We invite you to a meeting with Anna Piwkowska, winner of the 7th edition of the Kazimierz Hoffman National Poetry Competition for the KOS Statuette. The poet received the award for her poetry collection *Prześwity*.

Moderator: Dr. Karolina Sałdecka

“The landscape in this poetry is extraordinary—as real and verifiable in every detail as it is translucent, dissolving, and seen as if through a fogged-up window. In the gaps in the air, one senses the presence of the dead; they are right beside us. Eternity is as obvious as the garden through which the heroine of these poems wanders,” Iwona Smolka, excerpt from an essay (https://hoffman.kpck.pl/kos/).

Anna Piwkowska—poet and essayist. Author of twelve volumes of poetry, including *Furtianie* (2022) and *Prześwity* (2025), four essay collections about female poets, including *Wyklęta. Poezja i miłość Mariny Cwietajewej* (2017), *Beauty and Hell: A Story About Beata Obertyńska* (2021), as well as a novel. Winner of numerous awards, including the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw (2009, 2015), the K.I. Gałczyński “Orpheus” Poetry Award (2023), and the C.K. Norwid Literary Award (2020, 2023). She collaborates with radio, theater, film, and numerous literary periodicals. Her poems have appeared in, among others, *Więź*, *Res Publica*, *Twórczość*, *Kresy*, “Zeszyty Literackie,” “Odra,” “Tytuł,” “Czas Kultury,” and “Tygodnik Powszechny.” She was a fellow of the Polish Library in Paris (1999) and has received several fellowships from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. She is a member of the Polish PEN Club.

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KOS Poets: Prześwi(a)ty - Anna Piwkowska

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