Anna Blasiak is a poet, translator, journalist and managing editor of the European Literature Network. Anna writes poetry in Polish and in English. She published two bilingual poetry and photography books (with Lisa Kalloo): Kawiarnia przy St James’s Wrena w porze lunchu / Café by Wren’s St-James-in-the-Fields, Lunchtime (2020) and Deliverance / Rozpętanie (2024). She also published a book-length interview Lili. Lili Stern-Pohlmann in conversation in Anna Blasiak (2020).
Anna has translated over 50 books from English into Polish and some fiction from Polish into English – by Mariusz Czubaj, Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Jan Krasnowolski, Kaja Malanowska, Daniel Odija, Mirka Szychowiak, Irit Amiel and Renia Spiegel (some as Anna Hyde). She has recently translated According to Her by Maciej Hen, which was shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize 2023. Her translation of grpahic novel Stolp by Daniel Odija and Wojciech Stefaniec was shortlisted for Trafika Europe’s Prize for Prose in 2025. She has translated into Polish poetry by Maria Jastrzębska, Mary O’Donnell, Nessa O’Mahony, Vesna Goldsworthy, Martina Evans, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, Tishani Doshi, Pascale Petit and other poets; and, into English, by Mirka Szychowiak, Edward Pasewicz, Rafał Gawin, Robert Kania, Joanna Fligiel, Małgorzata Południak. Last year she published two book-length poetry translations: Aneta Kamińska’s Czernovitz-Charmovitz (co-translated with Bohdan Piasecki, Arc Publications) and Łucja Dudzińska’s Mis-Concern. Attempts at Expression (FONT). Her translation of Radosław Wiśniewski’s Psalm to Saint Sabina won the inaugural Trafika Europe’s Andrew Singer Prize for Verse in 2025. In addition to her book-length translations, her work has been published in Best European Fiction 2015, Asymptote, The Guardian, B O D Y Literature, York Literary Review, Anomaly, The High Window and Modern Poetry in Translation. Anna has worked in museums and a radio station, run magazines, written on art, film and theatre. She has worked in museums and a radio station, run magazines, written on art, film and theatre. She regularly reviews books in translation for the European Literature Network, where she also runs a monthly poetry column Poetry Travels, as well as a blog devoted to Polish literature called The Polka. She is one of the editors of Babiniec Literacki, a Polish platform publishing poetry written by women. She recently started as the Head of Literature at the Polish Cultural Institute in London. In 2025 she also launched her own publishing house, Sideways Press.
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