In 2000, he took part in the meeting of three Polish poets and three American poets at the UN Headquarters in New York City, and in 2001 – in the World Poets Congress in Sydney. His works have been translated into over a dozen languages, including: English, Hebrew, German, Czech, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Since then, they have also been published in numerous national and international anthologies, and they have become an inspiration for many singers and composers, such as Stare Dobre Małżeństwo, Elżbieta Adamiak, Hanna Banaszak, Krzysztof Myszkowski, and Andrzej Zarycki. In 1989, his poems were included in school curricula, and in the following years, in the matriculation examination in the Polish language. He was the editor-in-chief of Wieści, he worked for Gazeta Krakowska and Dziennik Polski. He debuted in 1969 in the Życie Literackie weekly. He graduated from a mining technical college in Wałbrzych and from Polish Studies at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. Her theoretical work on liberature as a new literary genre integrating the verbal content with the material shape of the book introduced the concept to the academic world in the UK, Ireland, France, Japan, Taiwan and the USA. Her translation of B.S Johnson’s The Unfortunates was awarded at the Wrocław Good Books Fair in 2008.
Writer and Time (2010) and two monograph issues of a translation journal Literatura na Świecie (Literatures of the World) devoted to James Joyce (2004) and B.S. She published a monograph Joyce and Liberature (Litteraria Pragensia, 2011), and has edited or co-edited several volumes of essays, including Wokol Jamesa Joyce’a (Around James Joyce, 1998), Od Joyce’a do liberatury (From Joyce to Liberature, 2002), James Joyce and After.
In 2002 Bazarnik and Fajfer founded Liberature Reading Room (now located in Malopolski Garden of Arts of the Małopolska Province Library in Kraków). They also published Sonnet of Sonnets (2012), devised together with students of the MA Programme in Creative Writing and Bookmaking in Mills College, Oakland, CA. 2009) and (O)patrzenie (Ga(u)ze, 2003), which initiated “Liberatura” series of Korporacja Ha!art Publishing House, which they coedit. Together with Zenon Fajfer she wrote the first books to be called liberature: a triple-volume Oka-leczenie (Mute-I-Late, prototype edition 2000, 1 st ed.
A co-author of liberatura books, theorist of literature, translator, and Joyce scholar, an assistant professor at the Institute of English Philology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and a lecturer in the postgraduate programme for Literary Translation, where she runs translation workshops.
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