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novelists, poets, playwrights, historians and philosophers, listed in chronological order by year of birth: * (''ca.''1465–after 1529)

Biernat of Lublin Biernat of Lublin (Polish: ''Biernat z Lublina'', Latin ''Bernardus Lublinius'', ca. 1465 – after 1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator, and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most inte ...

* (1482–1537)

Andrzej Krzycki Andrzej Krzycki of the Kotwicz heraldic clan (also Andreas Cricius) (Krzycko Małe, 7 July 1482 – † Skierniewice, 10 May, 1537) was a Renaissance Polish writer and archbishop. Krzycki wrote in Latin prose, but wrote poetry in Polish. He is o ...

* (1503–1572) Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski * (1505–1569)

Mikołaj Rej Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice (4 February 1505 – between 8 September/5 October 1569) was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages, as well as a politician and musician. H ...

* (ca. 1525–1573) Piotr z Goniądza * (1530–1584)

Jan Kochanowski Jan Kochanowski (; 1530 – 22 August 1584) was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polish literary language. He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz. L ...

* (1566–1636)

Fabian Birkowski Fabian Birkowski (1566 in Lwów – 9 December 1636 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish writer and preacher.Fabian Birkowski

* (1580–1653) Szymon Okolski * (1651–1701) Anna Stanisławska * (1694–1774) Przybysław Dyjamentowski * (1720–1784) Franciszek Bohomolec * (1733–1798) Adam Naruszewicz * (1734–1823)

Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1 December 1734 – 19 March 1823) was an influential Polish aristocrat, writer, literary and theater critic, linguist, traveller and statesman. He was a great patron of arts and a candidate for the Polish crow ...

* (1735–1801)

Ignacy Krasicki Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki (3 February 173514 March 1801), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia (in German, ''Ermland'') and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno (thus, Primate of Poland), was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet"Ignacy Krasic ...

* (1746–1835) Izabela Fleming Czartoryska * (1750–1812)

Hugo Kołłątaj Hugo Stumberg Kołłątaj, also spelled ''Kołłątay'' (pronounced , 1 April 1750 – 28 February 1812), was a prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist, and one of the most prominent figures of the Polish Enlightenment. He s ...

* (1755–1826)

Stanisław Staszic Stanisław Wawrzyniec Staszic (baptised 6 November 1755 – 20 January 1826) was a leading figure in the Polish Enlightenment: a Catholic priest, philosopher, geologist, writer, poet, translator and statesman. A physiocrat, monist, pan-Slav ...

* (1757–1829)

Wojciech Bogusławski Wojciech Romuald Bogusławski (9 April 1757 – 23 July 1829) was a Polish actor, theater director and playwright of the Polish Enlightenment. He was the director of the National Theatre, Warsaw, (''Teatr Narodowy''), during three distinct peri ...

* (1757–1841)

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz ( , ; 6 February 1758 – 21 May 1841) was a Polish poet, playwright and statesman. He was a leading advocate for the Constitution of 3 May 1791. Early life Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz was born 6 February 1758 in Skoki, nea ...

* (1761–1815)

Jan Potocki Count Jan Potocki (; 8 March 1761 – 23 December 1815) was a Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a celebrated figure in Poland. He is known chiefly for his pi ...

* (1762–1808) Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski * (1765–1809) Cyprian Godebski * (1768–1854)

Maria Wirtemberska Princess Maria Czartoryska (formerly Duchess Louis of Württemberg; 15 March 1768, Warsaw – 21 October 1854, Paris), was a Polish noble, writer, musician and philanthropist. Life Maria Anna was a daughter of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartory ...

* (1770–1861)

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (; lt, Аdomas Jurgis Čartoriskis; 14 January 177015 July 1861), in English known as Adam George Czartoryski, was a Polish nobleman, statesman, diplomat and author. The son of a wealthy prince, he began his political c ...

* (1771–1820)

Alojzy Feliński Alojzy Feliński (1771 – 1820) was a Polish writer. Life Feliński was born in Łuck. In his childhood he met Tadeusz Czacki. He was educated by the Piarists in Dąbrownica, later in Włodzimierz Wołyński. In 1778 he settled in Lubli ...

