Jakobe Mansztajn Biography | Poet

Jakobe Mansztajn (born 1982 in Gdansk ) is an award-winning young Polish poet and blogger. Deputy editor of the literary quarterly Korespondencja z ojcem. Author of the poetry collection Vienna high life (2009) for which he has received many awards, including the prestigious 2010 Wroclaw Silesius Award in the Début of the Year category, Sztorm Roku 2010 Award founded by Gazeta Wyborcza, and has also been nominated for the Gdynia Literary Award. His debut collection has been described as : "one of the most distinctive in the past years in Polish literature " and gained wide critical acclaim. Translated into hebrew, english, belarussian, norwegian.