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List of Polish-language authors
Notable Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

novelists, poets, playwrights, historians and philosophers, listed in chronological order by year of birth:

(ca. 1465 – after 1529) Biernat of Lublin
Biernat of Lublin
Biernat of Lublin was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones...
(1503–1572) Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski was a Polish Renaissance scholar, humanist and theologian, called "the father of Polish democracy." His book De Republica emendanda was widely read and praised across most of Renaissance Europe.-Life:Modrzewski was born in Wolbórz Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (ca....

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and Latin language*
(1505–1569) Mikołaj Rej
(ca. 1525–1573) Piotr z Goniądza
Piotr z Goniadza
Piotr of Goniądz was a Polish political and religious writer, thinker and one of the spiritual leaders of the Polish Brethren.-Life:Little is known of his early life. He was born to a peasant family some time between 1525 and 1530 in the town of Goniądz...

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and Latin language*
(1530–1584) Jan Kochanowski
Jan Kochanowski
Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language.He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, and the greatest Slavic poet, prior to the 19th century.-Life:Kochanowski was born at...

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and Latin language*
(1566–1636) Fabian Birkowski
Fabian Birkowski
Fabian Birkowski was a Polish writer and preacher.Fabian was educated at the Kraków Academy in 1585 where he later 1587 lectured on Latin and Greek literature and taught philosophy. In 1596 he entered the Dominican order. He became known as an excellent orator...

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and Latin language*
(1580–1653) Szymon Okolski
Szymon Okolski
Szymon Okolski , also known as Simon Okolski, was a well-known Polish-Lithuanian historian, theologian, and specialist in heraldry. His own clan and coat of arms were that of Rawicz. Born in Kamieniec Podolski, died in Lviv. He headed chairs of theology in Lviv and Bologna...

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and Latin language*
(1694–1774) Przybysław Dyjamentowski
(1720–1784) Franciszek Bohomolec
Franciszek Bohomolec
Franciszek Bohomolec was a Polish dramatist, linguist, and theatrical reformer who was one of the principal playwrights of the Polish Enlightenment....

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and Latin language*
(1733–1798) Adam Naruszewicz
Adam Naruszewicz
Adam Stanisław Naruszewicz was a Polish nobleman from an impoverished aristocratic family, poet, historian, dramatist, translator, publicist, Jesuit and titular Bishop of Smolensk and bishop of Łuck .His family had a small estate in Polesie and he was educated at Pinsk.As a senator he...
(1734–1823) Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski
(1735–1801) Ignacy Krasicki
Ignacy Krasicki
Ignacy Krasicki , from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno , was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet , a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and...
(1746–1835) Izabela Fleming Czartoryska
Izabela Fleming
Princess Izabela Czartoryska was a Polish noble lady, writer, art collector, and founder of the first Polish museum, the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków.-Life:...
(1750–1812) Hugo Kołłątaj
(1755–1826) Stanisław Staszic
(1757–1841) Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz was a Polish poet, playwright and statesman. He was a leading advocate for the Constitution of May 3, 1791.-Life:...
(1761–1815) Jan Potocki
Jan Potocki
Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki was a Polish nobleman, Polish Army Captain of Engineers, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, traveler, adventurer and popular author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a legendary figure in his homeland...
(1762–1808) Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski
Franciszek Salezy Dmochowski
Franciszek Salezy Dmochowski was a Polish Romantic novelist, poet, translator, publisher, critic, and satirist. Father of Franciszek Salezy Dmochowski.-Biography:...
(1765–1809) Cyprian Godebski
Cyprian Godebski
Cyprian Godebski was a Polish poet, novelist, father of Franciszek Ksawery. An outstanding poet of the so-called "Legions Poetry".-Life:...
(1768–1854) Maria Wirtemberska
(1770–1861) Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski was a Polish-Lithuanian noble, statesman and author. He was the son of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and Izabela Fleming....

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

, French language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

and Russian language
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

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(1771–1820) Alojzy Feliński
Alojzy Felinski
Alojzy Feliński was a Polish writer.-Life:In his childhood he met Tadeusz Czacki. He was educated by the Piarists in Dąbrownica, later in Włodzimierz. In 1778 he settled in Lublin, where he became a close companion of Kajetan Koźmian...
(1786–1861) Joachim Lelewel
Joachim Lelewel
Joachim Lelewel was a Polish historian and politician, from a Polonized branch of a Prussian family.His grandparents were Heinrich Löllhöffel von Löwensprung and Constance Jauch , who later polonized her name to Lelewel.-Life:Born in Warsaw, Lelewel was educated at the Imperial University of...

