Karolina Golimowska

Karolina Golimowska, born in Aachen, grew up in Warsaw, lives in Berlin and is a literary scholar, translator and author of short prose and journalistic pieces. She has published in Sinn und Form, Gazeta Wyborcza, the German-Polish magazine Dialog, Chimera, Wyspa and academic journals, among others. Golimowska holds a PhD in American Studies and teaches at Freie Universität in Berlin. In 2014, she was awarded the German-Polish Journalist Award Tadeusz Mazowiecki. In the years 2018-2021 she has led the poetry translation workshop VERSschmuggel as part of the poetry festival poesiefestival berlin. Since fall 2024 head of literature and debates at the Polish Institute Berlin.