Janusz Szuber
Janusz Szuber was born in 1947 and has published eighteen collections of poetry in Poland. His work has been translated into many other languages, and he has received a number of awards, including the City of Sanok Literary Award, the Kazimiera Illako -wiczówna Award for Best Poetic Debut, the top award from the Polish Foundation of Culture (for his book About a Boy Stirring Jam), and the Wladyslaw and Nelly Turzañski Cultural Award (Toronto). Szuber lives in the old city of Sanok, near the Franciscan church where his ancestors are buried.