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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".

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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Antoni Libera

He is a Polish writer, translator, literary critic, and theater director. He graduated from Warsaw University and received his Ph. D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Pen Club, the Polish Writers Association, and the American Samuel Beckett Society.

Libera is best known for his translations and productions of Samuel Beckett's plays. He has translated all Beckett’s dramatic works into Polish, as well as some of his other works. He has also directed many of Beckett’s plays in Poland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the U.S. Many famous Polish actors have appeared in those plays, including Tadeusz Łomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Maja Komorowska, Adam Ferency, Zbigniew Zamachowski, and Andrzej Seweryn, along with actors fr

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Andrzej Stasiuk

Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers, journalists and literary critics. He is best known for his travel literature and essays that describe the reality of Eastern Europe and its relationship with the West.

After being dismissed from secondary school, Stasiuk dropped out also from a vocational school and drifted aimlessly, became active in the Polish pacifist movement and spent one and a half years in prison for deserting the army - as legend has it, in a tank. His experiences in prison provided him with the material for the stories in his literary debut in 1992. Titled Mury Hebronu ("The Walls of Hebron"), it instantly established him as a premier literary talent. After a col

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Eugen Kogon

Eugen Kogon (February 2, 1903 – December 24, 1987) was a historian and a survivor of the Holocaust. A well-known Christian opponent of the Nazi Party, he was arrested more than once and spent six years at Buchenwald concentration camp. Kogon was known in Germany as a journalist, sociologist, political scientist, author, and politician. He was considered one of the "intellectual fathers" of the Federal Republic of Germany and European integration in Germany.

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Małgorzata Rejmer

Małgorzata (Margo) Rejmer, born in 1985 in Warsaw, is an award-winning Polish novelist, reporter, and writer of short stories. Her books, which have been translated into eight languages, include the novel Toximia (2009) and two works of nonfiction: Bucharest: Dust and Blood (2013), which won the Newsweek Award for best book of 2014, the Gryfia Literary Award, and the TVP Kultura Award, and Mud Sweeter than Honey (2018), for which she was was awarded the Polityka Passport, the most prestigious prize in Poland for emerging artists, as well as the Arkady Fiedler Award. She holds the title of the Young Ambassador of the Polish Language. She lives in Warsaw and Tirana.

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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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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.

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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Zofia Nałkowska

Zofia Nałkowska (10 November 1884, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire - 17 December 1954, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish writer.

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).

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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.
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.

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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.

When he returned to Poland he began applying for legal positions with little success. In the 1920s he started wr

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Jadwiga Korczakowska

Polska pisarka, autorka wierszy, opowiadań i książek dla dzieci. Należy do klasyków gatunku. Wydała blisko 50 pozycji książkowych (w tym zbiory opowiadań, wiersze). Jest także autorką utworów scenicznych, scenariuszy i słuchowisk. Pisywała do wszystkich czasopism dziecięcych.
Jej najbardziej znana książka to "Bułeczka" (I wyd. 1957, ekranizacja 1973) - opowieść o losach pyzatej wiejskiej dziewczynki Bronki przezwanej Bułeczką, która trafia do domu zamożnych wujostwa w mieście. Dziewczynka została niezbyt chętnie przyjęta przez krewnych z powodu swojej nieporadności w zderzeniu z miejską rzeczywistością i stała się obiektem docinków i złośliwości, szczególnie ze strony swojej ciotecznej siostry - Dziuni. Bułeczka wprowadziła wiele pozytywnego

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Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green is an award-winning author and investigative journalist specializing in narrative non-fiction.

Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood and Betrayal tells the story of the infamous Bronx gang through inside access to gangsters and the federal agents, police officers and prosecutors who took them down. It was an Edgar finalist by Mystery Writers of America and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick.

His first book, Murder in the High Himalaya, won the coveted Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Category and the American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Non Fiction Book of the Year. The book is endorsed by the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere. It was translated into Polish

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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.

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).