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and French language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

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(1787–1861) Antoni Gorecki
Antoni Gorecki
Antoni Gorecki was a Polish poet and writer, author of satires and short stories for children.He was born in 1787 in Wilno, where he finished primary school. In 1802 he started studying at the Faculty of Literature of the University of Vilnius, where he became friends with Joachim Lelewel...
(1791–1835) Kazimierz Brodziński
Kazimierz Brodzinski
Kazimierz Brodziński 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, where he also graduated from the grammar school. He served in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw...
(1793–1876) Aleksander Fredro
Aleksander Fredro
Aleksander Fredro was a Polish poet, playwright and author.-Life:Count Aleksander Fredro, of the Bończa coat of arms, was born in the village of Surochów near Jarosław, then a crown territory of Austria. A landowner's son, he was educated at home. He entered the Polish army at age 16 and saw...
(1798–1855) Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and French language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

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(1801–1869) Franciszek Ksawery Godebski
Franciszek Ksawery Godebski
Franciszek Ksawery Godebski was a Polish writer and publicist.He was born in Frankenthal. Cyprian Godebski was his father, and Dobrogost his pseudonym....
(1801–1876) Seweryn Goszczyński
Seweryn Goszczynski
Seweryn Goszczyński was a Polish Romantic prose writer and poet.Goszczyński did not receive a thorough education because his parents were not well off. He studied with breaks in different schools, the Basilian School in Humań being the one where he stayed the longest period of time. At this school...
(1804–1886) Michał Czajkowski *Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and Ukrainian language
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....

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(1807–1875) Karol Libelt
Karol Libelt
Karol Libelt was a Polish philosopher, writer, political and social activist, social worker and liberal, nationalist politician, president of the PTPN.-Life and work:...
(1809–1849) Juliusz Słowacki
(1812–1859) Zygmunt Krasiński
Zygmunt Krasinski
Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Ludwig Zygmunt Krasiński , a Polish count, is traditionally ranked with Mickiewicz and Słowacki as one of Poland's Three National Bards — the trio of great Romantic poets who influenced national consciousness during the period of Poland's political bondage.-Life and...
(1812–1887) Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski was a Polish writer, historian and journalist who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews He is best known for his epic series on the history of Poland, comprising twenty-nine novels in seventy-nine parts.As a novelist writing about...
(1814–1894) August Cieszkowski
August Cieszkowski
Count August Cieszkowski was a Polish philosopher, economist and social and political activist...
(1817–1879) Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński
Ryszard Wincenty Berwinski
Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński was a noted Polish poet...
(1818–1876) Narcyza Żmichowska
Narcyza Zmichowska
Narcyza Żmichowska , also known under the pseudonym Gabryella, was a Polish novelist and poet...
(1819–1890) Agnieszka Baranowska
Agnieszka Baranowska
Agnieszka Lipska Baranowska was a Polish playwright and poet.Born on April 16, 1819 in Gostków near Łęczyca in a Polish szlachta family of Lipscy to Jacob Lipski and Marjania Zaluska, she spent her life in the Prussian partition, including the Grand Duchy of Poznań...
(1821–1883) Cyprian Kamil Norwid
(1829–1901) Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa
Lucyna Cwierczakiewiczowa
Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa was a Polish writer, journalist and author of Polish cookery books.Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa was born in Warsaw, in the notable family of von Bachman...
(1838–1897) Adam Asnyk
Adam Asnyk
Adam Asnyk , was a Polish poet and dramatist. Born September 11, 1838 in Kalisz to a szlachta family, he was educated for an heir of his family's estate. As such he received education at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Marymont and then the Medical Surgeon School in Warsaw. He...
(1839–1902) Adolf Dygasiński
Adolf Dygasinski
Adolf Dygasiński was a Polish novelist, publicist and educator. In Polish literature, he was one of the leading representatives of Naturalism....
(1841–1910) Eliza Orzeszkowa
Eliza Orzeszkowa
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(1846–1916) Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. A Polish szlachcic of the Oszyk coat of arms, 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...
(1847–1912) Bolesław Prus
(1849–1935) Michał Bobrzyński *Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and German language
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

