Tomasz Swoboda (1977), essayist, translator, author of books. He is the holder of the "Literatura na Świecie" translation award and the Andrzej Siemek Award. Swoboda translated into Polish works of Baudelaire, Nerval, Nadar, Bataille, Leiris, Sartre, Barthes, Ricoeur, Derrida, Foucault, Caillois, Starobinski, Poulet, Richard, Vovelle, Didi-Huberman, Le Corbusier and Krystyna Szwedzka, and is a grant-holder of Centre National du Livre. He works at the Faculty of Philology, University of Gdańsk – since 2016 also in the capacity of Deputy Dean for Education. In his free time, he creates experimental music with the band
Columbus Duo.