Paweł Dembowski

Paweł Dembowski
Born (1983-04-23) 23 April 1983 (age 41)
Głogów, Lower Silesia, Poland
NationalityPolish
Occupation(s)Translator, Publisher
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Wrocław (Licencjat, Magister)
ThesisEnglish translations of Stanisław Lem's Solaris in the context of cultural power imbalance (2016)

Paweł Dembowski (pseudonym "Ausir") (born April 23, 1983[1] in Głogów[2]) is a Polish translator, publisher, political activist, and two-time winner of Śląkfa.[3][4]

Biography

Dembowski lives in Wrocław, where he graduated in English studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Wroclaw.[2] His master's thesis concerned the English translations of the novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem.[5] He has translated works by Ian Watson, Robert Shearman, Ken Liu, William H. Keith Jr., Evan Currie, Kelly Robson, Naomi Novik, Greg van Eekhout, Agnieszka Dale, Matthew Mather,[3] and Ann Druyan[6] as well as various computer games and films.[2]

He is the founder of The Vault, a wiki dedicated to the Fallout series of video games,[7] launched in 2005. He was the winner of the 2009 Śląkfa Award (the oldest science fiction award in Poland) in the Fan of the Year category.[4] He was one of the founders of BookRage, a Polish e-book publishing company,[8] for which he was awarded a second Śląkfa Award in the Publisher of the Year category in 2013.[4]

He had been a member of the Razem political party since its founding in 2015 till August 2018.[9] He ran in the 2015 parliamentary election in Poland as one of the party's candidates in Wrocław.[10] Between May 2016 and June 2017, he was a member of the party's audit committee.[11] In 2017, he was a member of the party's National Council.[2] He left the party in August 2018.[12][13]

References

  1. ^ "Ausir". polter.pl. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d "Okręg 3 – Wrocław 9. Paweł Dembowski" [District 3 - Wrocław 9. Paweł Dembowski] (in Polish). partiarazem.pl. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Paweł Dembowski". fantasta.pl. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Śląkfa". ŚKF. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  5. ^ Dembowski, Paweł. English translations of Stanisław Lem's "Solaris" in the context of cultural power imbalance (Thesis). University of Wrocław.
  6. ^ "Kosmos. Możliwe światy" [Cosmos. Possible worlds] (in Polish). Burda Media Polska. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  7. ^ Teti, John (9 September 2010). "What the FAQ?". Eurogamer. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  8. ^ Nowakowska, Katarzyna. "Nie bój się (taniego) e-booka! Rewolucja w sprzedaży książek?" [Don't be afraid of the (cheap) e-book! A revolution in book sales?]. Gazeta.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  9. ^ "Polityk partii Razem pyta o treść paktu z Janem Pawłem II" [A politician from the Together party asks about the content of the pact with John Paul II]. Rzeczpospolita (in Polish). Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  10. ^ "Serwis PKW – Wybory 2015". Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  11. ^ "Mieszkaniec Wrocławia wystąpił do KPRM o treść "paktu z Janem Pawłem II"" [A resident of Wrocław applied to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister for the content of the "pact with John Paul II"]. Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  12. ^ "Rezygnacja z członkostwa w partii" [Resignation from party membership]. partiarazem.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  13. ^ "Facebook post". facebook.com. Retrieved 10 September 2018.