19 September 1940 – 7 October 2023) was a translator, essayist and literary critic.
Biography The son of Stefan Kania, craftsman, and Wanda née Muszalska. From 1959 to 1964 he studied Romance philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Between 1964 and 1968, he worked as a proofreader, then as a technical editor and production inspector at the Kraków office of Polish Scientific Publishers PWN. From 1975 he worked at the Wydawnictwo Literackie, as editor and then deputy director of the Translation Section, where he was responsible for Iberian and Latin American literature. In 1978 he spent a month in Cuba. From 1980 to 1983 he was a member of Polish Writers' Union (ZLP). He translated from the following languages: English, German, Swedish, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.
Works Books
Translations into Polish Source: Bardo Thodol Mircea Eliade, Occultism, Witchcraft and Cultural Fashions
Awards Kraków Book of the Month Award for Muttavali. Księga wypisów starobuddyjskich (May 1999) Officer's Cross of the (2004) Kazimierz Wyka Award (2022)
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