* (1786–1861)

Joachim Lelewel Joachim Lelewel (22 March 1786 – 29 May 1861) was a Polish historian, geographer, bibliographer, polyglot and politician. Life Born in Warsaw to a Polonized German family, Lelewel was educated at the Imperial University of Vilna, where in ...

* (1787–1861) Antoni Gorecki * (1791–1835)

Kazimierz Brodziński Kazimierz Brodziński (8 March 1791 in Królówka – 10 October 1835 in Dresden) was an important Polish Romantic poet. Life He was born in Królówka near Bochnia. He came from the low nobility. He was a student at schools in Tarnów, whe ...

* (1793–1876)

Aleksander Fredro Aleksander Fredro (20 June 1793 – 15 July 1876) was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires. His works including plays written in the octosyllabic verse (''Zem ...

* (1798–1855)

Adam Mickiewicz Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (; 24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. A principal figure in Polish ...

* (1798–1845) Klementyna Hoffmanowa * (1801–1869)

Franciszek Ksawery Godebski Franciszek Ksawery Godebski (1801 – 17 May 1869) was a Polish writer and journalist. He was born in Frankenthal. Cyprian Godebski was his father, and Dobrogost his pseudonym. Franciszek was from 1822-1823 editor of several literature magazine ...

* (1801–1876)

Seweryn Goszczyński Seweryn Goszczyński (4 November 1801, Illintsi - 25 February 1876, Lviv) was a Polish Romantic prose writer and poet. Life He was born on 4 November 1801 in Ilińce, Russian Empire and hailed from a Polish noble family of the Pobóg coat of ar ...

* (1804–1886) Michał Czajkowski * (1807–1875)

Karol Libelt Karol Libelt (8 April 1807, neighborhood of Chwaliszewo in Poznań, Duchy of Warsaw - 9 June 1875, Brdowo) was a Polish philosopher, writer, political and social activist, social worker and liberal, nationalist politician, and president of the P ...

* (1809–1849)

Juliusz Słowacki Juliusz Słowacki (; french: Jules Slowacki; 4 September 1809 – 3 April 1849) was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the " Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of m ...

* (1812–1859)

Zygmunt Krasiński Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt Krasiński (; 19 February 1812 – 23 February 1859) was a Polish poet traditionally ranked after Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who influence ...

* (1812–1887)

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish writer, publisher, historian, journalist, scholar, painter, and author who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews, which makes him the ...

* (1814–1894)

August Cieszkowski Count August Dołęga Cieszkowski (; 12 September 1814 – 12 March 1894) was a Polish philosopher, economist and social and political activist. His Hegelian philosophy influenced the young Karl Marx and action theorists. Biography Cieszkowski w ...

* (1817–1879)

Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński (28 February 1817 in Polwica, Poznań, Prussia – 19 November 1879 in Constantinople, then part of the Ottoman Empire) was a noted Polish poet, translator, folklorist, and nationalist. Between 1852 and 1854 h ...

* (1818–1876) Narcyza Żmichowska * (1819–1890)

Agnieszka Baranowska Agnieszka Lipska Baranowska (1819–1890) was a Polish playwright and poet. Born on 16 April 1819 in Stary Gostków near Łęczyca in a Polish szlachta family of Lipscy to Jacob Lipski and Marjania Zaluska, she spent her life in the Prussian p ...

* (1821–1883)

Cyprian Kamil Norwid Cyprian Kamil Norwid, a.k.a. Cyprian Konstanty Norwid (; 24 September 1821 – 23 May 1883), was a nationally esteemed Polish poet, dramatist, painter, and sculptor. He was born in the Masovian village of Laskowo-Głuchy near Warsaw. One of h ...

* (1822–1899)

Edmund Chojecki Edmund Franciszek Maurycy Chojecki (; Wiski, Podlasie, 15 October 1822 – 1 December 1899, Paris) was a Polish journalist, playwright, novelist, poet and translator.'' Encyklopedia Polski'' (Encyclopedia of Poland): "Chojecki, Edmund"; p. 98, i ...

