Magdalena Heydel

Magdalena Heydel (born 1963, known also as Magda Heydel) is a Polish philologist and translator. She graduated from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, with the degree of doctor of philology in 2001 and doktor habilitowany in 2013. She is now a lecturer at this same university. Among her scholarly interests are the history of English literature and theory of literary translation. She is editor-in-chief of Przekładaniec. A Journal of Translation Studies. She is active in the field of literary translation, translating both poetry and prose. She translated many works by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot and Ted Hughes.

Together with Piotr Bukowski, she edited an anthology about literary translation.