Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński
Polish poet of the late Renaissance and a pioneer of the Baroque. The greatest representative of the metaphysical movement of the era in Poland.
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Urszula Honek, born in 1987, is the author of four poetry books and one short story collection. Her work has been featured in both print and online journals, newspapers, magazines and literary publications.
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She is the winner of the Grand Prix of the Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Competition, the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Award, the Adam Włodek Award and the Stanisław Barańczak Award, as part of the Poznań Literary Prize. For White Nights, she was nominated for the International Grand Continent 2022 Award, the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award and Polityka’s Passport Award. The English edition, translated by Kate Webster, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024. In 2023, she won both the Conrad Award and the Kościelski Award, -
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem (staˈɲiswaf lɛm) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer of Jewish descent. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world.
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His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of -
Jan Kochanowski
Kochanowski was born at Sycyna, near Radom, Poland. Little is known of his early education. At fourteen, fluent in Latin, he was sent to the Kraków Academy. After graduation in 1547 at age seventeen, he attended the University of Königsberg (Królewiec), in Ducal Prussia, and Padua University in Italy. At Padua, Kochanowski came in contact with the great humanist scholar Francis Robortello. Kochanowski closed his fifteen-year period of studies and travels with a final visit to France, where he met the poet Pierre Ronsard.
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In 1559 Kochanowski returned to Poland for good, where he remained active as a humanist and Renaissance poet. He spent the next fifteen years close to the court of King Sigismund II Augustus, serving for a time as royal secr -
Alexander Pushkin
Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.
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See also:
Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
French: Alexandre Pouchkine
Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin
Spanish:Aleksandr Pushkin
People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.
Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the -
Sławomir Mrożek
Sławomir Mrożek (born June 29, 1930, died August 15, 2013) was a Polish dramatist and writer.
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Mrożek joined the Polish United Workers' Party during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and made a living as a political journalist.
In the late 1950s Mrożek begun writing plays. His first play, "Policja" (The Police), was published in 1958. Mrożek emigrated to France in 1963 and then further to Mexico. He traveled in France, England, Italy, Yugoslavia and other European countries. In 1996 he returned to Poland and settled in Kraków.
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Tadeusz Różewicz
Tadeusz Różewicz - poet, playwright, and novelist, was one of Poland's most versatile and pre-eminent modern writers.
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Remarkable for his simultaneous mastery of poetry, prose, and drama, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Tadeusz Różewicz has been translated into over forty languages. The most recent English-language volumes, recycling (2001), New Poems (2007) and Sobbing Superpower (2011), were finalists for the 2003 Popescu Prize (UK), the 2008 National Book Critics Award (USA) and the 2012 Griffin Prize (Canada) respectively. In 2007 he was awarded the European Prize for Literature.
Mother Departs (Matka odchodzi, 1999), exploring the life of his mother Stefania, is perhaps his most personal work. It won the Nike Prize i -
Bolesław Prus
Bolesław Prus (pronounced:[bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; Hrubieszów, August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist who is known especially for his novels The Doll and Pharaoh. He was the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature and remains a distinctive voice in world literature. Głowacki took the pen name "Prus" from the name of his family coat-of-arms.
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An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old soldier in the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, in which he suffered severe injuries and imprisonment.
In 1872 at age 25, in Warsaw, Prus settled into a distinguished 40-year journalistic career. As a sideline, to augment -
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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Zygmunt Krasiński
Tradition ranks Napoleon Stanisław Adam Ludwig Zygmunt Krasiński, a Polish count, with Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of three national bards of great Romantic poets, who influenced national consciousness during the period of political bondage of Poland.
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A mother bore Krasiński, a son, to Wincenty Krasiński, a general and count of the aristocratic family. He studied law at Warsaw University and in Geneva, where he met Adam Mickiewicz.
Krasiński compared as more sociopolitical conservative than the other two poets. He published much of his work anonymously.
People best know him for his philosophical messianist ideas. His drama, Nie-boska Komedia ( The Un-Divine Comedy , 1835), portrays the tragedy of a new order of Communism and -
Szczepan Kopyt
Poeta i muzyk. Wydał tomy wierszy: [yass] (2005), możesz czuć się bezpiecznie (2006) oraz sale sale sale (2009), który otrzymał nominację do Nagrody Literackiej Gdynia. Wraz z zespołem Yazzbot Mazut wydał płyty W pustyni i w puszczy (2008) i Mazut Mazut (2010).
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Urszula Honek
Urszula Honek, born in 1987, is the author of four poetry books and one short story collection. Her work has been featured in both print and online journals, newspapers, magazines and literary publications.
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She is the winner of the Grand Prix of the Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Competition, the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Award, the Adam Włodek Award and the Stanisław Barańczak Award, as part of the Poznań Literary Prize. For White Nights, she was nominated for the International Grand Continent 2022 Award, the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award and Polityka’s Passport Award. The English edition, translated by Kate Webster, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024. In 2023, she won both the Conrad Award and the Kościelski Award, -
Szczepan Kopyt
Poeta i muzyk. Wydał tomy wierszy: [yass] (2005), możesz czuć się bezpiecznie (2006) oraz sale sale sale (2009), który otrzymał nominację do Nagrody Literackiej Gdynia. Wraz z zespołem Yazzbot Mazut wydał płyty W pustyni i w puszczy (2008) i Mazut Mazut (2010).
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