Juliusz Słowacki
Juliusz Słowacki ['juljuʂ swɔ'vatski] (4 September 1809 in Kremenets, Volhynia, Russian Empire now in Ukraine – 3 April 1849 in Paris) was a noted Polish Romantic poet, considered to be one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature. His works often feature elements of Slavic pagan traditions, mysticism, and Orientalism.
Life and work
Influenced largely by Byron and Shakespeare, Słowacki's early work was often historical in nature, combining exotic locales (as in Arab) and tragedy (as in Maria Stuart). His work took on a more nationalist tone following the failed November Insurrection of 1830 - 1831. Like many of his countrymen, he decided to emigrate to France as a political refugee. Ironically, the first collections of poems he produced in
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Cyprian Kamil Norwid
Polish poet, dramatist, prosaist, essayist, philosopher, painter and sculptor. An outsider, despite his acquaintance with the famous - Chopin, Mickiewicz, Słowacki and Krasiński, he remained underestimated to be finally appreciated in the XX century. Censorship in partitioned Poland forced him to live in Paris. His work included hundreds of poems, some prose, dramas, sketches, paintings and sculptures. His early unfulfilled love formed his style, full of sensitivity. Since then he was mostly lonely, with the first of two other known romances occurring at age of 47. His main interests were writing style, polish society and morality. He spent all money on works of art and journeys to live in London, Berlin, New York and, mostly, Paris.
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Narcyza Żmichowska
A Polish novelist and poet. She is considered to be one of the precursors of feminism in Poland. Also known under her popular nom de plume Gabryella.
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Żmichowska's first novel published in 1846 was Poganka (The Heathen), in which she is known to have expressed interest in her friend Paulina Zbyszewska. The book was published by Northern Illinois University Press in 2012 in English translation by Dr Ursula Phillips. Letters to friends and family written by Żmichowska were published in five volumes by Wrocław University in 1960. There, she also expressed interest in a married man, Edward Dembowski, which led to a known scandal. Her correspondence with Bibianna Moraczewska (an unmarried woman by choice like Narcyza) spanning 32 years consisted m -
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Marcin Szczygielski
Polish writer, graphic designer, journalist & interior designer.
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Małgorzata Musierowicz
Małgorzata Musierowicz (b. January 9, 1945 in Poznań, Poland) is a popular Polish writer, author of many stories and novels for children and teenagers, but read with pleasure by adults too.
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Anja Rubik
A Polish supermodel, activist, philanthropist, and businesswoman. She is considered to be one of the most internationally successful models of the mid- to late-2000s to today. Rubik is known for her effortless style and for being the muse of Anthony Vaccarello.[4] She currently lives and works in New York.
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Manuela Gretkowska
Gretkowska studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1988 she left Poland to live in Paris, where she studied anthropology at École des hautes études en sciences sociales. It was France where she wrote her first short stories.
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Gretkowska's literary debut was the novel We Are Immigrants Here (My zdies' emigranty) (1991), in which she ironically described the experiences of the young generation leaving Poland. Gretkowska's next three books described the life of a modern artistic-intellectual bohemian living in France: Paris Tarot (1993), Metaphysical Cabaret (1994), and Textbook for people. Skull: The First and Last Volume (1996) connects gnosis, kabbala, the character of Mary Magdalene and the skull motif in global cult -
Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz
Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (born as Jarosław Marek Szulc was a Polish poet, essayist, dramatist and literary critic.
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As a poet, he was influenced by the traditions of classicism and the baroque. He has received multiple prizes for his novels, essays, and translations, including the Kościelski Prize (1967), S. Vincenz Prize (1985), and Polish PEN Club Prize. His volume of poetry Zachód słońca w Milanówku won the prestigious Nike Award in 2003.
Although Rymkiewicz was primarily a poet, he is better known as the author of two influential novels that contributed to the two most important debates of the 1980s: that involving martial law (1981) and Polish-Jewish relations. His novel Rozmowy polskie latem, 1983 (Polish Conversations in Summer 1983) d -
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (code-name Jan Bugaj, 1921-1944) - Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most renowned authors of Generation of Columbuses - young generation of Polish poetry, many of whom perished in the Warsaw Uprising and during the German occupation of Poland.
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Baczyński was born in Warsaw in the family of renowned literary critic and soldier of Polish Legions in World War I, Stanisław Baczyński and school teacher Stefania Zieleńczyk. His mother was a zealous Catholic but with Jewish roots, and as such was treated by the Germans as a Jew. His uncle, Dr. Adam Zieleńczyk, escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and was killed by Germans in 1943.
Baczynski was baptized on September 7, 1922 in Warsaw. As a child, he suffered from ast -
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (of the Ciołek coat-of-arms) was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic above all, and translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish. He was a pediatrician and gynecologist by profession.
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A notable personality in the Young Poland movement, Boy was the enfant terrible of the Polish literary scene in the first half of the 20th century. He was murdered in July 1941 during the Nazi occupation of Poland in what became known as the massacre of Lviv professors.
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Barbara Kosmowska
Ukończyła filologię polską na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim. Przez krótki czas była nauczycielką języka polskiego w Bytowie. W roku 1999 na macierzystej uczelni gdańskiej obroniła pracę doktorską zatytułowaną Pomiędzy dzieciństwem a dorosłością. O powieściopisarstwie Zofii Urbanowskiej. Praca ta, dotycząca literatury polskiego pozytywizmu skierowanej do dzieci i młodzieży, dostała wyróżnienie Summa cum lauda.
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Obecnie pracuje na stanowisku adiunkta Zakładu Historii Literatury Romantyzmu i Pozytywizmu na Wydziale Filologiczno-Historycznym w Akademii Pomorskiej w Słupsku. Jej naukowe zainteresowania to literatura pozytywizmu oraz literatura dla dzieci i młodzieży (współpracuje z poświęconym tym problemom czasopismem Guliwer). Pełni również funkcje kur -
Leonard J. Pełka
Doktor nauk humanistycznych, nauczyciel akademicki, członek Polskiego Towarzystwa Religioznawczego, Polskiego Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego i Polskiego Towarzystwa Uniwersalistycznego. Współpracował z pismami "Studia religioznawcze", "Nomos. Kwartalnik religioznawczy", "Lud", "Parerga. Międzynarodowe studia filozoficzne" i "Res Humana".
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Był uczniem Bohdana Baranowskiego. Doktorat uzyskał w 1977 r. na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim broniąc pracę pt. Demonologia ludowa regionu lubelsko-rzeszowskiego (studium etnologiczno-historyczne). -
S. Ansky
Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863 – November 8, 1920), known by his pseudonym S. Ansky (or Semyon An-sky), was a Belarusian Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist. He is best known for his play The Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, written in 1914. [Wikipedia.]
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