Eugeniusz Debski
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Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
science-fiction writer and translator of Russian literature. Born January 26, 1952 in Truskawiec
Truskawiec
Truskawiec may refer to:*Truskavets, Ukraine - Truskawiec in Polish*Truskawiec, Łódź Voivodeship...
, early in his life he moved to Wrocław where he graduated from the Russian faculty of the Wrocław University. He is known primarily as the author of numerous novels (mostly S-f and fantasy), and several hundred short stories, published in some of the most renown Polish journals, among them Fantastyka
Fantastyka
Fantastyka , is a Polish speculative fiction monthly fantasy and science fiction magazine....
, Nowa Fantastyka, Science-Fiction, Fenix
Fenix
Fenix can refer to:* Fénix 2, the rescue capsule used in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident* Fenix Project, a GNU project to make a free compiler of a scripting language for video-game development* Fenix, a character in the StarCraft series...
and Portal. In a duo with his wife, Ewa Dębska, Eugeniusz Dębski translated and published a large part of the Russian classics of science fiction, from Kir Bulychov, through Nikolai Perumov, Vladimir Vasiliev
Vladimir Vasilyev (writer)
Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilyev is a Russian science fiction writer and musician. His first book was published in 1991. Professional writer since 1997...
, Vyacheslav Rybakov
Vyacheslav Rybakov
Vyacheslav Rybakov is a well known Soviet and Russian science fiction author and an orientalist, interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China...
, to Kirill Yeskov
Kirill Yeskov
Kirill Yuryevich Eskov is a Russian writer, biologist and paleontologist.Eskov graduated from the Department of Biology of Moscow State University in 1979...
. Four times nominated to the Janusz A. Zajdel Award
Janusz A. Zajdel Award
The Janusz A. Zajdel Award , often called just Zajdel,is the annual award given by the Polish science fiction and fantasy fandom for the best stories published in the previous year...
, he was also awarded with the prestigious Śląkfa
Slakfa
Śląkfa is the oldest of Polish science fiction and fantasy award, although less known than the Janusz A. Zajdel Award. It is awarded by the Silesian Fantasy Club , the oldest of still-active Polish fandom organizations. The award has been first presented in 1983....
, as well as two prizes created for him personally by the fans: the Mątwa and Srebrna Muszla prizes.