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(1852–1930) Kazimierz Bartoszewicz
Kazimierz Bartoszewicz
Kazimierz Bartoszewicz was a Polish writer and historian. He spent at least part of his life in Kraków.In his last will he donated his collection to Museum of History and Art in Łódź, which is now named after him.- Works :...
(1858–1924) Ludwik Stasiak
Ludwik Stasiak
Ludwik Stasiak , was a Polish painter, illustrator, writer, journalist, essayist and publisher....
(1860–1921) Gabriela Zapolska
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...
(1860–1926) Jan Kasprowicz
Jan Kasprowicz
Jan Kasprowicz was a poet, playwright, critic and translator; a foremost representative of Young Poland.-Life:...
(1862–1949) Feliks Koneczny
Feliks Koneczny
Feliks Karol Koneczny was a Polish historian and social philosopher. Founder of the original system of the comparative science of civilizations.- Biography :...
(1864–1925) Stefan Żeromski
Stefan Zeromski
Stefan Żeromski 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.- Life :...
(1864–1935) Franciszek Nowicki
Franciszek Nowicki
Franciszek Henryk Siła-Nowicki was a Young Poland poet, a mountaineer, socialist activist, and designer of the Orla Perć High Tatras mountain trail.-Life:...
(1865–1940) Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer. He was a member of the Young Poland movement.-Life:...
(1867–1925) Władysław Reymont
(1868-1927) Stanisław Przybyszewski
(1869–1907) Stanisław Wyspiański
(1873–1940) Wacław Berent
(1874–1915) Jerzy Żuławski
(1874–1941) Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski
Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic above all, and translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish...
(1876–1945) Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski was a Polish writer, journalist, traveler, globetrotter, explorer and university professor...
(1877/79–1937) Bolesław Leśmian
(1878–1911) Stanisław Brzozowski
(1878/79–1942) Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit was a Polish-Jewish children's author, and pediatrician known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor...
(1881–1946) Paweł Hulka-Laskowski
(1884–1944) Leon Chwistek
Leon Chwistek
Leon Chwistek was a Polish avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art, literary critic, logician, philosopher and mathematician.-Logic and philosophy:...
(1885–1939) Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz {Witkacy}
(1885–1954) Zofia Nałkowska
(1886–1980) Władysław Tatarkiewicz
(1886–1981) Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Tadeusz Kotarbinski
Tadeusz Kotarbiński , a pupil of Kazimierz Twardowski, was a Polish philosopher, logician, one of the most representative figures of the Lwów-Warsaw School, and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning as well as the Polish Academy of Sciences...
(1887–1936) Stefan Grabiński
Stefan Grabinski
Stefan Grabiński was a Polish writer of horror fiction, sometimes called "the Polish Poe".Grabiński worked as teacher in Lwów and Przemyśl and is famous for his train stories collected in Demon ruchu . A number of stories were translated by Miroslaw Lipinski into English and published as The Dark...
(1889–1931) Tadeusz Hołówko
(1889–1965) Maria Dąbrowska
Maria Dabrowska
Maria Dąbrowska was a Polish writer.Dąbrowska was a member of the impoverished landed gentry. Interested both in literature and politics, she set herself up to help people born into poor circumstances. She studied sociology, philosophy, and natural sciences in Lausanne and Brussels and moved to...
(1890–1963) Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz was a Polish philosopher and logician, a prominent figure in the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic. He originated many novel ideas in semiotics, including the "categorial grammar" used by many formal linguists...
(1891–1945) Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, née Kossak , was a Polish poet known as the Polish Sappho and "queen of lyrical poetry" of Poland's interwar period...
(1892–1942) Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher born to Jewish parents, and regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born in Drohobycz, in the province of Galicia then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and spent...
(1893–1970) Roman Ingarden
Roman Ingarden
Roman Witold Ingarden was a Polish philosopher who worked in phenomenology, ontology and aesthetics.Before World War II, Ingarden published his works mainly in the German language...

