Marek Kedzierski

Marek Kedzierski (born September 9, 1953, in Łódź) is a writer, translator, literary critic, theatre director, organizer of international festivals.

He is the son of a clerk and an office worker and grandson of Captain Antoni Maksymilian Kędzierski (1900–1948), one of the first Legionnaires, a participant of the Resistance in France during World War II.

In academic criticism (1979–2008), his main field was oriental literature, modern writers and visual artists of the West, especially Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Alberto Giacometti,[6] Francis Bacon,[7] Louise Bourgeois,[8] Harold Pinter, Robert Pinget,[9] and David Mamet.

As a translator, he has rendered into Polish works of Samuel Beckett (Watt, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, some other prose texts and Beckett's plays which he produced on stage, including Endgame, Happy Days) and Thomas Bernhard (5 novels), as well as of H. Pinter,[10] R. Pinget, and excerpts of works by writers, artists, philosophers and critics (e.g. M. Walser, D. Rabinovich, A.Giacometti, G. Deleuze,  M.Leiris,[11] J. Dupin, D. Sylvester, B. Bray) as well as one novel by the Slovak writer Jana Bénova, Café Hyena (Nisza Publ.

Since 1996, he has been contributing editor to the journal Kwartalnik Artystyczny in Bydgoszcz/Torun, Poland,[12] for which he has prepared numerous special issues devoted to the aforementioned writers and artists, notably Giacometti,[13] the first Polish book publication on the Swiss sculptor.

[17] In the years 1996–2017, he organized and co-organized (in France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Sweden) theater festivals and meetings devoted mainly to Beckett's work[5].

Borges, in Germany (Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Villa Musica Mainz, E-Werk Freiburg), in the U.S.(Push-Push Theater Atlanta), in France (Le Colombier Paris, La Coupole St. Louis), and in Sweden (Helsingborgs Stadsteater).

[21] After the Irish playwright's death, Kedzierski befriended Barbara Bray, a BBC radio producer, critic and translator who had played a major role in Beckett's intellectual and private life.