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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”
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Adam Zagajewski
Polish writer
Ignacy Krasicki, detail of an oil painting by Per Krafft, 1767; in the National Museum of Warsaw.
Ignacy Krasicki
Polish poet
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Franciszek Bohomolec
Polish dramatist and linguist
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Stanisław Lem
Polish author
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz
Polish poet
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish author
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
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Maria Dąbrowska
Polish author and critic
Kazimierz Pochwalski: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish writer
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Jerzy Andrzejewski
Polish author
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish writer
Słowacki, Juliusz
Juliusz Słowacki
Polish author
Stefan Żeromski, pastel by Leon Wyczótłkowski, 1904; in the National Museum, Kraków, Poland.
Stefan Żeromski
Polish author
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Witold Gombrowicz
Polish author
Peretz, I.L.
I.L. Peretz
Polish-Jewish writer
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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
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Władysław Broniewski
Polish author