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Simon Ian Childer

Pseudonym of John Brosnan

John Raymond Brosnan was an Australian writer of both fiction and non-fiction works based around the fantasy and science fiction genres. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, and died in South Harrow, London, from acute pancreatitis. He sometimes published under the pseudonyms Harry Adam Knight, Simon Ian Childer (both sometimes used together with Leroy Kettle), James Blackstone (used together with John Baxter), and John Raymond. Three not very successful movies were based on his novels–Beyond Bedlam (aka Nightscare), Proteus (based on Slimer), and Carnosaur. In addition to science fiction, he also wrote a number of books about cinema and was a regular columnist with the popular UK magazine Starburst.

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Walter Laqueur

Walter Ze'ev Laqueur was an American historian, journalist and political commentator. Laqueur was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia, Prussia (modern Wrocław, Poland), into a Jewish family. In 1938, he left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine. His parents, who were unable to leave, became victims of the Holocaust.

Laqueur lived in Israel from 1938 to 1953. After one year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he joined a Kibbutz and worked as an agricultural laborer from 1939 to 1944. In 1944, he moved to Jerusalem, where he worked as a journalist until 1953, covering Palestine and other countries in the Middle East.

Since 1955 Laqueur has lived in London. He was founder and editor, with George Mosse, of the Journal of Contemporary Histo

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Anthony Flint

Anthony Flint is author of "Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City." A journalist for twenty years, primarily at The Boston Globe, he writes about architecture, urban planning and sustainability. He was a visiting scholar and Loeb fellow at the Harvard Design School, and also served in the Office for Commonwealth Development, the Massachusetts state agency coordinating growth policy. He is currently director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (www.lincolninst.edu), a think-tank in Cambridge, Mass. where he is also engaged in writing and research. He is the author of two blogs, At Lincoln House at www.lincolninst.edu and Developing Stories at www.anthon

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Marc Bekoff

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Ida Fink

Fink writes in Polish, primarily on Holocaust themes. Her stories revolve around the terrible choices that the Jews had to make during the Nazi era and the hardships of Holocaust survivors after the war.
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Agnieszka Stelmaszyk

Pochodzi z Wielkopolski, uczęszczała do Szkoły Podstawowej im. Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Wysokiej. Z wykształcenia jest nauczycielką języka polskiego, nigdy jednak nie pracowała w szkole. Początkowe zainteresowania biologią i zawodem lekarki czerpała za sprawą swojej matki – nauczycielki biologii. Pochłaniały ją także historie archeologiczne i kryminały. Mieszka z rodziną w Bydgoszczy.

Zadebiutowała w 2007 roku zbiorem Opowiadania z morałem w wydawnictwie Papilon. W 2010 roku ukazał się pierwszy tom serii Kroniki Archeo, która stała się najpopularniejszą serią autorki (sprzedała się w nakładzie ponad 500 tys. egzemplarzy). Jej książki ukazały się w języku azerskim, czeskim, estońskim, fińskim, litewskim, niemieckim, rosyjskim oraz ukr

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Robert J. Szmidt

Robert J. Szmidt is a writer, translator, publisher and editor in chief of a number of magazines, including “Science Fiction” monthly magazine.
He created a couple of literary and film awards, and the second largest digital library of science fiction texts in the world (www.fantastykapolska.pl).
He is best known for his eleven best-selling SF novels and almost twenty short stories.
His books appeared in Poland, USA and Russia.

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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.
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

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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.

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

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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".

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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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.

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

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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.

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

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Sławomir Mrożek

Sławomir Mrożek (born June 29, 1930, died August 15, 2013) was a Polish dramatist and writer.

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

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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.

When he returned to Poland he began applying for legal positions with little success. In the 1920s he started wr

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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.

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

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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.
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

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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.

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

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Sławomir Mrożek

Sławomir Mrożek (born June 29, 1930, died August 15, 2013) was a Polish dramatist and writer.

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

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Christopher Bollas

Christopher Bollas, Ph.D. is a Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and has been practicing for over fifty years. Former Director of Education at the Austen Riggs Center he was Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Child Neuropsychiatry of the University of Rome. He is a prolific author and international lecturer.

