Karolina Golimowska is a literary scholar, translator and author of short prose and journalistic pieces. She was born in Aachen, grew up in Warsaw and studied at universities in Berlin and London. 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. She lives in Berlin.
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