List of Polish language poets
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Poets who have written much of their poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
in the Polish language
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
. See also Discussion Page for additional poets not listed here.
There have been four Polish Nobel Prize laureates in literature
Nobel Prize in Literature
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. A Polish szlachcic of the Oszyk coat of arms, he was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his...
, Władysław Reymont, Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska. The last two have been poets.
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- Adam AsnykAdam AsnykAdam Asnyk , was a Polish poet and dramatist. Born September 11, 1838 in Kalisz to a szlachta family, he was educated for an heir of his family's estate. As such he received education at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Marymont and then the Medical Surgeon School in Warsaw. He...
- Krzysztof Kamil BaczyńskiKrzysztof Kamil BaczynskiKrzysztof Kamil Baczyński, was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most renowned authors of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets of whom many perished in the Warsaw Uprising.-Biography:...
- Marcin BaranMarcin BaranMarcin Baran is a Polish poet and journalist. He has a degree in Polonistics from the Jagiellonian University. He is one of the Polish poets who published their verses in the magazine bruLion ....
- Stanisław Barańczak
- Miron Białoszewski
- Biernat of LublinBiernat of LublinBiernat of Lublin was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones...
(1465?– after 1529). - Tadeusz BorowskiTadeusz BorowskiTadeusz Borowski was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish literature and had much influence in Central European society.- Early life :...
- Tadeusz Boy-ŻeleńskiTadeusz Boy-ZelenskiTadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic above all, and translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish...
- Władysław Broniewski
- Jan BrzechwaJan BrzechwaJan Brzechwa , , born Jan Wiktor Lesman in Żmerynka, Podolia to a Polish family of Jewish descent was a Polish poet and author, mostly known for his contribution to children's literature....
(1898–1966) - Andrzej BursaAndrzej BursaAndrzej Bursa was a Polish poet and writer. Born in Kraków, he studied journalism, then Bulgarian at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1954–1957 Bursa worked as a journalist and reporter for the Kraków newspaper Dziennik Polski...
- Jacek DehnelJacek DehnelJacek Dehnel in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish poet, writer, translator and painter. Dehnel studied at Warsaw University in the MISH College and graduated from the Polish Language and Literature department...
(b. 1980) - Elżbieta DrużbackaElzbieta DruzbackaElżbieta Drużbacka was a Polish poet.Much of her work deals with the beauty of nature; her best known work isDescription of the Four Seasons ....
(d. 1765) - Leszek EngelkingLeszek EngelkingLeszek Engelking - Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator....
(b. 1955)
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- Aleksander FredroAleksander FredroAleksander Fredro was a Polish poet, playwright and author.-Life:Count Aleksander Fredro, of the Bończa coat of arms, was born in the village of Surochów near Jarosław, then a crown territory of Austria. A landowner's son, he was educated at home. He entered the Polish army at age 16 and saw...
(1793–1876) - Tadeusz GajcyTadeusz GajcyTadeusz Stefan Gajcy was a Polish poet and Armia Krajowa soldier.He co-founded and edited the bibuła literary magazine, Sztuka i Naród...
(1922–1944) - Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński
- Stefan Garczyński
- Cezary GerońCezary GeronCezary Geroń was a Polish poet, journalist, translator and teacher. Born July 28, 1960 in Jasło, he graduated from a local college in nearby Krosno. Afterwards he moved to Kraków, where he joined the Faculty of French Studies. He then moved to the Warsaw University, from which he graduated. He...
- Cyprian GodebskiCyprian GodebskiCyprian Godebski was a Polish poet, novelist, father of Franciszek Ksawery. An outstanding poet of the so-called "Legions Poetry".-Life:...
- Stanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976)
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- Zbigniew HerbertZbigniew HerbertZbigniew Herbert was an influential Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement – Home Army during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers...
- Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894–1980)
- Bruno JasieńskiBruno JasienskiBruno Jasieński was a Polish poet and the leader of the Polish futurist movement.Bruno Jasieński was born Wiktor Zysman on 17 July 1901 in Klimontów in southern Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a Polish family of Jewish and German roots, but from his mother's side he was a descendant of the...
(1901–1938) - Mieczysław Jastrun
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- Andrzej Tadeusz KijowskiAndrzej Tadeusz KijowskiAndrzej Tadeusz Kijowski is a Polish aesthetician, theatre critic, literary critic, poet and publicist.Son of the writer Andrzej Kijowski. From 1976 to 1989 participated in the democratic opposition...
- Franciszek Dionizy KniaźninFranciszek Dionizy KniazninFranciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin is considered to be one of the most distinguished Polish poets of the Polish sentimentalism in the Enlightenment period....
