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 was 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.
Stanisława Przybyszewska was a Polish dramatist who is mostly known for her plays about the French Revolution. Her 1929 play The Danton Case, which examines the conflict between Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton, is considered to be one of the most exemplary works about the Revolution, and was adapted by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda for his 1983 film Danton.
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.
Zuzanna Ginczanka, pen nameZuzanna 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.
Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski is a Polish aesthetician, theatre critic, literary critic, poet and publicist. Son of the writer Andrzej Kijowski. From 1976 to 1989 participated in the democratic opposition. Cooperated with KOR and NOWa. From 1990 to 1994 helped to create the new self-government.
Adam Redzik is a Polish lawyer and historian, a professor at the Warsaw University. He specializes in the history of law and science.
The House of Tęczyński was a powerful family of nobility (szlachta) in the Kingdom of Poland, during the times of the late Piast dynasty, the Jagiellon dynasty and in the early decades of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. They were an important family from Lesser Poland (Małopolska), active in Polish politics of their time.
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.
Jan Strządała is a Polish poet.
Bronisław Maj is a Polish poet, essayist, translator and academic.
Józef Baran is a Polish poet, living in Kraków.
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. In 2011, she was a recipient of the Silesius Poetry Award.
Izabela Zubko is a Polish poet.
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.
Marian Turwid-Kaczmarek, also known as Marian Turwid (1905-1987) was a Polish writer, painter and cultural activist in Bydgoszcz, and member of the National Committee of the National Unity Front in 1958.
