Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, she resided in Kraków until the end of her life. In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors', though she wrote in a poem, "Some Like Poetry", that "perhaps" two in a thousand people like poetry.
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author. He received many awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".
Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt Krasiński was a Polish poet traditionally ranked with Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who influenced national consciousness in the period of Partitions of Poland. Of the three, he is considered the least influential.
Hanna Krall, 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.
Grażyna Miller was a Polish poet and translator who lived in Italy.
Jacek Maria Dehnel is a Polish poet, writer, translator and painter.
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual considered one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. In 2019 she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Her works include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob.
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, née Kossak, was a prolific Polish poet known as the Polish Sappho and "queen of lyrical poetry" during Poland's interwar period. She was also a dramatist.
Maria Kuncewiczowa was a Polish writer and novelist. Kuncewiczowa's works span from short stories to novels to radio novels to literary diaries.
Magdalena Tulli is a Polish novelist and translator, one of Poland's leading writers.
Zofia Romanowicz was a Polish émigré novelist, essayist, poet, and translator and an eminent member of the Polish literary and cultural communities in exile as well as Parisian intellectual circles.
Jakobe Mansztajn is a Polish poet and blogger.
Agata Tuszynska is a Polish writer, poet and journalist.
Sylwia Chutnik is a Polish novelist, writer, feminist and social activist.
Jarosław Mikołajewski is a Polish poet, writer and translator of the Italian language. He is also the author of children's books, essayist and journalist.
Julia Hartwig-Międzyrzecka was a Polish writer, poet and translator, considered to be one of Poland's most important poets.
Urszula Irena Zybura is a Polish poet, President of the Board of the Wielkopolska Branch of the Polish Writers' Union, publisher, and Esperantist.
Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna was a Polish poet, prose writer, playwright and translator. She was one of the most acclaimed and celebrated poets during Poland's interwar period.
Tatev Chakhian is a Poland-based Armenian poet, artist, editor and translator.
Izabela Zubko is a Polish poet.
