Karol Lesman

Karol Lesman studied Slavic languages and literature at the University of Amsterdam. As a translator from Polish, he has dozens of titles to his name in addition to those of Olga Tokarczuk. They include work by Wisława Szymborska and Zbigniew Herbert. He has received multiple awards for his translation oeuvre, which spans five decades, including the Aleida Schot Prize and the Martinus Nijhoff Translation Prize.