Zbigniew Herbert was born in Lviv, now part of Ukraine, in 1924 and passed away in Warsaw in 1998. This year marks the centenary of his birth. Although he remains relatively unknown to Japanese readers, Herbert was one of the foremost Polish poets of the second half of the 20th century and was long considered a leading contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Sekiguchi Tokimasa, professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, has curated the first Japanese-language anthology of Herbert’s poetry, offering Japanese readers a gateway into the rich and profound world of his verses.

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