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Polish essayists

20 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Adam MickiewiczAuthor · BooksAdam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist.
Adam WażykAuthor · BooksAdam Ważyk born Ajzyk Wagman (17 November 1905 – 13 August 1982) was a Polish poet, essayist and writer born to a Jewish family in Warsaw.
Adam ZagajewskiAuthor · BooksAdam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist.
Adam ZamoyskiAuthor · BooksAdam Zamoyski (born 11 January 1949) is a Polish-British historian and author.[1]
Alfred DöblinAuthor · BooksBruno Alfred Döblin (German: [ˈalfʁeːt døːˈbliːn]; 10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
Alice MillerArtist · PaintingsAlice Miller was a French, Swiss and Polish psychologist, sociologist, painter, essayist, psychotherapist and writer (1923–2010). She was born in Lviv and died in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Czesław MiłoszAuthor · BooksCzesław Miłosz (USalso; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat.
David FrischmannAuthor · BooksDavid ben Saul Frischmann (Hebrew: דָּוִד בֵּן שָׁאוּל פְרִישְׁמַן, 31 December 1859 – 4 August 1922) was a Hebrew and Yiddish modernist writer, poet and translator.
Eliza OrzeszkowaAuthor · BooksEliza Orzeszkowa (6 June 184118 May 1910) was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland.
Jerzy KosińskiAuthor · BooksJerzy Kosiński (born Józef Nikodem Lewinkopf; June 14, 1933May 3, 1991) was a Polish-born American writer and two-time president of the American chapter of PEN, who wrote primarily in…
Józef CzapskiArtist · PaintingsJózef Czapski (3 April 1896 – 12 January 1993) was a Polish artist, author, and critic, as well as an Major of the Polish Army reserves.
Julia HartwigAuthor · BooksJulia Hartwig-Międzyrzecka (14 August 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a Polish writer, poet and translator, considered to be one of Poland's most important poets.
Kazimierz WierzyńskiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Kazimierz Wierzyński, 1928
Mieczysław JastrunAuthor · BooksIllustration — The grave of Mieczysław Jastrun at Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw.
Stanisław LemAuthor · BooksStanisław Herman Lem (12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy,…
Stanisław PrzybyszewskiAuthor · BooksStanisław Przybyszewski (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf pʂɨbɨˈʂɛfskʲi]; 7 May 1868 – 23 November 1927) was a Polish novelist, dramatist, and poet of the decadent naturalistic school.
Wisława SzymborskaAuthor · BooksMaria Wisława Anna Szymborska (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Zbigniew HerbertAuthor · BooksZbigniew Herbert (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈxɛrbɛrt]; 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist.

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