Literary scholar, translator, writer, Doctor of Humanities, professor at Jagiellonian University. He was Wislawa Szymborska’s secretary and now runs her Foundation. He works at the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University, where he teaches classes in literary theory, translation theory and creative writing. He is sometimes a translator from English, happens to write books for children and adults and composes poems or song lyrics. He writes columns about books and language.