Stanisław Wyspiański
Polish playwright, painter, poet, interior and furniture designer.
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Tadeusz Konwicki
Prose writer, screenwriter and film director. Founder of the 'cinema d'auteur' in Poland and author of 20 books. Born in 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, near Vilnius (today Naujoji Vilnia, Lithuania), died on January 7th in Warsaw at 88 years old.
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Konwicki was educated at the Universities of Cracow and Warsaw and began writing for newspapers and periodicals. He served on the editorial boards of leading literary magazines and followed the official Communist Party line. His first work, Przy budowie (1950; “At the Construction Site”), won the State Prize for Literature. He began a career as a filmmaker and scriptwriter in 1956; his film Ostatni dzień lata (“The Last Day of Summer”) won the Venice Film Festival Grand Prix in 1958. By the late 1960s he had -
Joanna Jagiełło
Joanna Jagiełło ukończyła wydział anglistyki na UW. Współpracowała z czasopismami "Perspektywy" oraz "Cogito" jako dziennikarka i autorka materiałów do nauki języka angielskiego. Uczyła na wydziale anglistyki oraz w liceach i gimnazjach. Przez wiele lat pracowała jako redaktorka podręczników do języka angielskiego. Jest autorką autobiograficznej powieści dla dorosłych "Hotel dla twoich rzeczy" (2014) oraz dwóch powieści dla młodzieży: "Kawa z kardamonem" (2011) i "Czekolada z chili" (2013). Obie zostały wydane również na Ukrainie. Napisała także książki dla młodszych dzieci: "Oko w oko z diplodokiem" (2013) oraz "Pamiętnik Czachy" (2014), a także dwa tomiki poetyckie: "Moje pierwsze donikąd" (1997) i "Ślady" (2013). Oprócz pisania lubi grać
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Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life".
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For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.
Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. The -
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Zofia Nałkowska
Zofia Nałkowska (10 November 1884, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire - 17 December 1954, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish writer.
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Born into a family of intellectuals dedicated to the socialist cause, she studied in the Flying University and become one of Poland's most distinguished writers of prose, characterized by realism and psychological depth.
Her first success was Romans Teresy Hennert ("The love of Therese Hennert", 1923). She is best known for her books Granica ("The Frontier", 1935); Węzły życia ("Bonds of Life", 1948) and Medaliony ("Medallions", 1947). -
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 -
Hanna Krall
Urodziła się w Warszawie w rodzinie żydowskiej. Podczas II wojny światowej zginęło wielu członków jej najbliższej rodziny. Wojnę przeżyła tylko dlatego, że była ukrywana przed Niemcami. Cudem została ocalona w czasie transportu do getta. Holocaust i losy Żydów polskich z czasem stały się głównym tematem jej twórczości.
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Od 1955 r. pracowała w redakcji "Życia Warszawy", od 1966 r. w "Polityce", której korespondentem w ZSRR była w latach 1966-1969. Reportaże z ZSRR wydała w tomie Na wschód od Arbatu.W latach 1982-1987 była zastępcą kierownika literackiego Zespołu Filmowego "Tor". Na początku lat 90. związała się z Gazetą Wyborczą.
Światową sławę przyniósł jej oryginalny w formie wywiad z Markiem Edelmanem Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem (1977). Ostatn -
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher of Jewish descent. He was regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century.
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At a very early age, Schulz developed an interest in the arts. He studied at a gymnasium in Drohobycz from 1902 to 1910, and proceeded to study architecture at Lwów University. In 1917 he briefly studied architecture in Vienna. After World War I, the region of Galicia which included Drohobycz became a Polish territory. In the postwar period, Schulz came to teach drawing in a Polish gymnasium, from 1924 to 1941. His employment kept him in his hometown, although he disliked his profession as a schoolteacher, apparently maintaining it only because it was his so -
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.