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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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James Nicol

I always knew I wanted to write the kind of fantasy novel I had escaped into as a child, somewhere that felt safe and filled with characters that did brave things and had lots of fun at the same time. But I wanted the magic in my book to be part of the world, not a secret, and I wanted to see what happened after a witch was trained and was sent out into the world to work. When I was thinking about all this, one day I got a really clear image of a scene for the book – I wrote it all down as quickly as I could and then thought, now what happens next ...

James Nicol has loved books and stories his whole life. As a child he spent hours absorbed in novels, watching epic 1980s cartoons or adventuring in the wood at the bottom of the garden searchi

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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).

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.

Bédie

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Stanisław Wyspiański

Polish playwright, painter, poet, interior and furniture designer.

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Krzysztof Kieślowski

Krzysztof Kieślowski was an influential Academy Award-nominated Polish film director and screenwriter, known internationally for The Double Life of Veronique and his film cycles The Decalogue and Three Colors (Trois couleurs).

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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.

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

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Joseph Heller

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Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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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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Fiona Beddall

Fiona Beddall has taught EFL to a variety of age groups in France, Spain and the UK, and has fifteen years’ experience as a writer and editor of teaching materials. She has written a number of teacher’s resource books and activity books. She also has a long-standing interest in graded readers, and has written and adapted several for the Penguin Readers series, including Alexander the Great, A History of Britain and The Odyssey.

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Izabela Meyza

Antropolożka kultury i dziennikarka współpracująca m.in. z "Wprost" i "Zwierciadłem". Mama na wychowawczym.

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Kornel Makuszyński

Kornel Makuszyński (Stryj, now in Ukraine, 8 January 1884 — 31 July 1953, Zakopane) was a Polish writer of children's and youth literature.

Makuszyński attended school in Lviv (Polish: Lwów) and wrote his first poems at the age of 14. These were published two years later in the newspaper Słowo Polskie, in which he soon became a theatre critic. He studied language and literature at both the University of Lviv (then Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, Poland) and in Paris. He was evacuated to Kiev in 1915, where he ran the Polish Theatre and was the chairman of the Polish writers and journalist community.

He moved to Warsaw in 1918, and became a writer.

He was buried at the Peksowe Brzysko cemetery in Zakopane, where he lived from 1945. There is a

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Joanna Szczerbaty

Psycholog, terapeuta uzależnień, wykładowca akademicki, nauczyciel, autor. Od lat pomaga osobom wychodzącym z domów dysfunkcyjnych.

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Emilia Padoł

Polska dziennikarka i pisarka.

Absolwentka Wydziału Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, zdobywczyni I nagrody w konkursie na najlepszą pracę magisterską o tematyce gender, organizowanym przez IBL PAN oraz Podyplomowe Gender Studies im. M. Konopnickiej i M. Dulębianki. Przygotowywała rozprawę doktorską na temat twórczości Marka Bieńczyka.

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William Attaway

William Attaway (1911–1986) was born in Mississippi, the son of a physician who moved his family to Chicago to escape the segregated South.

Attaway was an indifferent student in high school, but after hearing a Langston Hughes poem read in class and discovering that Hughes was black, he was inspired with an urgent ambition to write.

Rebelling against his middle-class origins, Attaway dropped out of the University of Illinois and spent some time as a hobo before returning to complete his college degree in 1936. He then worked variously as a seaman, a salesman, a union organizer, and as part of the Federal Writers’ Project, where he made friends with Richard Wright. Attaway moved to New York, published his first novel, 'Let Me Breathe Thunder

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Andrzej Polkowski

Andrzej Polkowski was a Polish translator . He translated around forty titles across several genres, including children's literature (including the Harry Potter series), fantasy, science fiction and history.

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Gideon Greif

Gideon Greif (Hebrew: גדעון גרייף) is an Israeli historian who specializes in the history of the Holocaust, especially the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp and particularly the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. Since 2011, he has been a Professor for Jewish and Israeli History at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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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Scott Stuart

Scott Stuart is a best-selling children’s book author who is committed to creating content that empowers kids. His books have appeared on numerous best-seller lists, as well as being shortlisted for ABIA Children’s Book of the Year and CBCA Notable Picture Book of the Year.

