Janina Broniewska née Kunig (5 August 1904 – 17 February 1981) was a Polish writer, author of many stories for children and young adults, a publicist and teacher. She subscribed to radically leftist views and became a communist activist, writer and official. Broniewska was born in

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. Between 1934 and 1937, she was the editor of the magazine '' Płomyk'' ('Flame') for children. Following the

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, she collaborated with '' Sztandar Wolności'' ('The Banner of Freedom'), a newspaper published in

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. Between 1944 and 1946, she worked as editor for ''

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'' ('Armed Poland') magazine published at that time for the

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. Politically influential in the

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, Broniewska was secretary of the

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organization of the

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. She was the first wife of the poet

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and a close friend of

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. Broniewska died in

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at the age of 76.

Books

*''O człowieku, który się kulom nie kłaniał'' (1948, published by Książka in Warsaw) *''Dziesięć serc czerwiennych'' (1966)Janina Broniewska, OpenLibrary.org
/ref> *''Tamten brzeg mych lat'' (1973) *''Z notatnika korespondenta wojennego'' (1981)

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1904 births 1981 deaths People from Kalisz Polish communists Women in the Polish military Polish People's Army personnel Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1944–1989) Burials at Powązki Military Cemetery Polish children's writers Polish women children's writers 20th-century Polish women {{Poland-writer-stub