* (1829–1901)

Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa Lucyna von Bachman Ćwierczakiewiczowa () (17 October 1826 — 26 February 1901) was a Polish journalist and author of Polish cookery books. Life and career Ćwierczakiewiczowa was born Lucyna von Bachman in Warsaw, into an extravagant upper- ...

* (1838–1897) Adam Asnyk * (1839–1902) Adolf Dygasiński * (1841–1910)

Eliza Orzeszkowa Eliza Orzeszkowa (6 June 184118 May 1910) was a Polish novelist and a leading writerEliza Orzeszkowa< ...

* (1846–1916)

Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( , ; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (), was a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, espe ...

* (1847–1912)

Bolesław Prus Aleksander Głowacki (20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus (), was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world li ...

* (1849–1935) Michał Bobrzyński * (1852–1930)

Kazimierz Bartoszewicz Kazimierz Bartoszewicz (1852–1930) was a Polish writer and historian. He spent at least part of his life in Kraków. He was son of Julian Bartoszewicz Julian Bartoszewicz (1821–1870) was a Polish historian. Bartoszewicz wrote a biograph ...

* (1858–1924)

Ludwik Stasiak Ludwik Józef Stasiak (13 August 1858, Bochnia - 3 December 1924, Bochnia) was a Polish painter, cartoonist, journalist, art historian and publisher. He worked in a wide variety of genres and provided illustrations for magazines such as ' (Ivy), ...

* (1860–1921)

Gabriela Zapolska Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), 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, ...

* (1860–1926)

Jan Kasprowicz Jan Kasprowicz (12 December 1860 – 1 August 1926) was a poet, playwright, critic and translator; a foremost representative of Young Poland. Biography Kasprowicz was born in the village of Szymborze (now part of Inowrocław) within the Provi ...

* (1862–1949)

Feliks Koneczny Feliks Karol Koneczny (; 1 November 1862 – 10 February 1949) was a Polish historian, theatrical critic, librarian, journalist and social philosopher. He founded the original system of the comparative science of civilizations. Biography Kon ...

* (1864–1925)

Stefan Żeromski Stefan Żeromski ( ; 14 October 1864 – 20 November 1925) was a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under ...

* (1864–1935)

Franciszek Nowicki Franciszek Henryk Siła-Nowicki (29 January 1864, in Kraków, Austrian Empire – 3 September 1935, in Zawoja, Poland) was a Young Poland poet, a mountaineer, socialist activist, and designer of the ''Orla Perć'' (Eagle's Path) High Tatras mount ...

* (1865–1940)

Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (12 February 1865 – 18 January 1940) was a Polish Goral poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer. He was a member of the Young Poland movement. Life Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was born in Ludźmierz in P ...

* (1867–1925)

Władysław Reymont Władysław Stanisław Reymont (, born Rejment; 7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel ''Chłopi'' (''The Peasants' ...

* (1868–1927)

Stanisław Przybyszewski Stanisław Przybyszewski (; 7 May 1868 – 23 November 1927) was a Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet of the decadent naturalistic school. His drama is associated with the Symbolist movement. He wrote both in German and in Polish. Life Stan ...

* (1869–1907)

Stanisław Wyspiański Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański (; 15 January 1869 – 28 November 1907) was a Polish playwright, painter and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created a series of symbolic, national dramas withi ...

* (1870-1932)

Malwina Garfeinowa-Garska Malwina Garfeinowa-Garska (15 October 1870 in Warsaw – 19 September 1932 in Kraków), pseudonym Maria Zabojecka, was a Polish literary critic, translator from Scandinavian literature, prosaist, writer. She was the sister of Stanisław Posner. ...

* (1873–1940)

Wacław Berent Wacław Berent (Warsaw, 28 September 1878 – 19 November or 22 November 1940, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist, essayist and literary translator from the Art Nouveau period, publishing under the pen names S.A.M. and Wł. Rawicz. He studied Natu ...

