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.
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
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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.
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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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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]
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
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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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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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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.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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Stanisław Wyspiański
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Witold Pilecki
During World War I, in 1918, Pilecki joined a ZHP Scout section of the Polish self-defense units under General Władysław Wejtko in the Wilno area. When his sector of the front was overrun by the Bolsheviks, his unit for a time conducted partisan warfare behind enemy lines. Pilecki then joined the regular Polish Army and took part in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1920, serving under Major Jerzy Dąbrowski. He fought in the Polish retreat from Kiev as part of a cavalry unit defending Grodno (in present-day Belarus). On 5 August 1920, he joined the 211th Uhlan Regiment and fought in the crucial Battle of Warsaw and at Rudniki Forest (Puszcza Rudnicka) and took part in the liberation of Wilno.He was twice awarded the Krzyż Walecznych (Cross of V
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Gabriela Zapolska
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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.
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Virgilio Piñera
Virgilio Piñera Llera was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.
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Among his most famous poems are "La isla en peso" (1943), and "La gran puta" (1960). He was a member of the "Origenes" literary group, although he often differed with the conservative views of the group. In the late 1950s he co-founded the literary journal Ciclón. Following a long exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Piñera returned to Cuba in 1958, months before Fidel Castro took power.
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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 -
Stefan Grabiński
Stefan Grabiński (February 26, 1887 - November 12, 1936) was a Polish writer of horror fiction, sometimes called "the Polish Poe".
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Grabiński worked as teacher in Lwów and Przemyśl and is famous for his train stories collected in Demon ruchu (The Motion Demon). A number of stories were translated by Miroslaw Lipinski into English and published as The Dark Domain. In addition, some of his work has been adapted to film, such as Szamota's Mistress.
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Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
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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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Leonard J. Pełka
Doktor nauk humanistycznych, nauczyciel akademicki, członek Polskiego Towarzystwa Religioznawczego, Polskiego Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego i Polskiego Towarzystwa Uniwersalistycznego. Współpracował z pismami "Studia religioznawcze", "Nomos. Kwartalnik religioznawczy", "Lud", "Parerga. Międzynarodowe studia filozoficzne" i "Res Humana".
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Był uczniem Bohdana Baranowskiego. Doktorat uzyskał w 1977 r. na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim broniąc pracę pt. Demonologia ludowa regionu lubelsko-rzeszowskiego (studium etnologiczno-historyczne). -
Ján Kalinčiak
Slovenský spisovateľ a básnik.
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Pochádzal zo sedliackej rodiny v Hornom Záturčí, kde jeho otec bol evanjelickým kňazom a matka zemankou. Študoval v Záturčí, Necpaloch, Gemeri, neskôr v Levoči a od roku 1839 v Bratislave. O niekoľko rokov neskôr študoval i v nemeckom Halle. Pôsobil ako vychovávateľ a od roku 1846 pôsobil (vďaka Štúrovej intervencii) ako učiteľ filozofie a rektor na gymnáziu v Modre. Od roku 1858 (do 1869) bol riaditeľom na gymnáziu v Sliezskom Tešíne, kde sa stretával s M. M. Hodžom. Po odchode do penzie sa presťahoval do Martina, a stal sa redaktorom mesačníka Orol. Pochovaný je na Národnom cintoríne v Martine.
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H. Bedford-Jones
Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887–1949) was a Canadian historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908. After being encouraged to try writing by his friend, writer William Wallace Cook, Bedford-Jones began writing dime novels and pulp magazine stories. Bedford-Jones was an enormously prolific writer; the pulp editor Harold Hersey once recalled meeting Bedford-Jones in Paris, where he was working on two novels simultaneously, each story on its own separate typewriter. Bedford-Jones cited Alexandre Dumas as his main influence, and wrote a sequel to Dumas' The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan (1928). He wrote over 100 novels, earning the nickname "King of the Pul
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Rafał Wojaczek was a Polish poet and writer.
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As a poète maudit, his life was marked by abortive studies, alcoholism, depression and suicide attempts. He commited suicide by an overdose of various drugs, including diazepam.
His short career took place during the turbulent years of modern Poland when the younger generation began to realize that they were trapped in a mendacious political system.
His works focused on topics of life and death, obsession on carnality and feminity. He also provoked with presenting himself as an alcoholic and a sponger. He was famous for his frequent riots, scandals and alcoholism.
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Stanisław Grzesiuk
Stanisław Grzesiuk (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf ˈɡʐɛɕuk]; 6 May 1918, Małków, Łęczna County - 21 January 1963) was a Polish writer, poet, singer, and comedian. He is notable as one of the few public figures to use and promote the singing style and dialect of pre-war Warsaw after their near extinction in the aftermath of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
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Stanisław Grzesiuk was born May 6, 1918 in Małków near Chełm. Early in his life his family moved to Warsaw's borough of Czerniaków, a distinct cultural area populated mostly by factory workers and other working poor. After graduating from a local trade school he started work as an electro-technician for various enterprises. After the outbreak of World War II he was arrested by the Germans in 19