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In 2018, he married his long-term partner, translator and historian Piotr Tarczynski, in Wandsworth Town Hall in London. Dehnel and his partner publish works under the female pseudonym Maryla Szymiczkowa. [7] In 2019, he undertook apostasy. [8] Dehnel and Tarczynski left Warsaw for Berlin in 2021.
‘Lush… Tender and droll, rueful and rousing, [Lala’s] stories trace one Polish family’s journey from the 1860s to the present day… [Jacek Dehnel] chronicles her decline with delicate but unabashed realism, as well as great humour, and Lloyd-Jones captures these qualities perfectly.’
Poet, writer and translator from English into Polish and Russian; he has also translated songs written to music by Astor Piazzola.
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Oct 2, 2019 · Jacek Dehnel is a poet, writer and translator from English (Philip Larkin, George Szirtes, W.H. Auden) and Russian (Osip Mandelstam) into Polish. Dehnel has also translated songs written to music by Astor Piazzola.
His first novel, Lala, tells the story of his grandmother’s life. His second, Saturn, is based on the life of Francisco Goya, and depicts his painful relationship with his son. His third, Mother Makryna, tells the true story of a 19th-century fraudster who claimed to be an oppressed Catholic nun.
Jacek Dehnel: For many years Poland has been the second most homophobic country in EU, but recently it won the gold. And by that I mean more “the state” than “the society”, which is actually getting slowly more and more tolerant and is more progressive than the political class, in particular the ruling party and the Catholic church.