His first full-length play "Tango" (1964) – a family saga – is still along with "The Emigrants" (a bitter and ironic portrait of two Polish emigrants in Paris) his best-known work, and continue to -
Bruno Jasieński
Bruno Jasienski, born Wiktor Zysman, was a Polish poet and leader of the Polish futurist movement, executed during the Polish operation of the NKVD in the Soviet Union.
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He was born to a Polish family of Zysmans with Jewish and German roots, but from his mother's side he was a descendant of nobility. His father, Jakub Zysman, was a local doctor and a social worker, member of the local intelligentsia.
In 1929 Jasienski moved to the USSR and settled in Leningrad, where he accepted Soviet citizenship, and was quickly promoted by the authorities. In 1932 he transferred from the Polish division of the French Communist Party to the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and soon became a prominent member of that organization. He migrated to Moscow. -
Witold Gombrowicz
Gombrowicz was born in Małoszyce, in Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a wealthy gentry family. He was the youngest of four children of Jan and Antonina (née Kotkowska.) In 1911 his family moved to Warsaw. After completing his education at Saint Stanislaus Kostka's Gymnasium in 1922, he studied law at Warsaw University (in 1927 he obtained a master’s degree in law.) Gombrowicz spent a year in Paris where he studied at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales; although he was less than diligent in his studies his time in France brought him in constant contact with other young intellectuals. He also visited the Mediterranean.
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When he returned to Poland he began applying for legal positions with little success. In the 1920s he started wr -
Aleksandra Janusz
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I do not rate books because I don't like the star system. I think that our world is overly concerned with metrics and leaves little place for discovery, wonder, and straying off the beaten path, so this is my small rebellion.
I read in Polish, English, and (rarely) French. I pick my lectures like a caveman (cavewoman) - because it was there and I happened to be in the mood for that. I might have a phase for a certain type of novel, and then pick something entirely else, so be warned - it's eclectic in here.
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Nie wystawiam ocen liczbowych, bo nie lubię gwiazdek. Uważam, że współczesny świat kładzie wiele nacisku na oceny liczbowe, przez co zabiera przestrzeń nowym odkryciom oraz zniechęca do podążania mniej utartymi szlakami. Nie chc -
Grzegorz Gortat
Urodzony pewnej kwietniowej niedzieli 1957 roku w Łodzi. W 1979 roku w ślad za przyszłą żoną przenosi się z Łodzi do Warszawy. Ukończył filologię angielską na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, sukces przypieczętowując tytułem magistra. W 1986 roku odnotował kolejny sukces zostając szczęśliwym ojcem. Jako świeżo upieczony magister powrócił do szkoły. Osiem lat później odpłacił socjalistycznej ojczyźnie niewdzięcznością, rezygnując z posady nauczyciela. Rodzina zyskała, ojczyzna, zajęta transformacją systemu, nie spostrzegła straty.
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Witold Gombrowicz
Gombrowicz was born in Małoszyce, in Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a wealthy gentry family. He was the youngest of four children of Jan and Antonina (née Kotkowska.) In 1911 his family moved to Warsaw. After completing his education at Saint Stanislaus Kostka's Gymnasium in 1922, he studied law at Warsaw University (in 1927 he obtained a master’s degree in law.) Gombrowicz spent a year in Paris where he studied at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales; although he was less than diligent in his studies his time in France brought him in constant contact with other young intellectuals. He also visited the Mediterranean.
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When he returned to Poland he began applying for legal positions with little success. In the 1920s he started wr -
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.
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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 -
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Stefan Żeromski
Stefan Żeromski ( [ˈstɛfan ʐɛˈrɔmski] Strawczyn near Kielce, October 14, 1864 – November 20, 1925, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż.
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In 1892–96 Żeromski worked as a librarian—during the last two years, as the librarian—at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
In recognition of his literary achievements, he was granted the privilege of using an apartment at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. In 1924 he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in literature.[2]
His novel were filmed by Walerian Borowczyk - Dzieje grzechu (A Story of Sin), Andrzej Wajda - Popioły (The Ashes), Filip Bajon - Przedw -
Zofia Nałkowska
Zofia Nałkowska (10 November 1884, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire - 17 December 1954, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish writer.
