Aleksander Fiut

Aleksander Fiut (born 24 June 1945) is a Polish literary historian, literary critic and essayist who researched the works of Wilhelm Mach and Czesław Miłosz, among others.

Son of the civil servant Władysław Fiut and Jadwiga née Jakubiec.^[1] Between 1959 and 1963, he attended the Nicolaus Copernicus Grammar School in Żywiec.^[1][2] Later he studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Kraków and graduated with a master's degree in 1968.^[1] He started working at Kraków's public library (Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna).^[1] In 1974, he defended his doctoral thesis Twórczość prozatorska Wilhelma Macha (Wilhelm Mach's Prose Works), which was supervised by Tomasz Weiss.^[1] In 1987 he obtained a habilitation degree for his study Moment wieczny. O poezji Czesława Miłosza (translated into English as The Eternal Moment: The Poetry of Czesław Miłosz).^[1]

In 1996, he was made a state appointed professor and associate professor at the Jagiellonian University.^[1] Between 1997 and 2015, he held the Chair of Twentieth-Century Polish Literature at the Institute (from 2004 Faculty) of Polish Studies at UJ.^[1]

His research interests include contemporary Polish literature, Central European literature, with emphasis on the intersection of literature and sociology, anthropology and social psychology.^[3] He supervised three doctoral dissertations.^[4]

He was a member of the Polish Writers Association until August 2020.^[5] He was a founding member of the Czesław Miłosz Birthplace Foundation (Fundacja Miejsc Rodzinnych Czesława Miłosza), which was established in 1997 at the University of Kaunas in Lithuania.^[1][3]

He became a member of the Slavic Culture Commission and the Literary History Commission of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[4] He was a member of the Program Council of the Miłosz Institute at Claremont McKenna College.^[3]

• Dowód nietożsamości. Proza Wilhelma Macha. Ossolineum. 1977.
• Rozmowy z Czesławem Miłoszem. Wydawnictwo Literackie. 1981. ISBN 83-08-00690-6.
• Milosz par Milosz. Entretien de Czeslaw Milosz avec Ewa Czarnecka et Aleksander Fiut. Paris: Fayard. 1986. ISBN 2-213-01674-7. Co-authored with Renata Gorczyńska vel Ewa Czarnecka.
• Conversations With Czeslaw Milosz. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1987. ISBN 0-15-122591-5. Co-authored with Renata Gorczyńska vel Ewa Czarnecka.
• Moment wieczny. Poezja Czesława Miłosza. Historia i teraźniejszość. Vol. 14. Paris: Libella. 1987. ISBN 2-903332-05-3. Second edition: Open, Warszawa 1993, ISBN 83-85254-16-1; Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 1998, ISBN 83-08-02875-6. American edition: The Eternal Moment. The Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz. Berkeley: California University Press. 1990.
• Czesława Miłosza autoportret przekorny. Rozmowy. Wydawnictwo Literackie. 1988. ISBN 83-08-01196-9. Other editions: 1994, ISBN 83-08-02540-4; 2003 within Dzieła zebrane (Collected Works) of Czesław Miłosz, ISBN 83-08-03263-X. Translated, sometimes with interviews made by Renata Gorczyńska [ibid.], into Italian, English, French, Serbo-Chorvat and Lithuanian languages.
• Pytanie o tożsamość. Wydawnictwo Literackie. 1995. ISBN 83-7052-246-7.
• Być (albo nie być) Środkowoeuropejczykiem. Wydawnictwo Literackie. 1999. ISBN 83-08-03003-3.
• V Evropě, čili… Eseje nejen o polské literatuře. Petra Zavřelová, Václav Burian (translated by). Olomouc: Votobia. 2001. ISBN 80-7198-502-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• W stronę Miłosza. Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2003. ISBN 83-08-03504-3.
• Spotkania z Innym. Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2006. ISBN 83-08-03921-9.

• Czesławowi Miłoszowi-poeci: antologia. Baran i Suszczyński. 1996. ISBN 83-85845-59-3.
• Poznawanie Miłosza 2. Cz. 1, 1980–1998. Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2000. ISBN 83-08-02863-2.
• Poznawanie Miłosza 2. Cz. 2, 1980–1998. Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2001. ISBN 83-08-03124-2.

• Kazimierz Wyka Prize lifetime achievement award for his work in literary criticism (2006)^[1]