Agnieszka Taborska

Agnieszka Taborska
Born 1961
Warsaw, Poland
Nationality Poland
Occupation art historian, translator, writer

Agnieszka Taborska (born 1961) is a Polish writer, educator and translator.

She was born in Warsaw and received a MA from the University of Warsaw. She lives in Warsaw and Providence, Rhode Island.[1][2]

From 1996 to 2004, she taught at the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art. Taborska has been a lecturer on European art, film and literature at the Rhode Island School of Design since 1988. Her main areas of interest are French surrealism and how women are portrayed in Western art and literature. She has been curator for exhibitions of Surrealist art in France and Poland.[3][2]

She has translated into Polish works by authors such as Philippe Soupault, Roland Topor, Gisèle Prassinos and Spalding Gray.[4]

Taborska has published fairy tales in Poland, Germany, Japan and Korea. These received awards from the German Academy of Children's Literature. They were also adapted for the stage and adapted into animated films which received awards at international film festivals.[4][3]

Selected works[4]

  • Conspirators of Imagination: Surrealism, essays (2007)
  • The Dreaming Life of Leonora de la Cruz, published in Poland, France and the United States (2007), illustrated by Selena Kimball
  • Wieloryb czyli przypadek obiektywny ("The Whale or Objective Chance"), short stories (2010)

References

  1. ↑ "Agnieszka Taborska" (in French). editions interferences.
  2. 1 2 "Agnieszka Taborska". Rhode Island School of Design.
  3. 1 2 "Reading:Artistic fictions". Austrian Cultural Forum - New York City.
  4. 1 2 3 "Agnieszka Taborska". Polish cultural institute - New York.
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