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Born into a family of intellectuals dedicated to the socialist cause, she studied in the Flying University and become one of Poland's most distinguished writers of prose, characterized by realism and psychological depth.
Her first success was Romans Teresy Hennert ("The love of Therese Hennert", 1923). She is best known for her books Granica ("The Frontier", 1935); Węzły życia ("Bonds of Life", 1948) and Medaliony ("Medallions", 1947). -
Tadeusz Konwicki
Prose writer, screenwriter and film director. Founder of the 'cinema d'auteur' in Poland and author of 20 books. Born in 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, near Vilnius (today Naujoji Vilnia, Lithuania), died on January 7th in Warsaw at 88 years old.
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Konwicki was educated at the Universities of Cracow and Warsaw and began writing for newspapers and periodicals. He served on the editorial boards of leading literary magazines and followed the official Communist Party line. His first work, Przy budowie (1950; “At the Construction Site”), won the State Prize for Literature. He began a career as a filmmaker and scriptwriter in 1956; his film Ostatni dzień lata (“The Last Day of Summer”) won the Venice Film Festival Grand Prix in 1958. By the late 1960s he had -
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Adam Mickiewicz
To a Pole, the name Adam Mickiewicz is emblematic of Polishness and greatness. What Homer is to the Greeks, or Shakespeare to the English, Mickiewicz is to the Poles. He is a cultural icon, a name inextricably connected with Polish literature and history, and one mentioned with pride. Mickiewicz stands out in the consciousness of Poles both as a man of letters and a political leader.
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Despite his unquestionable status and fame, however, much of Mickiewicz's biography is shrouded in mystery. Even the generally accepted date of his birth, December 24. 1798, is uncertain, since it hasn't been determined whether it refers to the Gregorian or the Julian calendar. Nor has it been established conclusively whether Mickiewicz was born in Nowogrodek or -
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher of Jewish descent. He was regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century.
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At a very early age, Schulz developed an interest in the arts. He studied at a gymnasium in Drohobycz from 1902 to 1910, and proceeded to study architecture at Lwów University. In 1917 he briefly studied architecture in Vienna. After World War I, the region of Galicia which included Drohobycz became a Polish territory. In the postwar period, Schulz came to teach drawing in a Polish gymnasium, from 1924 to 1941. His employment kept him in his hometown, although he disliked his profession as a schoolteacher, apparently maintaining it only because it was his so -
Joanna Fabicka
pisarka i felietonistka z wykształceniem filmoznawcy oraz doświadczeniem montażystki. Łodzianka. Pracując w łódzkiej Filmówce, montowała m.in. nominowaną do Oscara „Męską sprawę” w reżyserii Sławomira Fabickiego (męża).
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Debiutowała w 1993 roku tomikiem poezji "Bardziej cierpki smak". Jest autorką bestsellerowego cyklu książek o dojrzewaniu nastoletniego Rudolfa Gąbczaka i jego dysfunkcyjnej rodzinie, wydanych nakładem W.A.B.: Szalone życie Rudolfa (2002), Świńskim truchtem (2004), Seks i inne przykrości (2005) i Tango ortodonto (2006). W 2006 r. ukazał się przekład rosyjski pierwszej części cyklu, a w 2008 r. charytatywne wydanie książki w formie audiobooka, przeznaczone dla osób niewidomych i słabowidzących. Obecnie pracuje nad książeczką d -
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (also known as "Litwos"; May 5, 1846–November 15, 1916) was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."