* (1874–1915)

Jerzy Żuławski Jerzy Żuławski (; 14 July 1874 – 9 August 1915) was a Polish literary figure, philosopher, translator, alpinist and patriot whose best-known work is the science-fiction epic, ''Trylogia Księżycowa'' (''The Lunar Trilogy''), written be ...

* (1874–1941)

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (better known by his pen name, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński or simply as Boy; 21 December 1874 – 4 July 1941) was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic and, above all, the translator of over 100 French literary classics ...

* (1876–1945) Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski * (1877/79–1937)

Bolesław Leśmian Bolesław Leśmian (born Bolesław Lesman; January 22, 1877The exact date of his birth is disputed: the act of birth mentions 1877, Leśmian himself used 1878, while the date mentioned on his tombstone is 1879. – November 5, 1937) was a Pol ...

* (1878–1911) Stanisław Brzozowski * (1878/79–1942)

Janusz Korczak Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author and pedagogue known as ''Pan Doktor'' ("Mr. Doctor") or ''Stary Doktor'' ("Old Doctor"). After spending ...

* (1881–1946) Paweł Hulka-Laskowski * (1884–1944) Leon Chwistek * (1885–1939) Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) * (1885–1954)

Zofia Nałkowska Zofia Nałkowska (, Warsaw, Congress Poland, 10 November 1884 – 17 December 1954, Warsaw) was a Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–193 ...

* (1886–1980)

Władysław Tatarkiewicz Władysław Tatarkiewicz (; 3 April 1886, Warsaw – 4 April 1980, Warsaw) was a Polish philosopher, historian of philosophy, historian of art, esthetician, and ethicist. Early life and education Tatarkiewicz began his higher education a ...

* (1886–1981)

Tadeusz Kotarbiński Tadeusz Marian Kotarbiński (; 31 March 1886 – 3 October 1981) was a Polish philosopher, logician and ethicist. A pupil of Kazimierz Twardowski, he was one of the most representative figures of the Lwów–Warsaw School, and a member of the ...

* (1887–1936) Stefan Grabiński * (1889–1968)

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka Zofia Kossak-Szczucka ( (also Kossak-Szatkowska); 10 August 1889 – 9 April 1968) was a Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter. She co-founded two wartime Polish organizations: Front for the Rebirth of Poland and Żegota, set up t ...

* (1889–1931)

Tadeusz Hołówko Tadeusz Ludwik Hołówko (September 17, 1889 – August 29, 1931), codename ''Kirgiz'', was an interwar Polish politician, diplomat and author of many articles and books. He was most notable for his moderate stance on the "Ukrainian problem" face ...

* (1889–1965)

Maria Dąbrowska Maria Dąbrowska (; born Maria Szumska; 6 October 1889 – 19 May 1965) was a Polish writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, author of the popular Polish historical novel ''Noce i dnie'' (Nights and Days) written between 1932 and 19 ...

* (1890–1963) Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz * (1891–1963)

Gustaw Morcinek Gustaw Morcinek (born ''Augustyn Morcinek''; 25 August 1891 – 20 December 1963) was a Polish writer, educator and later member of Sejm from 1952 to 1957. He is considered one of the most important writers from Silesia. Biography In 1891, Morc ...

* (1891–1945) Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska * (1892–1942)

Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Acade ...

* (1893–1970)

Roman Ingarden Roman Witold Ingarden (; February 5, 1893 – June 14, 1970) was a Polish philosopher who worked in aesthetics, ontology, and phenomenology. Before World War II, Ingarden published his works mainly in the German language. During the war, he sw ...

* (1894–1942)

Józef Stefan Godlewski Stefan Józef Godlewski (5 August 1894 in Warsaw – 6 September 1942 in Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (i ...

* (1894–1969) Kazimierz Wierzyński * (1894–1980)

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Jarosław Leon Iwaszkiewicz, also known under his literary pseudonym Eleuter (20 February 1894 – 2 March 1980), was a Polish writer, poet, essayist, dramatist and translator.Bartłomiej Szleszyński, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. 2003 Culture.plJaros ...

