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Born September 12, 1921
Died March 27, 2006 (aged 84) • Kraków • Poland
Notable Works “Astronauci” • “His Master’s Voice” • “Solaris” • “Summa technologiae” • “The Cyberiad” • “The Futurological Congress”
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
Stefan Żeromski, pastel by Leon Wyczótłkowski, 1904; in the National Museum, Kraków, Poland.
Stefan Żeromski
Polish author
Witold Gombrowicz
Polish author
Kazimierz Brandys
Polish author
Kraszewski, detail of an oil painting by X.J. Kaniewski; in the National Museum, Warsaw
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Polish writer
Maria Kuncewiczowa
Polish author
Ignacy Krasicki, detail of an oil painting by Per Krafft, 1767; in the National Museum of Warsaw.
Ignacy Krasicki
Polish poet
Adolf Rudnicki
Polish author
Tadeusz Konwicki
Polish writer, screenwriter, and film director
Adam Ważyk
Polish author
Stanisław Brzozowski
Polish author
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Polish poet
Eliza Orzeszkowa, woodcut by J. Holewinski
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Polish writer
Józef Wittlin
Polish author