Eugeniusz Dębski

Eugeniusz Dębski (b. 1952; sometimes referred to as EuGeniusz, a word-play coined after the Polish word for genius) is a Polish science-fiction writer and translator of Russian literature. Born January 26, 1952 in Truskawiec, early in his life he moved to Wrocław where he graduated from the Russian faculty of the Wrocław University. He is known primarily as the author of numerous novels (mostly S-f and fantasy), and several hundred short stories, published in some of the most renown Polish journals, among them Fantastyka, Nowa Fantastyka, Science-Fiction, Fenix and Portal. In a duo with his wife, Ewa Dębska, Eugeniusz Dębski translated and published a large part of the Russian classics of science fiction, from Kir Bulychov, through Nik Pierumov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Vyacheslav Rybakov, to Kiryl Yeskov. Four times nominated to the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, he was also awarded with the prestigious Śląkfa, as well as two prizes created for him personally by the fans: the Mątwa and Srebrna Muszla prizes.