Ewa Sonnenberg (born 1967) is a Polish poet, pianist, essayist and academic who has won several awards for her work.
In 1990, she was in a car accident in which her hands were badly damaged, raising doubts about her ability to pursue a career as a pianist at a high level.
Sonnenberg made her home in Wroclaw and organized cultural evenings in which she would play the piano and recite her poetry, later inviting other performers to join her.
Her poems have been translated from Polish into English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Turkish, Russian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Slovak, Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Italian and Ukrainian.
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] For her volume Hazard, Sonnenberg received the Georg Trakl Award in 1995, granted by a jury chaired by Maciej Słomczyński.