Milan Děžinský

Milan Děžinský (b. 1974) is a Czech poet, the author of eight poetry collections. In 2018, he won the Magnesia Litera Award for poetry, a coveted annual literary award in the Czech Republic. His books have been translated into English, German and Polish, and several poems have been published in US and UK magazines, such as The New York Review of Books, Poetry London, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Dark Horse and PN Review, as well as the Prague-based B O D Y. Děžinský’s work expands on the tradition of Deep Image and is influenced by poets such as James Wright, Tomas Tranströmer and Sylvia Plath. He lives in Roudnice nad Labem where he is an English teacher and also a town councillor.

Gravitation, the selected poetry of Milan Děžinský, translated by Nathan Fields, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in March 2026.