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Born into an impoverished gentry family in the Podlasie village of Wola Okrzejska, in Russian-ruled Poland, Sienkiewicz wrote historical novels set during the Rzeczpospolita (Polish Republic, or Commonwealth). His works were noted for their negative portrayal of the Teutonic Order in The Teutonic Knights (Krzyżacy), which was remarkable as a significant portion of his readership lived under German rule. M -
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Jacek Dukaj
Jacek Dukaj is one of Poland’s most interesting contemporary prose writers, whose books are always eagerly anticipated events. Dukaj studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University. He successfully debuted at the age of 16 with a short story Złota Galera (Golden Galley). He is known for the complexity of his books, and it is often said that a single short story of Dukaj contains more ideas than many other writers put into their books in their lifetime. Popular themes in his works include the technological singularity, nanotechnology and virtual reality, and because of this his books often can be classified as hard science fiction.
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Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (May 20, 1919 - July 4, 2000) was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist and soldier. He is best known for writing a personal account of life in the Soviet gulag - A World Apart.
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He was born in Kielce. His studies of Polish literature at Warsaw University were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War (German invasion of Poland). During the Fall of 1939 he co-founded an underground resistance organization "Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa, PLAN". As the organization's courier he traveled to then Soviet occupied Lwów (Lviv), but was arrested in March 1940 by the NKVD and sentenced on fabricated espionage charges. Imprisoned in Vitsebsk and a gulag in Arkhangelsk region for 2 years, he was released in 19 -
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.
His first full-length play "Tango" (1964) – a family saga – is still along with "The Emigrants" (a bitter and ironic portrait of two Polish emigrants in Paris) his best-known work, and continue to -
Edmund Niziurski
A popular Polish writer, author of several of humorous novels and stories for children, adolescents and adults, written with a specific kind of irony. Niziurski was also a sociologist and a lawyer.
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Karolina Glaser
Karolina Glaser ma siedemnaście lat, jest uczennicą liceum. Pisze od zawsze. Pasjonuje się fantastyką, ale też neurobiologią, psychologią i sztuką. Jest już w trakcie pisania kolejnej powieści.
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Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Polski pisarz, prozaik i nowelista, jeden z głównych przedstawicieli realizmu z elementami naturalizmu w prozie Młodej Polski. Niewielką część jego spuścizny stanowią wiersze. Laureat Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za czterotomową „epopeję chłopską” Chłopi. Jeden z najwybitniejszych i najważniejszych pisarzy w dziejach literatury polskiej.
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Władysław Stanisław Reymont (7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants).
Born into an impoverished noble family, Reymont was educated to become a master tailor, but instead worked as a gateman at a railway station and then as an actor in a troupe. His inten -
Jan Parandowski
Jan Parandowski was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator. Best known for his works relating to classical antiquity, he was also the president of the Polish PEN Club between 1933 and 1978, with a break during World War II.
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Joseph Bédier
Bédier was born in Paris, France to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion. He was a professor of medieval French literature at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland (1889–1891) and the Collège de France, Paris (c. 1893).
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Modern theories of the fabliaux and the chansons de geste are based on two of Bédier's studies.
Bédier revived interest in several important old French texts, including Le roman de Tristan et Iseut (1900), La chanson de Roland (1921), and Les fabliaux (1893). He was a member of the Académie française from 1920 until his death.
His Tristan et Iseut was translated into Cornish by A. S. D. Smith, into English by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld, and into German by Rudolf G. Binding.
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Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) - prozaik, poeta, publicysta. Urodził się w Żytomierzu w Ukrainie, zmarł śmiercią samobójczą w Warszawie. Studiował polonistykę na podziemnym Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, brał aktywny udział w podziemnym życiu kulturalnym w czasie wojny. W 1943 roku został aresztowany, trafił do obozu koncentracyjnego w Oświęcimiu, następnie przetransportowano go między innymi do Dachau. W 1946 roku powrócił do kraju. Po 1948 roku stał się zwolennikiem partii komunistycznej, a swoją twórczość podporządkował założeniom realizmu socjalistycznego. Zadebiutował w 1942 roku cyklem wierszy Gdziekolwiek ziemia. W 1948 roku opublikował dwa tomy opowiadań - Pożegnanie z Marią i Kamienny świat - które spotkały się z szerokim odzewem.
