Jerzy Koch#
| Membership Number: | 3319 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | POLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Professor Ordinarius (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
- 2007 - 2011 Professor Ordinarius (University of Wrocław)
- 2005 Full professor (the title of professor)
- 2002 D.Litt. in Afrikaans literature, Wrocław
- 1991 Ph.D. in Dutch/Flemish literature, Leuven (Belgium)
- 1982 M.A. in Dutch/Flemish and German, Wrocław
Fields of Scholarship
- Dutch and Flemish literature of the19th and 20th century
- (Post) Colonial literature (South Africa, Suriname, the Caribbean)
- Culture of the Low Countries and South Africa
- Afrikaans and South African literatures
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Second prize in the Multatuli-Competition, Amsterdam
- 1995 M. Nijhoff-Award for Translations from Dutch Literature, Amsterdam
- 2004 Minister of National Education Award for outstanding research results
- 2005 Minister of National Education Award for outstanding research results
- 2005 Member of Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/The South African Academy for Science and Arts
- 2008 ANV-Visser-Neerlandiaprijs
- 2009 Prize of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands, http://www.spacetotakeplace.nl/nl
- 2010 The Order of Leopold (Leopoldsorde/Ordre de Léopold - Belgian national honorary orders of knighthood)
- 2019 Member of PEN Afrikaans, a division of the International PEN
