Ryszard Krynicki (1943) is a Polish poet and translator, member of the Polish "New Wave" Movement. He is regarded as one of the most prominent post-war contemporary Polish poets.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he was actively involved in the opposition movement against communist authorities of the Polish People's Republic and was a signatory of Letter of 59, which was a reaction of Polish intellectuals against the undemocratic changes in the Constitution of the Polish People's Republic. As a direct consequence of this, his works were officially banned between 1976 and 1980.
In 1988, he co-founded Wydawnictwo a5 publishing house in Poznań, which specialized in the publication of poetry books. Since 1991, he has been running a publishing company together with his wife Krystyna. Nowadays, Krynicki is seen as one of the foremost representatives of contemporary Polish poetry. In 2015, he became a member of the Polish Academy of Learning and was awarded the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award as a recognition for his poetry works.
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