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Julian Tuwim
Julian Tuwim (September 13, 1894 – December 27, 1953), known also under the pseudonym "Oldlen" when writing song lyrics, was a Polish poet of Jewish descent, born in Łódź, Congress Poland (then, part of the Russian Empire). He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at the Warsaw University. In 1919 Tuwim co-founded the Skamander group of experimental poets with Antoni Słonimski and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. He was a major figure in Polish literature, known especially for his contribution to children's literature. He was the recipient of a prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1935.
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Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Polski pisarz, prozaik i nowelista, jeden z głównych przedstawicieli realizmu z elementami naturalizmu w prozie Młodej Polski. Niewielką część jego spuścizny stanowią wiersze. Laureat Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za czterotomową „epopeję chłopską” Chłopi. Jeden z najwybitniejszych i najważniejszych pisarzy w dziejach literatury polskiej.
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Władysław Stanisław Reymont (7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants).
Born into an impoverished noble family, Reymont was educated to become a master tailor, but instead worked as a gateman at a railway station and then as an actor in a troupe. His inten -
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, playwright, novelist, and photographer active in the interwar period.
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Born in Warsaw, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was a son of the painter, architect and an art critic Stanisław Witkiewicz. His mother was Maria Pietrzkiewicz Witkiewiczowa. Both of his parents were born in the Samogitian region of Lithuania. His godmother was the internationally famous actress Helena Modrzejewska.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – a writer, playwright, poet, painter, photographer, philosopher and an art theoretician. Witkacy was a visionary ahead of his times, and yet a concretely pungent prankster, whose cutting-egde judgement -
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (May 20, 1919 - July 4, 2000) was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist and soldier. He is best known for writing a personal account of life in the Soviet gulag - A World Apart.
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He was born in Kielce. His studies of Polish literature at Warsaw University were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War (German invasion of Poland). During the Fall of 1939 he co-founded an underground resistance organization "Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa, PLAN". As the organization's courier he traveled to then Soviet occupied Lwów (Lviv), but was arrested in March 1940 by the NKVD and sentenced on fabricated espionage charges. Imprisoned in Vitsebsk and a gulag in Arkhangelsk region for 2 years, he was released in 19 -
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, playwright, novelist, and photographer active in the interwar period.
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Born in Warsaw, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was a son of the painter, architect and an art critic Stanisław Witkiewicz. His mother was Maria Pietrzkiewicz Witkiewiczowa. Both of his parents were born in the Samogitian region of Lithuania. His godmother was the internationally famous actress Helena Modrzejewska.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – a writer, playwright, poet, painter, photographer, philosopher and an art theoretician. Witkacy was a visionary ahead of his times, and yet a concretely pungent prankster, whose cutting-egde judgement -
Christel Petitcollin
Conseil et Formatrice en Communication et Développement Personnel
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Norman Davies
Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA, FRHistS is a leading English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland, and the United Kingdom. From 1971, Davies taught Polish history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) of the University of London, where he was professor from 1985 to 1996. Currently, he is Supernumary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Throughout his career, Davies has lectured in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Poland, and in most of the rest of Europe as well.
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The work which established Davies' reputation in the English-speaking world was God's Playground (1981), a comprehensive overview of Polish history. In Poland, the boo -
Stanisław Przybyszewski
Pisarz, poeta, dramaturg i publicysta. Urodzony 7 maja 1868 w Łojewie pod Kruszwicą, zmarł 23 listopada 1927 w Jarontach pod Inowrocławiem.
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Rozgłos zdobył w Berlinie, gdzie był jednym z bohaterów międzynarodowego środowiska artystycznego. Opublikował tam m.in. głośny esej "Zur Psychologie des Individuums. I - Chopin und Nietzsche. II - Ola Hansson" 1892 oraz poematy Totenmesse, 1895 (wersja polska Requiem aeternam, 1904), Vigilien, 1895 (wersja polska Z cyklu Wigilii, 1899), De profundis, 1895 (wersja polska 1900), Androgyne, 1900. Zapoczątkował w nich problemy konstytutywne dla całej jego twórczości: indywidualizm, status metafizyczny i społeczny jednostki twórczej, los geniuszy, sens przynależnych im atrybutów "degeneracji" i "choroby". Pr -
Stefan Żeromski
Stefan Żeromski ( [ˈstɛfan ʐɛˈrɔmski] Strawczyn near Kielce, October 14, 1864 – November 20, 1925, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż.