* (1894–1985) Arkady Fiedler * (1895–1959)

Stanislaw Mlodozeniec Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, Cal ...

* (1896–1945) Ferdynand Ossendowski * (1897–1962) Władysław Broniewski * (1898–1939) Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz * (1899–1956) Jan Lechoń * (1900–1966)

Jan Brzechwa Jan Brzechwa (), (15 August 1898 – 2 July 1966) was a Polish poet, author and lawyer, known mostly for his contribution to children's literature. He was born Jan Wiktor Lesman to a Polish family of Jewish descent.

* (1901–1938) Bruno Jasieński * (1901–1964) Sergiusz Piasecki * (1902–1970)

Tadeusz Manteuffel Tadeusz Manteuffel or Tadeusz Manteuffel-Szoege (1902–1970) was a Polish historian, specializing in the medieval history of Europe. Manteuffel was born in Rēzekne, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Latvia). His brothers were Leon Ma ...

* (1902–1985) Józef Mackiewicz * (1902–1995)

Józef Maria Bocheński Józef Maria Bocheński or Innocentius Bochenski ( Czuszów, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, 30 August 1902 – 8 February 1995, Fribourg, Switzerland) was a Polish Dominican, logician and philosopher. Biography Born on 30 August 1902 in ...

* (1903–1978) Aleksander Kamiński * (1904–1969)

Witold Gombrowicz Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his fi ...

* (1905–1953)

Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (23 January 1905 – 6 December 1953), alias ''Karakuliambro'', was a Polish poet. He is well known for the "paradramatic" absurd humorous sketches of the ''Green Goose Theatre''. Biography Born to a lower-mi ...

* (1905–1982)

Adam Ważyk Adam Ważyk born Ajzyk Wagman (November 17, 1905 – August 13, 1982) was a Polish poet, essayist and writer born to a Jewish family in Warsaw. In his early career, he was associated with the Kraków avant-garde led by Tadeusz Peiper who publish ...

* (1906–1965)

Stanisław Jaśkowski Stanisław Jaśkowski (22 April 1906, in Warsaw – 16 November 1965, in Warsaw) was a Polish logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. He was a student of Jan Łukasiewicz and a member of the Lwów–W ...

* (1907–1991) Stanislaw Wygodzki * (1908–1979) Sydor Rey * (1908–1988)

Teodor Parnicki Teodor Parnicki (1908–1988) was a Polish writer, notable for his historical novels. He is especially renowned for works related to the early medieval Middle East, the late Roman and the Byzantine Empires. Life Teodor Parnicki was born March 5, ...

* (1908–1980) Aleksander Baumgardten * (1909–1942)

Henryka Łazowertówna Henryka Łazowertówna (; ''in full'' Henryka Wanda Łazowertówna); ''also'' Henryka Lazowert, or incorrectly Lazawert, (June 19, 1909, Warsaw – August 1942, Treblinka extermination camp) was a Polish lyric poet. While in general deeply p ...

* (1909–1966)

Stanisław Jerzy Lec Stanisław Jerzy Lec (; 6 March 1909 – 7 May 1966), born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, was a Polish aphorist and poet. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-war Poland, he was one of the most influential aphorists of the 20 ...

* (1909–1970)

Paweł Jasienica Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar (10 November 1909 – 19 August 1970), a Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier. During World War II, Jasienica (then, Leon Beynar) fought in the Polish Army, and later, the ...

* (1909–1983)

Jerzy Andrzejewski Jerzy Andrzejewski (; 19 August 1909 – 19 April 1983) was a prolific Polish writer. His works confront controversial moral issues such as betrayal, the Jews and Auschwitz in the wartime. His novels, '' Ashes and Diamonds'' (about the immediat ...

* (1909–1988) Józef Łobodowski * (1910–1978) Maria Boniecka * (1910–2007) Stanisław Dobosiewicz * (1911–1975) Eugeniusz Żytomirski * (1911–2004)

Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, ...

