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Born 1609 • Poland
Died December 7, 1655 (aged 46) • Poland
Notable Works “Satyry albo przestrogi do naprawy rządu i obyczajów w Polszcze należące”
Ignacy Krasicki, detail of an oil painting by Per Krafft, 1767; in the National Museum of Warsaw.
Ignacy Krasicki
Polish poet
Franciszek Bohomolec
Polish dramatist and linguist
Stanisław Lem
Polish author
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz
Polish poet
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish author
Maria Dąbrowska
Polish author and critic
Adam Zagajewski
Polish writer
Kazimierz Pochwalski: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish writer
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Polish author
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish writer
Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Słowacki, Juliusz
Juliusz Słowacki
Polish author
Stefan Żeromski, pastel by Leon Wyczótłkowski, 1904; in the National Museum, Kraków, Poland.
Stefan Żeromski
Polish author
Witold Gombrowicz
Polish author
Peretz, I.L.
I.L. Peretz
Polish-Jewish writer
Kazimierz Brandys
Polish author
Asnyk, Adam
Adam Asnyk
Polish author
Herbert, Zbigniew
Zbigniew Herbert
Polish author
Kraszewski, detail of an oil painting by X.J. Kaniewski; in the National Museum, Warsaw
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Polish writer
Władysław Broniewski
Polish author