*German language
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

and Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

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(1894–1942) Józef Stefan Godlewski
Józef Stefan Godlewski
Józef Stefan Godlewski was a Polish writer.He was imprisoned and died in the German concentration camp Auschwitz.-Works:* Warszawa * Śladami Wokulskiego...
(1894–1980) Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
(1894–1985) Arkady Fiedler
Arkady Fiedler
Arkady Fiedler was a Polish writer, journalist and adventurer.He studied philosophy and natural science at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and later in Poznań and the University of Leipzig...
(1895–1959) Stanislaw Mlodozeniec
(1897–1962) Władysław Broniewski
(1898–1939) Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
(1899–1956) Jan Lechoń
Jan Lechon
Leszek Józef Serafinowicz was a Polish poet, literary and theater critic, diplomat, and co-founder of the Skamander literary movement and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.-Life:Lechoń studied Polish language and literature at Warsaw University, by...
(1900–1966) Jan Brzechwa
Jan Brzechwa
Jan Brzechwa , , born Jan Wiktor Lesman in Żmerynka, Podolia to a Polish family of Jewish descent was a Polish poet and author, mostly known for his contribution to children's literature....
(1901–1964) Sergiusz Piasecki
Sergiusz Piasecki
Sergiusz Piasecki , was one of the best known Polish language writers of the mid 20th century. His crowning achievement, published in 1937, was the third most popular novel in the Second Polish Republic...
(1902–1970) Tadeusz Manteuffel
Tadeusz Manteuffel
Tadeusz Manteuffel or Tadeusz Manteuffel-Szoege was a Polish historian, specializing in the medieval history of Europe.- Biography :...
(1902–1985) Józef Mackiewicz
Jozef Mackiewicz
Józef Mackiewicz was a Polish writer and commentator. He staunchly opposed communism, referring to himself as "anticommunist by nationality".- Life and career :...
(1902–1995) Józef Maria Bocheński
Józef Maria Bochenski
Józef Maria Bocheński was a Polish Dominican, logician and philosopher.-Life:...

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

, German language
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

and English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

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(1904–1969) Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor...
(1905–1953) Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński
(1906–1965) Stanisław Jaśkowski
{1907–1991) Stanislaw Wygodzki
Stanislaw Wygodzki
Stanisław Wygodzki was a Polish writer of Jewish origin.He published his first volume of poetry in 1933 before the Nazi occupation of Poland, during which Wygodzki was first interred in the Bedzin ghetto and later in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen...
(1909–1966) Stanisław Jerzy Lec
(1909–1970) Paweł Jasienica
(1909–1983) Jerzy Andrzejewski
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Jerzy Andrzejewski was a prolific Polish author. His novels, Ashes and Diamonds , and Holy Week , have been made into film adaptations by the Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda...
(1910–2007) Stanisław Dobosiewicz
(1911–1975) Eugeniusz Żytomirski
Eugeniusz Zytomirski
Eugeniusz Żytomirski was a Polish poet, playwright and novelist, born in Taganrog, Russia and died in Toronto, Canada. He was a member of the literary group Kadra.-References:...
(1911–2004) Czesław Miłosz
(1912–1990) Adolf Rudnicki
Adolf Rudnicki
Adolf Rudnicki was a Polish-Jewish author and essayist, best known for his works about The Holocaust and the Jewish resistance in Poland during World War II....
(1913–1979) Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski
Zygmunt Witymir Bienkowski
Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski was a Polish pilot and a gifted writer of many articles and poems. His 303 squadron diary is deposited in the Polish Museum and Sikorski Institute in London...
(1913–2005) Józef Garliński
Józef Garlinski
Józef Garliński was a Polish historian and prose writer. He wrote many notable books on the history of World War II, some of which were translated into English...
(1914–1973) Bohdan Arct
Bohdan Arct
Bohdan Arct was a Polish fighter pilot of the Polish Air Force in World War II, and writer....
(1915–2006) Jan Twardowski
Jan Twardowski
Jan Jakub Twardowski was a famous Polish poet, but, as he said of himself, he was a priest first of all. He was a chief Polish representative of contemporary religious lyrics. He wrote short, simple poems, humorous, sometimes with colloquialisms...
(1916–1991) Wilhelm Szewczyk
Wilhelm Szewczyk
Wilhelm Szewczyk was a Polish writer, poet, literary critic, translator and activist of the National Radical Camp from the region of Silesia....
(1918–1963) Stanisław Grzesiuk
(1919–2000) Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński 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.-Biography:...
(1920–2006) Leslaw Bartelski
Leslaw Bartelski
Lesław Bartelski was a Polish writer, perhaps best known for his work, Warsaw Ghetto Thermopolye and his novel The Blood-stained Wings.-Early life:...
(1920–1985) Leopold Tyrmand
Leopold Tyrmand
Leopold Tyrmand was a Polish novelist and editor. He studied architecture for a year at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris before the war, and during the war was a resistance fighter in Poland, a waiter in Germany , and a prisoner in a Norwegian concentration camp...
(1920–2005) Karol Wojtyła {Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
Blessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...