His empowering messages have been seen over 100 million times on Social Media, and he is a leading voice on fully accepting and empowering our children, exactly as they are.

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Angelika Kuźniak

Angelika Kuźniak ukończyła kulturoznawstwo na Uniwersytecie Europejskim we Frankfurcie nad Odrą (studiowała także lingwistykę na Universita degli Studi di Macerata we Włoszech). Od 2000 roku współpracuje z „Gazetą Wyborczą”. Dwukrotnie uhonorowana nagrodą Grand Press (2004: za Mój warszawski szał z Włodzimierzem Nowakiem; 2008: za Zabijali we mnie Heidi).
Współautorka dwóch reportaży: Noc w Wildenhagen i Mój warszawski szał, zamieszczonych w nominowanym do Nagrody Literackiej NIKE 2008 tomie Włodzimierza Nowaka Obwód głowy (współpracowała z Nowakiem także przy powstaniu tytułowego reportażu).
Teksty te zostały przełożone na niemiecki (Die Nacht von Wildenhagen. Zwölf deutsch-polnische Schicksale, Eichborn 2009) i na rumuński (Mânia varşovian

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Simona Kossak

Simona Gabriela Kossak (30 May 1943 – 15 March 2007) was a Polish biologist, ecologist, and professor of forest sciences. Kossak is known for her efforts to preserve the remnants of natural ecosystems in Poland. Her work dealt with, among other things, the behavioral ecology of mammals. She sometimes referred to herself as a "zoo-psychologist."

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Ignacy Karpowicz

Born 1976, prose-writer, traveler, translator; he made his debut with the novel Uncool (2006), and then published another novel, The Miracle (2007), and a collection of impressions from his journeys around Ethiopia, The Emperor’s New Flower (and Bees) (2007); which was nominated for the POLITYKA Passport; he lives (mainly) in Warsaw.

The first part of Ignacy Karpowicz’s debut novel, Uncool, might seem to suggest that we have here another young prose-writer seeking to describe the various miseries of the provincial life, as the author brings us young and frustrated residents of Białystok who have difficulty making ends meet. But the second part of the novel clearly leans toward unhinged, no-holds-barred grotesque, in which the writer opens th

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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.

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

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Alexander Litvinenko

Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (Russian: Александр Вальтерович Литвиненко) was a former officer of the Russian State security service, and later a Russian dissident and writer.

Litvinenko became a KGB officer in 1986, and two years later, was moved into the Military Counter Intelligence. He was promoted to the Central Staff, and specialised in counter-terrorism and infiltration of organised crime. Six years later, he was promoted to senior operational officer and deputy head of the Seventh Section of the FSB.

In November 1998, Litvinenko publicly accused his superiors of ordering the assassination of Russian tycoon and oligarch, Boris Berezovsky. Litvinenko was arrested the following March on charges of exceeding his authority at work. He w

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Marcin Szczygielski

Polish writer, graphic designer, journalist & interior designer.

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Angela Barrett

Angela Barrett studied at the Royal College of Art in England with Quentin Blake and is one of Britain’s most highly acclaimed illustrators. She has won the Smarties Book Prize and the W. H. Smith Illustration Award for her work and has illustrated more than twenty-four books for children, including classic tales, fairy tales, biographies, story collections, and picture books. She lives in London.

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Ota Filip

Ota Filip (* 9. března 1930, Slezská Ostrava) je jedna z předních postav české exilové literatury.

Po maturitě (1948) pracoval v různých zaměstnáních (sportovní redaktor Mladé Fronty, horník, v letech 1968 – 1969 redaktor ostravského nakladatelství Profil, dělník). V roce 1970 byl odsouzen za podvracení republiky. V roce 1974 se nuceně vystěhoval do Německa. V Německu pracoval jako publicista a komentátor a jako lektor nakladatelství Fischer Verlag. Je členem Bavorské akademie věd a umění. Žije v podalpském městečku Murnau am Staffelsee.

