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.
Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers, journalists and literary critics. He is best known for his travel literature and essays that describe the reality of Eastern Europe and its relationship with the West.
Wydawnictwo Literackie is a Kraków-based Polish publishing house, which has been referred to as one of Poland's "most respected".
MaMiKo is a Polish publisher located in Nowa Ruda, a medieval town. The town has a strong literary tradition, and hosts the “Góry Literatury” annually.
Wojciech Rybicki in Tomaszów Lubelski. He comes from Sanok. In 1959 he graduated from high school in Sanok and piano class at the State Primary Music School. During high school he performed as a pianist in a jazz band. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (1966). He also completed postgraduate studies at Warsaw University of Technology (1988). While studying at MCSU he continued his musical education in piano at the Music High School in Lublin.
Jakobe Mansztajn is a Polish poet and blogger.
Grażyna Wojcieszko is a Polish poet and author of multiple collections. Her collection Les abattoirs de Bruxelles qualified for the Silesius 2008, and the collection was translated into French by Alain van Crugten, and published in 2011; poems were also translated into Swedish by Jurek Hirschberg and published in SueciaPolonia.
Anna Ziaja is a Polish contemporary painter and print maker.
Chełmer Sztyme was a Yiddish language newspaper published from the Polish city of Chełm between 1924 and 1939. It was the leading Yiddish publication in the city at the time. It was founded as Unser Sztyme, but changed name to Chełmer Sztyme in 1927. Initially a weekly, it became a daily newspaper in 1936. It identified itself as a 'non-party' newspaper.
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.
Stanisław Kubicki was a Polish painter, printmaker, member of the Expressionist movement in the arts and literature.
Urszula Kozioł is a Polish poet and writer. She is a recipient of the Silesius Poetry Award (2011) and the Nike Award (2024).
Izabela Zubko is a Polish poet.
Eugeniusz Budzyński was a Polish balneologist, neurologist, internist and major in the Polish Army. He was killed in the Katyn massacre.
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.
Karol Maliszewski is a Polish poet, prose writer, literary critic and literary scholar. He is habilitated doctor – professor at the University of Wrocław.
Tomasz Leśniowski is a Polish poet and cultural animator.
Marie Iljašenko is a Czech poet, writer and translator. She is a laureate of the Tom Stoppard Prize (2023).
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.
