Kornel Makuszyński (ˈkɔrnɛl makuˈʂɨɲskʲi; Stryj

Stryj

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, now in Lviv Oblast

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, Ukraine

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, 8 January 1884 — 31 July 1953, Zakopane

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) was a Polish

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 writer of children's

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 and youth literature

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.

Life

Makuszyński attended the Jan Długosz gymnasium in Lviv

Lviv

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 (Polish: Lwów). While in school he wrote occasional poetry

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 (he started writing at the age of 14), and had his first poem published in 1902 in the newspaper Słowo Polskie (Polish Word), for which he soon became a theatrical critic. He studied language and literature at both the University of Lviv (then Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, Poland) and in Paris

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. He was evacuated to Kiev

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 in 1915, where he ran the Polish Theatre and was the chairman of the Polish writers and journalist community.

He moved to Warsaw

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 in 1918, and became a writer.

He was buried at the Peksowe Brzysko cemetery in Zakopane, where he lived from 1945. There is a museum dedicated to him there.

His children's books, particularly the series about the goat, Koziołek Matołek, have an enduring popularity in Poland, whatever the sharp changes in the country's fortunes and its political system. They have been translated to many other languages. Among others, they are very popular in Israel

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, where Polish Jewish immigrants since the 1920s and 1930s took care to have many of them translated to Hebrew and introduced them to their own children.

Works

• Arabian Affairs (1913; Awantury Arabskie)
• Innocent Years (1925; Bezgrzeszne lata)
• The Two Who Stole the Moon
  The Two Who Stole The Moon
  The Two Who Stole the Moon is a 1962 Polish children's film based on Kornel Makuszyński's 1928 story "The Two Who Stole the Moon". The film stars the Kaczyński twins, two of the country's future political leaders....
  
   (1928; O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc; filmed in 1962 starring Lech Kaczyński
  Lech Kaczynski
  Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was Polish lawyer and politician who served as the President of Poland from 2005 until 2010 and as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005. Before he became a president, he was also a member of the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość...
  
  , former President of Poland, and his identical twin brother Jarosław, former Prime Minister of Poland)
• 120 adventures of Matołek the Billy-Goat (1933; 120 Przygód Koziołka Matołka)
• The Smile of Lwów, (1934; Usmiech Lwowa)
• Argument about Basia
  Argument about Basia
  Argument About Basia is a Polish novel by Kornel Makuszyński. It was filmed twice - in 1959 and 1995 .The book tells the story of a little girl, Basia, sent by train alone after her mother's death...
  
   (1936; Awantura o Basię; filmed 1959)
• Satan from the 7th grade
  Satan from the 7th grade
  Satan from the 7th grade is an 1937 children's book by Polish writer Kornel Makuszyński....
  
   (1937; Szatan z siódmej klasy)
• Merry Devil's Friend (1937; Przyjaciel wesołego diabła; filmed 1987)
• About the Wawel Dragon (1937; O wawelskim smoku; filmed 1987)
• Eva's folly (1940; Szaleństwa panny Ewy; filmed 1985)