* (1912–1990)

Adolf Rudnicki Adolf Rudnicki, born Aron Hirschhorn (February 19, 1912, Żabno − November 14, 1990, Warsaw) was a Polish author and essayist, best known for his works about The Holocaust and the Jewish resistance in Poland during World War II. Biography He w ...

* (1913–1979)

Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski (2 May 1913 Warsaw – 15 August 1979) was a Polish pilot and a writer of many articles and poems. His 303 squadron diary is held in the Polish Museum and Sikorski Institute in London. Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski w ...

* (1913–2005)

Józef Garliński Józef Garliński (14 October 1913 - 29 November 2005) was a Polish historian and prose writer. He was a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp and wrote books on the history of World War II, some of which were translated into English. In par ...

* (1914–1973) Bohdan Arct * (1915–2006)

Jan Twardowski Jan Jakub Twardowski (1 June 1915 – 18 January 2006) was a Polish poet and Catholic priest. He was a chief Polish representative of contemporary religious lyrics. He wrote short, simple poems, humorous, which often included colloquialisms ...

* (1916–1991)

Wilhelm Szewczyk Wilhelm Szewczyk (5 January 1916 – 8 June 1991) was a Polish writer, poet, literary critic, translator, activist of the National Radical Camp, communist, and member of parliament from the region of Silesia. He was born in Czuchów (now par ...

* (1917–1944)

Zuzanna Ginczanka Zuzanna Ginczanka, ''pen name'' of Zuzanna Polina Gincburg (March 22, 1917 – January 1945) was a Polish-Jewish poet of the interwar period. Although she published only a single collection of poetry in her lifetime, the book ''O centaurach'' (' ...

* (1918–1963) Stanisław Grzesiuk * (1919–2000)

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (; May 20, 1919 − July 4, 2000) was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident abroad during the communist system in Poland. He is best known for writing a personal ...

* (1919–2011) Marian Pankowski * (1920–2006) Leslaw Bartelski * (1920–1985) Leopold Tyrmand * (1920–2005)

Karol Wojtyła Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

(Pope John Paul II) * (1920–2006) Lucjan Wolanowski * (1921–1944)

Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (; nom de guerre: Jan Bugaj; 22 January 1921 – 4 August 1944) was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most well known of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets, of whom several ...

* (1921–2006)

Stanisław Lem Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirica ...

* (1922–1951)

Tadeusz Borowski Tadeusz Borowski (; 12 November 1922 – 3 July 1951) was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish literature. Early life Boro ...

* (1923–2001)

Maksymilian Berezowski Maksymilian Berezowski (14 May 1923 in Vilnius – 30 July 2001 in Sopot) was a Polish author, journalist, and erudite scholar. Berezowski studied at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow and later held the rank of Major in the Polish Armed Fo ...

* (1923–2003)

Władysław Kozaczuk Władysław Kozaczuk (23 December 1923 – 26 September 2003) was a Polish Army colonel and a military and intelligence historian. Life Born in the village of Babiki near Sokółka, Kozaczuk joined the army in 1944, during World War II, at Bia� ...

* (1923–2012)

Wisława Szymborska Maria Wisława Anna SzymborskaVioletta Szosta gazeta.pl, 9 February 2012. ostęp 2012-02-11 (; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent ( ...

* (1924–1998)

Zbigniew Herbert Zbigniew Herbert (; 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume titled ...

* (born 1925) Bat-Sheva Dagan * (1926–2015) Tadeusz Konwicki * (1927–2009)

Leszek Kołakowski Leszek Kołakowski (; ; 23 October 1927 – 17 July 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his three-volume history, ''Main Currents of Marxism'' (1976) ...

* (1928–2015) Roman Frister * (1929–1994)

Zbigniew Nienacki Zbigniew Nienacki (January 1, 1929 in Łódź – September 23, 1994 in Morąg) was a pen name of Polish writer, Zbigniew Tomasz Nowicki. He was most known for his Pan Samochodzik (Mister Automobile) series. Biography His works consist of ad ...

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Sławomir Mrożek Sławomir Mrożek (29 June 1930 – 15 August 2013) was a Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist. 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 politica ...

