Aleksander Fiut


Aleksander Fiut is a Polish literary historian, literary critic and essayist who researched the works of Wilhelm Mach and Czesław Miłosz, among others.

Biography

Son of the civil servant Władysław Fiut and Jadwiga née Jakubiec. Between 1959 and 1963, he attended the Nicolaus Copernicus Grammar School in Żywiec. Later he studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and graduated with a master's degree in 1968. He started working at Kraków's public library. In 1974, he defended his doctoral thesis Twórczość prozatorska Wilhelma Macha, which was supervised by. In 1987 he obtained a habilitation degree for his study Moment wieczny. O poezji Czesława Miłosza.
In 1996, he was made a state appointed professor and associate professor at the Jagiellonian University. Between 1997 and 2015, he held the Chair of Twentieth-Century Polish Literature at the Institute of Polish Studies at UJ.
His research interests include contemporary Polish literature, Central European literature, with emphasis on the intersection of literature and sociology, anthropology and social psychology. He supervised three doctoral dissertations.
He was a member of the Polish Writers Association until August 2020. He was a founding member of the Czesław Miłosz Birthplace Foundation, which was established in 1997 at the University of Kaunas in Lithuania.
He became a member of the Slavic Culture Commission and the Literary History Commission of the Polish [Academy of Arts and Sciences]. He was a member of the Program Council of the Miłosz Institute at Claremont McKenna College.

Books

  • Co-authored with vel Ewa Czarnecka.
  • Co-authored with Renata Gorczyńska vel Ewa Czarnecka.
  • Second edition: Open, Warszawa 1993, ; Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 1998,. American edition:
  • Other editions: 1994, ; 2003 within Dzieła zebrane of Czesław Miłosz,. Translated, sometimes with interviews made by Renata Gorczyńska , into Italian, English, French, Serbo-Chorvat and Lithuanian languages.

  • Editions

  • Accolades

  • Kazimierz Wyka Prize lifetime achievement award for his work in literary criticism