Tadeusz Różewicz was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of foreign partitions. He was born in Radomsko, near Łódź, in 1921. He first published his poetry in 1938. During World War II, he served in the Polish underground Home Army. His elder brother, Janusz, also a poet, was executed by the Gestapo in 1944 for serving in the Polish resistance movement. His younger brother, Stanisław, became a noted film director and screenwriter.
Zbigniew Herbert 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, soon after he voluntarily ceased submitting most of his works to official Polish government publications. He resumed publication in the 1980s, initially in the underground press. Since the 1960s, he has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His books have been translated into 38 languages.
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.
Mira Kuś is a contemporary Polish poet. She lives in Kraków and is a journalist and member of the Polish Writers Association.
Ewa Lipska, is a Polish poet from the Polish New Wave generation. Collections of her poetry have been translated into English, French, Italian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian. She lives in Vienna and Kraków.
Leszek Maria Engelking was a Polish poet, short story writer, novelist, translator, literary critic, essayist, Polish philologist, and literary academic, scholar, and lecturer.
Wanda Dynowska (Umadevi) Polish theosophist, writer, translator, publisher, social activist, promoter of intercultural exchanges between India and Poland, jogini, foundress of the Indian-Polish Library.
Edward Pasewicz is a Polish writer, poet and composer. Laureate of VIII edition of Ogólnopolski Konkurs Poetycki im. Jacka Bierezina (2000). In 2007, he was nominated to Gdynia Literary Prize for a book Henry Berryman Pięśni. His poems were translated into several languages: German, English, Czech, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Serbian, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Ukrainian and Russian. In 2011 he was granted a scholarship from Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland). In 2022, he was awarded the Angelus Award for his novel Pulverkopf.
Janusz Adam Kobierski is a Polish poet and priest of the Catholic Church
Jan Strządała is a Polish poet.
Józef Baran is a Polish poet.
Krystyna Lenkowska is a Polish poet and translator. She has been included in the representative anthology of Polish women poets Scattering the Dark. Her translation of poems by Emily Dickinson, the Brontës, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, Ruth Padel, Dana Gioia have been published in the literary Polish journals and books. She lives in Rzeszow.
Urszula Kozioł is a Polish poet and writer. She is a recipient of the Silesius Poetry Award (2011) and the Nike Award (2024).
Ryszard Krynicki is a Polish poet and translator, member of the Polish "New Wave" Movement. He is regarded as one of the most prominent post-war contemporary Polish poets. In 2015, he was awarded the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award as a recognition for his poetry works.
Izabela Zubko is a Polish poet.
Mieczysław Jan Gębarowicz was a Polish art historian, soldier, dissident, museum director and custodian of cultural heritage. He studied history and the history of art at Lwów University During the 1940s and 1950s he was responsible for saving many Polish cultural works in Lviv, including books and manuscripts, from being destroyed or dispersed.
Adam Lizakowski is a Polish poet, translator, and photographer. His work has been published in over one hundred literary magazines in Poland and the United States.
Antoni Matuszkiewicz is a Polish poet, prose writer, playwright, journalist, and promoter of literary life. As a poet, he expresses himself in a modern and, at the same time, spiritual manner.
Tomasz Rowiński is a Polish historian of ideas, columnist, and editor.
Urszula Honek is a Polish poet and writer. Her debut short story collection, White Nights, was nominated for the 2024 International Booker Prize.
