DAWID MOBOLAJI
Dawid Mobolaji is writer and translator of Polish literature based in London
Contact: dawidmobolajiakala [at] gmail [dot] com
ALTA Travel Fellow 2023 | NCW Emerging Translator Mentee 2022/23 | Dragon Hall Translator-in-residence 2022

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Translation
Poetry by Urszula Honek, whose novel WHITE NIGHTS (tr. Kate Webster) was nominted for the 2024 International Booker Prize
"Pet Semetery" & "Mama" (The Poetry Review, 2026)
Four Prose Poems (Poetry Northwest, 2026)
Three Poems (Words Without Borders, 2026)
Four Poems (The American Poetry Review, 2025)
Four Poems (The Dial, 2025)
Short stories from HERE COMES BIG BOY by Grzegorz Bogdał, winner of the Gombrowicz and the Gdynia Awards
Lift Up Your Hearts (The Dial, 2025)
Weird Things (Split Lip Magazine, 2025)
Fiction
Our Stepdad from THE BONES YOU CARRY IN YOUR POCKET by Łukasz Barys (Dumbo Press, 2024)
Oasis from LATER LIFE by Inga Iwasiów (Asymptote, 2024)
Alma from THE BLUE CAT by Martyna Bunda (Turkoslavia, 2022)
Non-fiction & reportage
Hello, I'd Like to Bring in Grandma by Alicja Turczyk (The Dial, 2026)
Izabela Dłużyk: The Bird Lady by Łukasz Pilip (True Story Award, 2026)
From LIKE THE WHITE MAN by Oliwia Bosomtwe (EFA Project Space, 2024)
From the PAVILION FOR SMALL MAMMALS by Patryk Pufelski (Words Without Borders, 2023)
Poetry by Bartosz Konstrat, nominated for the Silesius Poetry Award
"Pendulum" & "Painlessness" (Porridge, 2025)
"Mercury, Stone" (Dialogist, 2024)
"Sons" (Plume, 2024)
"Fruit" & "Moulting" (Identity Theory, 2024)
"Fire" (Identity Theory, 2024)
Writing
Fiction
Solstice (Bending Genres, 2024)
Amnion (Flash Frog, 2023) - nominated for the Pushcart Prize
The Unstable Familiar (Era, 2021)
Poetry
"Leofros Nikis" and "Men's Pond" in Lineage II anthology (Oblique House, 2025)
Reviews
Dear Beloved Humans by Grzegorz Wróblewski (Modern Poetry in Translation, 2023)
The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld (Era, 2020)
Essays & CNF
On originality and Biblical influence in the Western canon (Savage, 2021)
Visiting St Julian's Church (National Centre for Writing, 2022)
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