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In 1892–96 Żeromski worked as a librarian—during the last two years, as the librarian—at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
In recognition of his literary achievements, he was granted the privilege of using an apartment at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. In 1924 he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in literature.[2]
His novel were filmed by Walerian Borowczyk - Dzieje grzechu (A Story of Sin), Andrzej Wajda - Popioły (The Ashes), Filip Bajon - Przedw -
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.
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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 -
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska (Polish pronunciation: [vʲisˈwava ʂɨmˈbɔrska], born July 2, 1923 in Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. In Poland, her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors—although she once remarked in a poem entitled "Some like poetry" [Niektórzy lubią poezję] that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the art.
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Szymborska frequently employs literary devices such as irony, paradox, contradiction, and understatement, to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions. Szymborska's compact poems often conjure large existential puzzles, touching on issues of ethical import, and reflecting on the condition of people both as individuals and as -
Martyna Wojciechowska
Polska prezenterka telewizyjna, dziennikarka, podróżniczka i pisarka. Z wykształcenia ekonomistka. Absolwentka XXII Liceum Ogólnokształcącego im. Jose Marti w Warszawie.
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Pracuje w telewizji TVN, gdzie prowadziła programy Dzieciaki z klasą, Big Brother, Misja Martyna, oraz z Maxem Cegielskim Studio Złote Tarasy. W TVN Turbo przygotowywała i prowadziła magazyn Automaniak. Od września 2009 roku prowadzi program Kobieta na krańcu świata.
Współpracowała m.in. z takimi miesięcznikami jak Świat Motocykli, Auto Moto, Playboy czy Voyage. Od lutego 2007 jest redaktor naczelną polskiej edycji magazynów National Geographic oraz National Geographic Traveler.
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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 -
Gabriela Zapolska
Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska, known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 252 works of journalism, one film script, and over 1,500 letters. She received most recognition for her socio-satirical comedies. [wikipedia]
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Gabriela Zapolska, właśc. Maria Gabriela Janowska z domu Piotrowska herbu Korwin, primo voto Śnieżko-Błocka (ur. 30 marca 1857 w Podhajcach, zm. 17 grudnia 1921 we Lwowie) – polska aktorka, dramatopisarka, powieściopisarka i publicystka.
Przedstawicielka polskiego naturalizmu, wykpiwała moralną obłudę mieszczaństwa; pisała komedie satyryczne, dramaty i powieści. [wikipedia] -
Maria Konopnicka
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Poetka, publicystka, nowelistka, tłumaczka. Zajmowała się krytyką literacką. Pisała liryki stylizowane na ludowe i realistyczne obrazki (W piwnicznej izbie). Wydawała cykle nowel (Moi znajomi, Nowele, Na drodze). W otoczeniu ośmiorga swoich dzieci tworzyła bajki (Na jagody). Jako poetka, inspiracji szukała w naturze (Zimowy poranek). Swoje wiersze publikowała głównie w prasie. Wiersz patriotyczny Rota konkurował z Mazurkiem Dąbrowskiego o miano hymnu Polski. Wiele jej utworów powstało podczas podróży po Europie (Italia). Ostatnie lata życia poświęciła poematowi Pan Balcer w Brazylii. -
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 -
Paul Kleinman
Paul Kleinman grew up in White Plains, New York, and currently resides in New York City. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2009 with degrees in Art and Communication Arts: Radio, Television and Film. Out of fear that his author bio is painfully boring, he began making things up. He is an astronaut. He trains cobras. He is very tall and in no way sickly pale. He is also a humor writer. That one is true. Maybe.
