Compulsory reading, required reading or school reading refers to a work of literature that is a required reading assignment in an educational system. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
In Poland, the list of required reading (Polish : lektura szkolna) was established in the early 20th century and has continued till today. [11] [13]
Stanisław Kot was a Polish historian and politician. A native of the Austrian partition of Poland, early in life he was attracted to the cause of Polish independence. As a professor of the Jagiellonian University (1920–1933), he held the chair of the History of Culture. His principal expertise was in the politics, ideologies, education, and literature of the 16th- and 17th-century Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He is particularly known for his contributions to the study of the Reformation in Poland.
Roman Franciszek Rybarski was a Polish economist and politician. He was the foremost economist of the right-wing National Democracy political camp and creator of its economic program.
Extensa is a 2002 science fiction novel written by Jacek Dukaj, Polish science fiction writer. It is the second stand alone novels by Dukaj, and the first published by Wydawnictwo Literackie, marking the writer's growing recognition in Poland.
Władysław Orkan was a Polish Goral writer and poet from the Young Poland period. He is known as one of the greatest Goral writers. The most famous of his works portray the common people from the region and Goral history.
Kevin J. Hannan was an American ethnolinguist and slavicist.
Wilhelm Szewczyk was a Polish writer, poet, literary critic, translator, activist of the National Radical Camp, communist, and member of parliament from the region of Silesia.
Idzi Jan Panic is Polish historian, professor at the University of Silesia. He is specializing in history of Cieszyn Silesia and medieval Poland.
Nowodwór is a village in Ryki County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Nowodwór. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) east of Ryki and 55 km (34 mi) north-west of the regional capital Lublin.
Zaczarowany ołówek is a Polish cartoon from 1964 to 1976 made by Se-ma-for.
Eugenia Mandal is a Polish social psychologist, holder of a postdoctoral degree in Psychology. She is currently a professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Silesia, Poland.
Piotr Antoni Wilczek is a Polish intellectual historian, a specialist in comparative literature and a literary translator, who served as the Ambassador of Poland to the United States (2016–2021) and the United Kingdom.
University of Silesia Press was founded in 1968 as the Publishing Department of the University of Silesia, concurrently with the foundation of the University of Silesia in Katowice. On 1 September 1975 it was transformed into a full fledged publishing house.
Magdalena Jolanta Koch is a Polish academic, a specialist in Serbian and Croatian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, she has specialized in Gender studies, identity, transculturalism of the Balkans as well as modern Serbian and Croatian drama.
Anna Parzymies is a Polish arabist, doctor of oriental studies, and professor at Warsaw University.
Jolanta Maria Żyndul is a Polish historian, a specialist on modern Jewish history and Polish-Jewish relations in 19th and 20th century.
Jan Muscenius, was a Polish astronomer, theologian, and the rector of Kraków Academy.
Mariola Grażyna Antczak is a Polish bibliologist and informatologist, associate professor and head of the Department of Information, Library and Book Studies at University of Łódź.
Barbara Rozalia Terakowska (1938–2004), known as Dorota Terakowska, was a Polish writer and journalist best known for her fantasy books for children and young adults, two of which became required reading at Polish schools. Her novel Córka czarownic was included in the IBBY Honour List and received the Polish IBBY section literary award; it also became her most translated work. Before focusing on literature in 1980s, Terakowska wrote for various newspapers and magazines such as Gazeta Krakowska and Przekrój.
Lucja Miller Rucinska was a Polish composer and pianist who lived in Ukraine for many years. She published and performed under the name Lucja Rucinska.
Zwycięzcy oceanu is the debut travel-adventure and maritime novel for young adults by Polish writer Władysław Umiński. The book tells the story of three daredevils traveling in a small boat from America to China. It was first published in 1890 serialized in a magazine; it received a book edition in 1891. The novel has been subsequently reprinted several times and translated into Czech.