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(1920–2006) Lucjan Wolanowski
Lucjan Wolanowski
Lucjan Wilhelm Wolanowski , pseudonyms: Wilk; Waldemar Mruczkowski; W. Lucjański; ; lu; Lu; ; WOL., Polish journalist, writer and traveller....
(1921–1944) Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most renowned authors of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets of whom many perished in the Warsaw Uprising.-Biography:...
(1921–2006) Stanisław Lem
(1922–1951) Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski 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 and had much influence in Central European society.- Early life :...
(1923–2001) Maksymilian Berezowski
Maksymilian Berezowski
Maksymilian Berezowski 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 Forces....
(1923–2003) Władysław Kozaczuk
(born 1923) Wisława Szymborska
(1924–1998) Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert was an influential Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement – Home Army during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers...
(born 1926) Tadeusz Konwicki
Tadeusz Konwicki
Tadeusz Konwicki is a Polish writer and film director, a member of the Polish Language Council.-Life:Konwicki was born in 1926 in Nowa Wilejka near Wilno, where he spent his early childhood. He spent his adolescence in Wilno, attending a local gymnasium...
(born 1927) Leszek Kołakowski
(born 1928) Roman Frister
Roman Frister
Roman Frister wrote "The Cap: The Price of a Life", an autobiographical account of his life living in Nazi occupied Poland and then Poland under the communists.Frister spent time in:...
(1929–1994) Zbigniew Nienacki
Zbigniew Nienacki
Zbigniew Nienacki was a pen name of Polish writer, Zbigniew Tomasz Nowicki.His works consist of adventure stories aimed at teenagers as well as adult novels...
(born 1930) Sławomir Mrożek
(1932–1957) Andrzej Bursa
Andrzej Bursa
Andrzej Bursa was a Polish poet and writer. Born in Kraków, he studied journalism, then Bulgarian at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1954–1957 Bursa worked as a journalist and reporter for the Kraków newspaper Dziennik Polski...
(born 1932) Joanna Chmielewska
Joanna Chmielewska
Joanna Chmielewska is the pen name of Irena Kühn , a Polish writer and screenplay author. Her work is often described as "ironic detective stories"...
(1932–2007) Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist and writer whose dispatches in book form brought him a global reputation. Also a photographer and poet, he was born in Pińsknow in Belarusin the Kresy Wschodnie or eastern borderlands of the second Polish Republic, into poverty: he would say later that...
(1934–1969) Marek Hłasko
(1934–1976) Stanisław Grochowiak
(1935–1984) Janusz Gaudyn
Janusz Gaudyn
Janusz Gaudyn was a Polish physician, writer and poet. He is known mostly for his aphorisms....
(born 1937) Hanna Krall
Hanna Krall
Hanna Krall is a Polish writer.-Childhood:Krall is of Jewish origin. During World War II she lost some of her close relatives. She survived the war only because she was hidden from the Nazis.-Journalism:...
(1938–1985) Janusz A. Zajdel
(born 1938) Janusz Głowacki
(1941–1989) Mirosław Dzielski
(born 1941) Leszek Długosz
(born 1944) Michał Heller
(born 1945) Małgorzata Musierowicz
(born 1947) Edward Dusza *Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
(born 1948) Andrzej Sapkowski
Andrzej Sapkowski
Andrzej Sapkowski, born 21 June 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his best-selling book series The Witcher.-Biography:...
(born 1949) Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm
(born 1950) Mirosława Kruszewska *Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
(born 1955) Leszek Engelking
Leszek Engelking
Leszek Engelking - Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator....
(born 1957) Grazyna Miller
Grazyna Miller
Grażyna Miller was a poet, born in Poland.She lived in Italy, where she wrote poems and translates publications from Polish into Italian. She was also a literary critic whose work was published by the most prestigious Italian press media...

*Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

and Italian language
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

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(born 1957) Paweł Huelle
(1958–2005) Tomasz Pacyński
Tomasz Pacynski
Tomasz Pacyński was a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer. He was one of the creators and since 2004 the chief editor of Fahrenheit, the first Polish Internet science fiction fanzine...
(born 1962) Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels,...
(born 1964) Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz
Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz
Rafał Aleksander Ziemkiewicz is a Polish political fiction and science fiction author and journalist.-Science-fiction writer:...
(born 1966) Andrzej Majewski
Andrzej Majewski
Andrzej Majewski, , is a Polish aphorist, writer, columnist and photographer. He graduated from The Economics Academy of Wrocław...
(born 1980) Jacek Dehnel
Jacek Dehnel
Jacek Dehnel in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish poet, writer, translator and painter. Dehnel studied at Warsaw University in the MISH College and graduated from the Polish Language and Literature department...
(born 1983) Dorota Masłowska

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