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Bogdan-Dawid Wojdowski Bogdan-Dawid Wojdowski ( yi, בוגדאן-דוד ווידובסקי,30 November 1930 –21 April 1994) was a Polish-Jewish writer of Yiddish (that is, Ashkenazic) background. Name The writer was born Dawid Wojdowski. During World War II, under ...

* (born 1932) Wiesław Myśliwski * (1932–1957) Andrzej Bursa * (1932–2013)

Joanna Chmielewska Joanna Chmielewska was the pen name of Irena Kühn née Becker (2 April 1932 – 7 October 2013), a Polish novelist and screenwriter. Her work is often described as "ironic detective stories". Her novels, which have been translated into at leas ...

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Ryszard Kapuściński Ryszard Kapuściński (; 4 March 1932 – 23 January 2007) was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author. He received many awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in bo ...

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Jerzy Kosiński Jerzy Kosiński (born Józef Lewinkopf; ; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II and, as ...

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Joanna Olczak-Ronikier Joanna Olczak-Ronikier (born 12 November 1934) is a Polish writer and scenarist, co-founder of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret in Kraków. Biography Joanna Olczak was born on 12 November 1934 in Warsaw to a Polish-Jewish family, as a daught ...

* (1934–1969) Marek Hłasko * (1934–1976) Stanisław Grochowiak * (1935–1984) Janusz Gaudyn * (born 1936)

Henryk Grynberg Henryk Grynberg (born 1936 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer and actor who survived the Nazi occupation. He is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright and essayist who had authored more than thirty books of prose and poetry and two dramas. G ...

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Agnieszka Osiecka Agnieszka Osiecka (Polish pronunciation: ; 9 October 1936 – 7 March 1997) was a Polish poet, writer, author of theatre and television screenplays, film director and journalist. She was a prominent Polish songwriter, having authored the lyrics to ...

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Hanna Krall Hanna Krall (born 1935), is a Polish writer with a degree in journalism from the University of Warsaw, specializing among other subjects in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Personal life Krall is of Jewish origin, the daughter of S ...

* (1938–1985) Janusz A. Zajdel * (1938–2017)

Janusz Głowacki Janusz Andrzej Głowacki (13 September 1938 – 19 August 2017), better known as Janusz Głowacki or colloquially simply as Głowa, was a Polish playwright, essayist and screenwriter. Głowacki was the recipient of multiple awards and honours, in ...

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Mirosław Dzielski Mirosław Dzielski (1941–1989) was a Polish philosopher, writer and politician, founder of the Kraków Industrial Society (Krakowskie Towarzystwo Przemysłowe) in 1985. Dzielski was one of the leaders of the democratic anti-communist oppos ...

* (born 1941)

Leszek Długosz Leszek Marek Długosz (born 18 June 1941 in Zaklików) is a Polish actor, poet, writer and composer. For many years he has been a member of cabaret " Piwnica pod Baranami", one of the most famous cabarets during the times of People's Republic o ...

* (1943–2020) Wojciech Karpiński * (born 1944) Michał Heller * (born 1945) Małgorzata Musierowicz * (1946–2015) Piotr Domaradzki * (born 1946)

Ewa Kuryluk Ewa Kuryluk (born 5 May 1946) is a Polish artist. She is a pioneer of textile installation, painter, photographer, art historian, novelist and poet, and the author of numerous books, written in Polish and English, many of which have been translat ...

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Andrzej Sapkowski Andrzej Sapkowski (; born 21 June 1948) is a Polish fantasy writer, essayist, translator and a trained economist. He is best known for his six-volume series of books ''The Witcher'', which revolves around the eponymous "witcher," a monster-hunte ...

* (born 1949) Stefan Chwin * (born 1949) Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm * (born 1950) Stanisław Bereś * (born 1952)

Eva Stachniak Eva Stachniak (born 1952) is a Polish-Canadian novelist. Biography Stachniak came to Canada in 1981 to study at McGill University, and remained in the country after the imposition of martial law in Poland prevented her from returning home. She w ...