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Bohdan Baranowski

Polski historyk, orientalista, regionalista, profesor nauk humanistycznych, nauczyciel akademicki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.

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Alan Bullock

Dr. Bullock, later Sir Alan and eventually a life peer, diagnosed the malignancies of dictatorship and tyranny that plagued 20th-century Europe. He twinned two such dictators in one of his later studies, ''Hitler and Stalin, Parallel Lives'' (1991, Knopf).

He was the last of three brilliant Oxford historians whose views influenced thought in the English-speaking world and beyond, even when their own views diverged. The others were A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper who, for instance, offered a more nuanced interpretation of Hitler than did Dr. Bullock.

While Dr. Bullock originally portrayed Hitler as a diabolical charlatan and cynical opportunist without convictions, Trevor-Roper saw him as an ideologue and demagogue convinced of his own p

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Anders Bortne

Anders Marius Bortne (født 4. oktober 1973 i Ålesund) er en norsk musiker og forfatter.

I 1996 stiftet han indierockebandet Whopper hvor han var gitarist, vokalist og låtskriver. Han har også vært vokalist og låtskriver i bandet Kaare Joao, frontet av Kåre Pedersen fra Kåre & the Cavemen. Dannet bandet Corado i 2005 sammen tidligere Whopper-medlem Anders Hole og ga ut platen Corado i 2007 og This Summer Disease i 2009.

I 2005 debuterte han med romanen Et bra band på Tiden Norsk Forlag. Hans andre bok, novellesamlingen "Natt'a der oppe, natt'a der nede", kom ut i 2008. Romanen "Ismannen" kom ut i 2011, og ble nominert til Ungdommens Kritikerpris. Romanen "Karikaturen", om den dødstruede Muhammed-tegneren Bård Anderssen, utkom i 2014.

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Cezary Harasimowicz

Harasimowicz is a Polish writer, actor, playwright and novelist.

He completed acting study at the Polish Theatre in Wrocław in 1980, and graduated from the study of screenwriting at the Film School in Łódź. In 1989, his film "300 Miles Into the Sky" was honored with the Award of the European Film Academy, of which he is also a member. In 1994, his screenplay for the film "Bandyta" won first prize in the contest sponsored by Hartley-Merrill in the United States. As a result of this award, Harasimowicz participated in Robert Redford's workshop at the Sundance Institute, where his script was deemed best, emphasizing its outstanding humanistic qualities.

Harasimowicz created eight feature films and television series, including "Przeprowadzki", th

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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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Alfréd Wetzler

Slovak edition and Czech edition were published under pseudonym Jozef Lánik.

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Winshluss

Vincent Paronnaud (born 1970), a.k.a. Winshluss, is a French comics artist and filmmaker.
Paronnaud was born in La Rochelle. He is best known for cowriting and codirecting with Marjane Satrapi the highly acclaimed animated film Persepolis (2007), for which they received numerous awards including the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival[1] as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.[2]

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James Withey

James Withey is author of the best selling 'How to Tell Depression to Piss Off: 40 Ways to Get Your Life Back' which was published by Little Brown in May 2020.

The follow up book, 'How to Tell Anxiety to Sod Off', was published by Little, Brown in January 2022.

'How to Get to Grips with Grief' was published in July 2022.

His sixth book 'How to Smash Stress' will be published in March 2023.

He is the founder of The Recovery Letters project which publishes letters from people recovering from depression, addressed to people experiencing it. www.therecoveryletters.com

The Recovery Letters book is published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers and was released in July 2017.

Cosmopolitan named it as 'One of the 12 mental health books everyone should read'.

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Przemysław Semczuk

Przemysław Semczuk is an acclaimed Polish reporter, journalist, publicist, and writer specialising in criminal reportage and the history of Communist Poland.

He is the author of a bestselling reportage ‘Wampir z Zagłębia’ (the story of Zdzisław Marchwicki, a notorious serial killer in Communist Poland), for which he was awarded a Crystal Reportage Card (Kryształowa Karta Reportażu) in 2017.

