Born to a Polish father and a Russian mother, Julia Hartwig (1921-2017) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and author of children's books. She studied at the University of Warsaw, the Catholic University in Lublin and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Czesław Miłosz called her 'the grande dame of Polish poetry'. Julia Hartwig was one of the few poets in Poland who made masterly use of poetic prose. She translated poems by Apollinaire, Rimbaud, Max Jacob, Cendrars and Supervielle, and published monographs on Apollinaire and Gerard de Nerval. She also translated from English, and published a large anthology of American poetry which she co-edited in 1992 with her late husband, the poet Artur Międzyrzecki.

Title: Brodski

Listeners: Andrzej Wolski

Tags: Nobel Prize, PEN Club, Aleje Ujazdowskie, Iosif Brodski, Artur Międzyrzecki, Stanisław Pruszyński, Joseph Brodsky

Duration: 42 seconds

Date story recorded: June 2010

Date story went live: 16 October 2011