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Jerzy Pilch Jerzy Pilch (; 10 August 1952 – 29 May 2020) was a Polish writer, columnist, and journalist. Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal. Early life and education Born and raised in the small ...

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* (born 1955) Magdalena Tulli * (born 1957) Grazyna Miller * (born 1957) Paweł Huelle * (born 1957) Agata Tuszynska * (born 1957) Grażyna Wojcieszko * (1958–2005) Tomasz Pacyński * (born 1960) Andrzej Stasiuk * (born 1960) Andrzej Ziemiański * (born 1961)

Agnieszka Taborska Agnieszka Taborska (born 1961 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer, art historian, specialist in Surrealism, translator, and educator. Life and work She received Master of Arts, MAs from the University of Warsaw (art history, 1986 and French philology ...

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Olga Tokarczuk Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland; in 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize ...

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Jarosław Grzędowicz Jarosław Grzędowicz (born 3 May 1965) is a Polish science-fiction and fantasy writer. His first published piece was a short story in 1982. He was one of the founders of ''Fenix'' magazine in 1990 and its chief editor from 1993 till its suspe ...

* (born 1966) Andrzej Majewski * (born 1966)

Marek Krajewski Marek Krajewski (born 4 September 1966, in Wrocław) is a Polish crime writer and linguist. He is best known for his series of novels set in pre-war Wrocław (which was, at the time, Breslau) with the policeman Eberhard Mock as the protagon ...

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Mariusz Szczygieł Mariusz Adam Szczygieł (Polish pronunciation: ; born 5 September 1966 Złotoryja, Poland) is a Polish journalist and writer. He is the winner of the 2009 European Book Prize for ''Gottland'' and the 2019 Nike Award, the most important prize in ...

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Ewa Białołęcka Ewa Białołęcka (born 14 December 1967 in Elbląg) is a Polish fantasy writer. She currently lives in Gdańsk. Her literary debut was her short story ''Wariatka'' (Madwoman), published in 1993. Since then she has written more than a dozen short ...

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Joanna Bator Joanna Bator (born 2 February 1968) is a Polish novelist, journalist, feminist and academic. She specializes in cultural anthropology and gender studies. She is the recipient of the 2013 Nike Award. Life and career She was born to Jewish pa ...

* (born 1971) Anna Brzezińska * (born 1972) Wojciech Kuczok * (born 1974)

Jacek Dukaj Jacek Józef Dukaj (born 30 July 1974) is a Polish science fiction and fantasy writer. He has received numerous literary prizes including the European Union Prize for Literature and Janusz A. Zajdel Award. Career He was born on 30 July 197 ...

* (born 1974) Andrzej Pilipiuk * (born 1975) Michał Witkowski * (born 1976) Zygmunt Miłoszewski * (born 1976) Anna Kańtoch * (born 1977) Łukasz Orbitowski * (born 1978)

Żanna Słoniowska Żanna Słoniowska ( uk, Слоньовська Жанна; born in Lviv, 1978) is a Polish novelist and journalist. She was the first winner of the Znak literary prize for her novel '' The House with the Stained-Glass Window'' and a Conrad Priz ...

* (born 1979) Sylwia Chutnik * (born 1980) Jacek Dehnel * (born 1982) Jakub Ćwiek * (born 1983)

Dorota Masłowska Dorota Masłowska (Polish pronunciation:; born 3 July 1983) is a Polish writer, playwright, columnist and journalist. Life and work Masłowska was born in Wejherowo, and grew up there. She applied for the University of Gdańsk's faculty of p ...

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Joanna Lech Joanna Lech (born 25 January 1984, in Rzeszów, Poland) – a Polish poet and writer. Author of ''Zapaść'', ''Nawroty'' (nominated for NIKE Literary Award 2011), ''Trans'', ''Piosenki Pikinierów'' and ''Sztuczki'' (nominated for NIKE Literary ...

* (born 1985) Xawery Stańczyk * (born 1989)

Weronika Murek Weronika Murek (born 1989) is a Polish playwright, short story writer and essayist. Early life and education Weronika Murek was born in 1989, in Bytom. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia. C ...

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