Mariusz Tukaj

Marius Tukaj was born in 1959 in Poland. Holder of 2 master’s degrees in literature and Polish and Slavic civilization, from the University of Silesia (Poland), then holds a DEA in Slavic and East European studies from INALCO in Paris. During the 1980s, he was literary critic in Poland and assistant in Polish literature at the University of Szczecin. In addition to Poland, he works as a journalist and translator in Serbia. Collaborates with the Albéniz Foundation of Madrid for the creation of the archives of Arthur Rubinstein.  
He is a professor of Polish language and literature at INALCO, the European Centre for Cultural Exchange ArtEC and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1991 he joined UNESCO as a translation specialist in the Index Translationum (International Bibliography of Translations), which he has been in charge of since 2009.