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Jacek Inglot (born 5 June 1962 in Siedlec) is a Polish science-fiction writer. His novels Inquisitor (1996) and Quietus (1997) were nominated for the Janusz A. Zajdel Award.
Jan Jakub Twardowski 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. He joined observations of nature with philosophical reflections.
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski was a Polish writer, explorer, university professor, and anti-Communist political activist. He is best known for his books about Lenin and the Russian Civil War in which he participated.
Marcin Baran is a Polish poet and journalist. He has a degree in Polonistics from the Jagiellonian University. He is one of the Polish poets who published their verses in the magazine bruLion.
Stanisław Barańczak was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to-Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakespeare and of the poetry of E.E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Wystan Hugh Auden, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Keats, Robert Frost, Edward Lear and others.
Jerzy Pilch was a Polish writer, columnist, and journalist. Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal.
Polska Liga Koszykówki (PLK) is a professional men's club basketball league in Poland. It constitutes the first and highest-tier level of the Polish league pyramid. The winning team of the final round are crowned the Polish Champions of that season. It began in 1947–48, with the name of I Liga, and was originally organized by the Polish Basketball Association. The league changed to its current form, beginning with the 1997–98 season, after the Polska Liga Koszykówki SA, PLK SA took control over the league. In 2000–01 season the league turned professional.
Ewa Lipska, is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into English, Italian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian. She lives in Vienna and Kraków.
Andrzej Nowak is a Polish historian and opinion journalist.
Zuzanna Ginczanka, pen name of Zuzanna Polina Gincburg 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 created a sensation in Poland's literary circles. She was arrested and executed in Kraków shortly before the end of World War II.
Helena of Znojmo, was a Bohemian princess, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty. She was the daughter of Duke Conrad II of Znojmo and his Serbian wife Maria of Rascia. Helena was probably named after her maternal aunt, Queen Helena of Hungary, wife of King Béla II.
Euphrosyne of Masovia also known as Eufrozja (1292–1328/1329) was Duchess of Oświęcim by her marriage.
Piotr Marek Napierała is a Polish historian, born in Poznań.
Piotr Antoni Wilczek is a Polish intellectual historian, a specialist in comparative literature and a literary translator, who currently serves as the Ambassador of Poland to the United States.
Natalia Tułasiewicz was a teacher in Poznań, Poland and a leader in the Catholic lay apostolate. A member of the Polish Underground State, she died in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, in a gas chamber. Tułasiewicz was beatified in 1999 as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.
Rafał Górski was a Polish historian, writer, anarchist, trade union and housing activist.
Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska, is a historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed by Kalisz, the oldest city in Poland.
Leszek of Dobrzyń, was a Polish prince member of the House of Piast and Duke of Dobrzyń during 1312-1316 with his brothers.
Bohdan Zadura is a Polish poet, translator and literary critic.
Józef Baran (born January 17, 1947 in Borzęcin is a Polish poet, living in Kraków.
Maciej Płaza is a Polish writer, literary scholar and translator of English literature.
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