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Gary L. Wenk
Gary L. Wenk is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics at the Ohio State University.
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Malene Rydahl
Malene Rydahl is born and raised in Denmark and has been based in Paris for the past nineteen years.
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She is the author of the book “ heureux comme un danois” ( as happy as a Dane) published by Grasset in April 2014. For decades Denmark has ranked at the top the world’s happiness index. Interweaving personal anecdotes and careful research, her book steers clear of any preaching and tackles the ostensible paradox of the Danish model and offers ten easy, entertaining, and thoughtful ways to be happy – or at least as happy as a Dane. The book won the prize of the most optimistic book in 2014 in France
She is currently the Director of Corporate Communications for Hyatt Hotels & resorts in Europe Africa and Middle East.
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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 -
Dariusz Dziektarz
Leśnik z wykształcenia i życiowej pasji. Olbrzymią popularność zyskał dzięki zamieszczonym na Twitterze (X) ciekawostkom o polskich zwierzętach, prowadzi też – na Kanale Zero – audycje przyrodnicze, zbierające entuzjastyczne recenzje.
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Maria Kuncewiczowa
Maria Kuncewiczowa was a Polish writer and novelist.
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She studied music and literature in Kraków, Warsaw and Paris. She initially wrote for literary magazines under a pseudonym, and published her first book in 1926. In 1938 she was awarded the Gold Laurel (Złoty Wawrzyn) of the Polish Academy of Literature. After 1939 she lived in France, England and the United States. From 1962-1968, she lectured in Polish literature at the University of Chicago. Around 1969, she returned to Poland, to live in Kazimierz nad Wisłą, and in the years 1970-1984 she spent the winter months in Italy. She won a number of literary awards in Poland during her lifetime.
Her most famous work is Cudzoziemka (translated to English as The Stranger), considered one of the m -
Gabriela Zapolska
Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska, known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 252 works of journalism, one film script, and over 1,500 letters. She received most recognition for her socio-satirical comedies. [wikipedia]
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Gabriela Zapolska, właśc. Maria Gabriela Janowska z domu Piotrowska herbu Korwin, primo voto Śnieżko-Błocka (ur. 30 marca 1857 w Podhajcach, zm. 17 grudnia 1921 we Lwowie) – polska aktorka, dramatopisarka, powieściopisarka i publicystka.
Przedstawicielka polskiego naturalizmu, wykpiwała moralną obłudę mieszczaństwa; pisała komedie satyryczne, dramaty i powieści. [wikipedia] -
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Iwaszkiewicz was born in Kalnik (now in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine). After the death of his father (an accountant), he and his mother lived in Warsaw between 1902–1904, and then moved back to Ukraine in 1904–1912. He graduated from a secondary school in Kiev in 1912 and enrolled at the Law Faculty of Kiev University. After World War I, in October 1918 he returned to Warsaw. There, he joined a group of local artists who had started Pro Arte et Studio arts magazine. Iwaszkiewicz with Julian Tuwim and Antoni Słonimski co-founded the Skamander group of experimental poets in 1919.
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In 1922 he married Anna Lilpop, a daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, and the couple settled in Podkowa Leśna in the suburb of Warsaw. In 1928 they moved to a newly buil -
Laura Lane
Laura Lane is an author, journalist, comedy writer and performer. She is the co-author of Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling (excerpted by The New Yorker) and This Is Why You’re Single (PEOPLE best new book, Kirkus starred review). Both books have been optioned for television and were adapted from stage shows she co-wrote and produced. Laura has contributed to three other books: she wrote a piece in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 59, was on the creative team for the book Coloring For Grownups: Holiday Fun and has an interview in the book Callings.