He has published in major Polish newspapers and magazines such as "Wprost", "Focus Historia" and "Wysokie Obcasy Extra" as well as “Newsweek” and "Playboy".

Semczuk has co-produced a TV series “Cienie PRL” (about uncovered crimes in the Communist Poland) for TVP (2008) and in 2022 he co-produced and presented true crime docuseries Polscy. Seryjni… for TVP H

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Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for The Observer and The Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of B is for Bauhaus, The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex.

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Adam Szustak

Adam Stanisław Szustak OP, od kilku lat prowadzi życie wędrownego kaznodziei. Realizuje w ten sposób dominikańską dewizę: Głosić Ewangelię wszystkim, wszędzie i na wszelkie sposoby. Głosi na wielotysięcznych stadionach, w kościołach i aulach, w parafiach i w prywatnych domach. Kaznodziejską opowieść o Jezusie snuje również w Internecie. Jest autorem licznych książek i audiobooków oraz dyrektorem Dominikańskiego Ośrodka Kaznodziejskiego.

Do zakonu dominikanów wstąpił w 1999 r. Pierwsze śluby zakonne złożył 18 sierpnia 2000 r. a wieczyste 18 kwietnia 2004 r. Święcenia kapłańskie w Zakonie Braci Kaznodziejów przyjął 4 grudnia 2004 r. Był m.in. duszpasterzem akademickim DA „Beczka” w Krakowie.

https://dominikanie.pl/

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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.

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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Jakub Szamałek

Urodzony w 1986 w Warszawie, gdzie obecnie mieszka. Pisarz, scenarzysta studia CD Projekt RED (producent gier Wiedźmin). Absolwent University of Oxford, doktor archeologii śródziemnomorskiej University of Cambridge, stypendysta Fundacji Billa i Melindy Gatesów. Fascynat starożytności, na temat której prowadzi bloga na portalu tygodnika “Polityka”. Za swoją debiutancką książkę, Kiedy Atena odwraca wzrok, otrzymał Nagrodę Wielkiego Kalibru Czytelników za rok 2011.

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Gaetano Mosca

Gaetano Mosca was an Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant. He is credited with developing the elite theory and the doctrine of the political class and is one of the three members constituting the Italian school of elitism together with Vilfredo Pareto and Robert Michels.

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Jerzy Andrzejewski

Jerzy Andrzejewski was a Polish novelist, short-story writer, and political dissident noted for his attention to moral issues important in 20th-century Poland and for his realistic fiction.

Andrzejewski was born into a middle-class family, and the young writer studied Polish language and literature at the University of Warsaw. The stories published in his first book, Drogi nieuniknione (1936; “Unavoidable Ways”), originally appeared in a right-wing periodical, with whom he soon severed relations. That volume was followed by the novel Ład serca (1938; “Heart’s Harmony”), in which Andrzejewski tried to find in Roman Catholic teachings solutions to the problems of contemporary life. During the German occupation of World War II, he participated

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G.V. Desani

Govindas Vishnoodas Desani or G. V. Desani, (1909–2000) was a Kenyan-born, British-educated Indian writer and Buddhist philosopher. The son of a merchant, he began his career as a journalist, and achieved fame with the cult novel All About H. Hatterr (1948), considered one of the finest examples of literature in English and a novel that compares favourably with Joyce's Ulysses. He was for a time a university professor in America, and spent many years engaged in meditation at various monasteries. A second volume, Hali and Collected Stories, was published in 1991.