- Jan KochanowskiJan KochanowskiJan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language.He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, and the greatest Slavic poet, prior to the 19th century.-Life:Kochanowski was born at...
- Maria KonopnickaMaria KonopnickaMaria Konopnicka nee Wasiłowska , was a Polish poet, novelist, writer for children and youth, a translator, journalist and critic, as well as an activist for women's rights and Polish independence.Maria Konopnicka also composed a poem about the execution of the Irish patriot, Robert...
- Apollo KorzeniowskiApollo KorzeniowskiApollo Korzeniowski was a Polish poet, playwright, clandestine political activist, and father of Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad.-Life:...
- Ignacy KrasickiIgnacy KrasickiIgnacy Krasicki , from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno , was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet , a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and...
(1735–1801). - Józef KrupińskiJózef KrupinskiJózef Krupiński was a Polish poet. He spent the last days of his life in Orzesze, Poland. Prizewinner of the Edward Stachura Award and member of the Association of Polish Writers in Katowice....
(September 24, 1930– September 1, 1998) - Mira KuśMira KusMira Kuś, , is a contemporary Polish poet. She lives in Kraków and is a journalist and member of the Polish Writers Association.-Works:...
- Jan LechońJan LechonLeszek Józef Serafinowicz was a Polish poet, literary and theater critic, diplomat, and co-founder of the Skamander literary movement and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.-Life:Lechoń studied Polish language and literature at Warsaw University, by...
- Bolesław Leśmian
- Ewa LipskaEwa LipskaEwa Lipska, born October 8, 1945, in Kraków is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian...
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- Antoni MalczewskiAntoni MalczewskiAntoni Malczewski was an influential Polish romantic poet, known for his only work, "a narrative poem of dire pessimism", Maria ....
- Jakobe MansztajnJakobe MansztajnJakobe Mansztajn is an award-winning young Polish poet and blogger. Deputy editor of the literary quarterly Korespondencja z ojcem...
(b. 1982) - Adam MickiewiczAdam MickiewiczAdam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...
- Czesław Miłosz (June 30, 1911– August 14, 2004)
- Grazyna MillerGrazyna MillerGrażyna Miller was a poet, born in Poland.She lived in Italy, where she wrote poems and translates publications from Polish into Italian. She was also a literary critic whose work was published by the most prestigious Italian press media...
- Stanislaw Mlodozeniec
- Adam NaruszewiczAdam NaruszewiczAdam Stanisław Naruszewicz was a Polish nobleman from an impoverished aristocratic family, poet, historian, dramatist, translator, publicist, Jesuit and titular Bishop of Smolensk and bishop of Łuck .His family had a small estate in Polesie and he was educated at Pinsk.As a senator he...
- Cyprian Kamil Norwid
- Franciszek NowickiFranciszek NowickiFranciszek Henryk Siła-Nowicki was a Young Poland poet, a mountaineer, socialist activist, and designer of the Orla Perć High Tatras mountain trail.-Life:...
- Agnieszka OsieckaAgnieszka OsieckaAgnieszka Osiecka She was a poet, writer, author of theatre and television screenplays, film director and journalist...
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- Leon PasternakLeon PasternakLeon Pasternak was a Polish poet and satirist...
- Maria Pawlikowska-JasnorzewskaMaria Pawlikowska-JasnorzewskaMaria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, née Kossak , was a Polish poet known as the Polish Sappho and "queen of lyrical poetry" of Poland's interwar period...
(1891–1945) - Jacek Podsiadło
- Wincenty PolWincenty PolWincenty Pol was a Polish poet and geographer.-Life:Pol was born in Lublin , to Franz Pohl , a German in the Austrian service, and his wife Eleonora Longchamps de Berier, from a French family living in Poland. Pol fought in the Polish army in the November 1830 Uprising and participated in the 1848...
(1807–1872) - Halina PoświatowskaHalina PoswiatowskaHalina Poświatowska - Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature....
(1935–1967) - Kazimierz Przerwa-TetmajerKazimierz Przerwa-TetmajerKazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer. He was a member of the Young Poland movement.-Life:...
a.k.a. Kazimierz Tetmajer (1865–1940) - Mikołaj Rej (1505–1569)
- Władysław Reymont (1867–1925)
- Tadeusz RóżewiczTadeusz RózewiczTadeusz Różewicz is a Polish poet and writer.Różewicz belongs to the first generation born and educated after Poland regained its independence in 1918. His youthful poems were published in 1938...
- Tomasz RóżyckiTomasz RóżyckiTomasz Różycki is a Polish poet and translator. He studied Romance Languages at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and taught French at the Foreign Languages Teaching College in Opole...