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She’s written for The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The San Francisco Chronicle, ESPN, Esquire, Vanity Fair, People, McSweeney’s and Cosmopolitan. Fun facts: Laura was born with one kidney and has -
Élisabeth Revol
Élisabeth Revol, née le 29 avril 1979 à Crest (Drôme), est une alpiniste française, notamment connue pour ses réalisations himalayennes en style alpin. Elle débute par son premier sommet à 6 000 m en 2006 puis deux ans plus tard, part sur l’Himalaya. Elle est la première femme à avoir réalisé le triplé Broad Peak - Gasherbrum I - Gasherbrum II en solitaire et sans oxygène. Le Gasherbrum I - Gasherbrum II sont enchaînés en un temps record de 52 heures sans retour au camp de base. Elle est également la première femme à réussir un 8 000 en hiver, en style alpin au Pakistan. Ouverture d'une voie en face nord ouest en hiver2. En janvier 2018, elle bénéficie d'un sauvetage exceptionnel dans des conditions très difficiles sur les pentes du Nanga P
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Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr is a Scottish journalist. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and has had a long career in political journalism, working for the Scotsman, The Independent, The Economist, the Express and the Observer. From 2000 to 2005 he was the BBC's Political Editor. His broadcasting includes series on contemporary thinkers for BBC 2 and Radio 4, political documentaries for Channel 4 and BBC Panorama, and Radio 4's Start The Week'.
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Archibald MacLeish
American poet Archibald MacLeish won a Pulitzer Prize for Conquistador in 1932, served as librarian of Congress from 1939 and as assistant secretary of state from 1944 to 1945, and won again for Collected Poems 1917-1952 and the verse play J.B. (1958).
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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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Stanisław Przybyszewski
Pisarz, poeta, dramaturg i publicysta. Urodzony 7 maja 1868 w Łojewie pod Kruszwicą, zmarł 23 listopada 1927 w Jarontach pod Inowrocławiem.
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Rozgłos zdobył w Berlinie, gdzie był jednym z bohaterów międzynarodowego środowiska artystycznego. Opublikował tam m.in. głośny esej "Zur Psychologie des Individuums. I - Chopin und Nietzsche. II - Ola Hansson" 1892 oraz poematy Totenmesse, 1895 (wersja polska Requiem aeternam, 1904), Vigilien, 1895 (wersja polska Z cyklu Wigilii, 1899), De profundis, 1895 (wersja polska 1900), Androgyne, 1900. Zapoczątkował w nich problemy konstytutywne dla całej jego twórczości: indywidualizm, status metafizyczny i społeczny jednostki twórczej, los geniuszy, sens przynależnych im atrybutów "degeneracji" i "choroby". Pr -
Monika Śliwińska
Monika Śliwińska – dziennikarka i redaktorka, od 2009 roku związana z Ośrodkiem Brama Grodzka - Teatr NN w Lublinie. Autorka książek: Muzy Młodej Polski (2004, Nagroda Klio), biografii Wyspiańskiego Dopóki starczy życia (2017), Panien z „Wesela” (2020, finał Nike) oraz biografii Boya-Żeleńskiego Książę (2024).
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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 -
Tiffanie DeBartolo
Tiffanie DeBartolo's most recent novel is Sorrow. Her previous novels include God Shaped Hole (2002), How To Kill a Rock Star (2005), and the graphic novel Grace: Based on the Jeff Buckley Story (2019). She also wrote and directed the film Dream for an Insomniac (1996) starring Jennifer Aniston and Ione Skye.
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Tiffanie is the founder and CEO of San Francisco Bay Area record label Bright Antenna, whose roster of artists include The Wombats, Wilderado, Sports Team, and Prep.
Tiffanie is also the cofounder of the ShineMaker Foundation, a charity organization dedicated to supporting human rights, women's rights, education, animal welfare, and the environment.
In her spare time, she is a runner, hiker, yogi, world-traveler, cook, poet, and artist.
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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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Bolesław Leśmian
Bolesław Leśmian (actually Bolesław Lesman) was a Polish poet of Jewish descent. He was an artist and member of the Polish Academy of Literature. He was one of the most influential poets of the early 20th century in Poland, one of the best poets of 20th century and cousin of another notable poet of the epoch - Jan Brzechwa and a nephew of famous poet and writer of Young Poland - Antoni Lange.
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