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Viktor Fischl

Also known as
Avigdor Dagan
and אביגדור דגן

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Ewa Kozyra-Pawlak

Jednym z jej pierwszych wspomnień jest graffiti, które z wielką pasją wykonała kredkami świecowymi na ścianie swojego pokoju (korzystając z okazji, chciałaby przeprosić późniejszego właściciela tego lokalu). Bardzo wcześnie, z absolutną powagą, poświęciła się sztukom plastycznym, a szczególnie rzeźbie w plastelinie, haftom i szydełkowaniu. Gdy tylko ukończyła studia na ASP we Wrocławiu, niezwłocznie wróciła do klejenia, szycia i dziergania. Zilustrowała kilkanaście książek dla dzieci, pisze wiersze, kaligrafuje i tłumaczy, a w jej pracowni znajdują się tysiące kolorowych szmatek. Sypia na nich biało-rudy kocur, bohater bajki Ja, Bobik, czyli prawdziwa historia o kocie, który myślał, że jest królem, wyróżnionej przez Polską Sekcję IBBY w kon

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Sally Symes

Sally Symes has designed, written, and illustrated many books with numerous talented partners. She lives in England with her husband, two children, and Bumble the cat.

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Joanna Czeczott

Joanna Czeczott – politolożka i reporterka. Ukończyła stosunki międzynarodowe na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, studiowała też na Państwowym Uniwersytecie w Petersburgu i w Warszawskiej Szkole Filmowej. Pracowała w Przekroju. Jest jedną z twórczyń i założycielek pisma reporterskiego dla dzieci Kosmos dla Dziewczynek, którym kierowała pięć lat. Debiutowała książką Macierzyństwo non-fiction. Relacja z przewrotu domowego (jako Joanna Woźniczko-Czeczott), która była ważnym głosem w debacie o nowej roli matki Polki. Jej książka Petersburg. Miasto snu zdobyła nagrodę Warszawskiej Premiery Literackiej oraz Nagrodę Fundacji im. Kościelskich, a także znalazła się w finale Nagrody im. Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego.

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Photo: Barbara Piotrowska

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Nina Majewska-Brown

Nina Majewska-Brown jest absolwentką wydziału polonistyki na Uniwersytecie im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Przez lata pracowała w wielu wydawnictwach. Obecnie prowadzi dom i wychowuje synów.
Jej debiut Wakacje stał się jednocześnie najpopularniejszą wśród czytelników pozycją jej autorstwa jak i również cała seria Nina Brown, którą owa książka zapoczątkowała. Spod pióra autorki wyszła również inna seria zatytułowana Anka oraz kilka niezależnych powieści, do których zaliczamy chociażby Grzech oraz Tylko dla dorosłych.

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Włodzimierz Odojewski

Włodimierz Odojewski (Polen, 1930-2016) wrote numerous novels, stories, theater plays and poems. He was awarded many literary prizes. In 1971 he emigrated to Paris and subsequently to München, to return to Poland again in 1989.

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Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski was a Polish writer, journalist, traveler, globetrotter, explorer, anti-communist, university professor, a member of the French Academy, political activist.

After World War II all his books were covered by the censors in Poland because of his anti-communist beliefs. Only since 1989, his work can be officially published in Poland again.

He is best known for his books:

Beasts, Men and Gods – 1922
(org. title: Przez kraj ludzi, zwierząt i bogów. Konno przez Azję Centralną)

The Shadow of the Gloomy East: A Moral History of the Russian People – 1923
(org. title: Cień ponurego Wschodu. Za kulisami życia rosyjskiego)

Lenin: God of the Godless – 1930
(org. title: Lenin)

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Grzegorz Motyka

Urodzony w 1967 roku. Studia wyższe w latach 1987–1992 na Wydziale Nauk Humanistycznych Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego. Stopień doktora nauk humanistycznych w zakresie historii uzyskał w 1998 r. na podstawie rozprawy doktorskiej Walki polsko-ukraińskie na ziemiach dzisiejszej Polski w latach 1943–1948, napisanej pod kierunkiem prof. Tomasza Strzembosza. Stopień doktora habilitowanego nauk humanistycznych w zakresie nauk o polityce w roku 2007 na podstawie rozprawy habilitacyjnej Ukraińska partyzantka. Działalność Organizacji Ukraińskich Nacjonalistów i Ukraińskiej Powstańczej Armii 1942–1960.

Pracował w Instytucie Studiów Politycznych PAN, Pracowni Dziejów Ziem Wschodnich II RP, Zakładzie Najnowszej Historii Politycznej, (1994–1998 as

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Tadeusz Borowski

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