(b. 1970) - Lucjan RydelLucjan RydelLucjan Rydel a.k.a. Lucjan Antoni Feliks Rydel , was a Polish playwright and poet from the Young Poland movement.-Life:...
(1870–1918)
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- Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński (1550–1581)
- Jan Stanisław Skorupski (b. 1938)
- Antoni Słonimski (1895–1976)
- Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849)
- Edward StachuraEdward StachuraEdward Stachura was a Polish poet and writer. He rose to prominence in the 1960s, receiving prizes for both poetry and prose. His literary output includes four volumes of poetry, three collections of short stories, two novels, a book of essays, and the final work, Fabula rasa, which is difficult...
(1937–1979) - Leopold StaffLeopold StaffLeopold Staff was a Polish poet and one of the greatest artists of European modernism honored two times by honorary degrees . He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature...
(1878–1957) - Andrzej StasiukAndrzej StasiukAndrzej Stasiuk is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers, journalists and literary critics...
(b. 1960) - Anatol SternAnatol SternAnatol Stern was a Polish poet, writer and art critic. Born October 24, 1899 to an assimilated family of Jewish ancestry, Stern studied at the Polish Studies Faculty of the University of Wilno but did not graduate...
(1899–1968) - Marcin ŚwietlickiMarcin SwietlickiMarcin Świetlicki is a Polish poet, writer, and musician. He lives and works in Cracow, Poland.Świetlicki was born in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland. He studied Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, where he has been living since 1980. He worked as an editor at the Tygodnik...
(b. 1961) - Anna ŚwirszczyńskaAnna SwirszczynskaAnna Świrszczyńska was a Polish poet whose works deal with themes, including her experiences during World War II, motherhood, the female body, and sensuality.-Background:...
- Władysław Syrokomla (1823–1862)
- Janusz SzpotańskiJanusz SzpotańskiJanusz Szpotański, was a Polish poet, satirist, critic, translator, literary theorist and chess player .He was the creator of satirical tragi-comedic poems which ridiculed the communist...
(1929–2001) - Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923)
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- Kazimierz Przerwa-TetmajerKazimierz Przerwa-TetmajerKazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer. He was a member of the Young Poland movement.-Life:...
, a.k.a. Kazimierz Tetmajer (1865–1940) - Julian TuwimJulian TuwimJulian Tuwim , sometimes used pseudonym "Oldlen" when writing song lyrics. He was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, of Jewish parents, and educated in Łódź and Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University...
(1894–1953) - Jan TwardowskiJan TwardowskiJan Jakub Twardowski was a famous Polish poet, but, as he said of himself, he was a priest first of all. He was a chief Polish representative of contemporary religious lyrics. He wrote short, simple poems, humorous, sometimes with colloquialisms...
(1915–2006) - Kornel UjejskiKornel UjejskiKornel Ujejski , also known as Cornelius Ujejski, was a Polish poet, patriot and political writer.He was named "last of the greatest Polish poets of Romanticism"....
(1823–1897)
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- Adam WażykAdam WazykAdam Ważyk born Ajzyk Wagman was a Polish poet, essayist and writer born to a Jewish family in Warsaw. In his early career, he was associated with the Kraków avant-garde led by Tadeusz Peiper who published Zwrotnica monthly. Ważyk wrote several collections of poetry in the interwar years...
- Kazimierz WierzyńskiKazimierz WierzynskiKazimierz Wierzyński was a Polish poet and journalist.-Life:Kazimierz Wierzyński was born in Drohobycz, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and died in London....
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz a.k.a. “Witkacy” (1885–1939)
- Rafał Wojaczek (1945–1971)
- Józef WybickiJózef WybickiJózef Rufin Wybicki was a Polish general, poet and political figure.-Life:He was a close friend of General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, and in 1797 he wrote Mazurek Dąbrowskiego , which in 1927 was adopted as the Polish national anthem.During the Kościuszko Uprising, he was counselor of the Military...
- Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907)
- Adam ZagajewskiAdam ZagajewskiAdam Zagajewski is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist.In 1982 he emigrated to Paris, but in 2002 he returned to Poland, and resides in Kraków. His poem "Try To Praise The Mutilated World", printed in The New Yorker, became famous after the 11 September attacks...
- Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz-Cyganiak
- Eugeniusz ŻytomirskiEugeniusz ZytomirskiEugeniusz Żytomirski was a Polish poet, playwright and novelist, born in Taganrog, Russia and died in Toronto, Canada. He was a member of the literary group Kadra.-References:...
(1911–1975)
See also
- List of Polish-language authors
- List of Poles