A writer whose first volume concentrated on philosophical and aesthetic spheres of life and the sociology of poverty. He has been accused of distorting history. Read more »about: Jerzy Andrzejewski
Cinematographer, writer and producer. As one of the most versatile Polish filmmakers, this interest was inspired by his artistic talents in painting, drawing, and later photography. Read more »about: Witold Adamek
Eminent essayist, journalist, translator and writer of fiction broke into print in 1949 with "Violets are Unlucky", a collection of stories. Read more »about: Jacek Bocheński
A writer and literary historian; her work the White Stone was a sensation among both readers and critics, and received several awards including the Reymont Prize. Read more »about: Anna Bolecka
The author or co-author of many books on aesthetics, philosophy, art, culture and anthropology. Her 1992 essay The Cracks in Existence was a literary event of the highest order. Read more »about: Jolanta Brach-Czaina
Film director, script writer and prose writer. His first full length film was surprisingly different and fresh compared to the slightly journalistic trend of the cinema of moral anxiety at the time. Read more »about: Filip Bajon
A writer; his writings are a scattering of political and historical facts and his own comments, anecdotes, digressions, intrinsic moods and experiences. Read more »about: Andrzej Bobkowski
A Poet, novelist, playwright, publicist, and dramatist; he took an active interest in literary discussion and history. Read more »about: Roman Brandstaetter
Poet, prose writer, publicist. He was born in 1922 in Żytomierz in CCCP, and died tragically in 1951 in Warsaw. He was a prisoner of Auschwitz and Dachau. Read more »about: Tadeusz Borowski
A Polish noble who wrote novels in English and was an experienced sailor. His literature dealt with ideas of moral and national responsibility and had themes of fidelity, betrayal, honour and shame. Read more »about: Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski)
Only in his sixties did he begin writing his life's story; "God's Horse", published in Krakow in 1996, became a literary sensation and was nominated for a Nike. Read more »about: Wilhelm Dichter
Animated film director and screenwriter, feature film set designer and writer, he has received many an award for his creations of animated magic. Read more »about: Piotr Dumała
Poet, writer and translator from English into Polish and Russian; he has also translated songs written to music by Astor Piazzola. Read more »about: Jacek Dehnel
She spent the years 1941-1942 in the ghetto and survived after escaping to the "Aryan side". She lived in Israel since 1957 where she wrote in Polish exclusively about the Holocaust. Read more »about: Ida Fink
A vocalist, instrumentalist, writer and culture animator. In 2016, she was nominated for 'Polityka' Passports for her debutant novel How to Fall in Love With Shopping Centres (Jak pokochać centra handlowe). Read more »about: Natalia Fiedorczuk-Cieślak
Film and theater director, writer, and graphic designer. His productions use few actors and are concentrated on the psychology of characters and the relations between them. Read more »about: Mariusz Grzegorzek
Writer, one of the precursors of fantasy fiction in Poland. Born on 26th February, 1887 in Kamianka Strumilova (present-day Kamianka Buzka) by the Bug River, died on 12th November, 1936 in Lviv. Read more »about: Stefan Grabiński
During the period of martial law he ran a private craft workshop. His work was first published in 1990 - a collection of short stories called "Inna Wojna" ("The other war"). Read more »about: Witold Horwath
A novelist and author of a volume of verse, he has found enormous success as a writer and been honored with many prestigious awards. Read more »about: Paweł Huelle
Writer and magazine editor with a talent for writing short stories that captivated his readers, the world for him was a space full of problems to describe and solve. Read more »about: Zygmunt Haupt
His brief life as a writer earned him praise for breaking the social-realist conventionalism and for his skill of objective and sober observation that tied into lyricism. Read more »about: Marek Hłasko
A romantic poet, novelist, playwright, and philosopher;in order to escape his father's domineering influence, he went abroad and lived the majority of his life as an expatriate. Read more »about: Zygmunt Krasiński
He was an outstanding Polish philosopher who lived in exile since 1968. Named a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford, his primary interest was the history of philosophy. Read more »about: Leszek Kołakowski
Prose writer, screenwriter and film director. His literary and cinematic legacy serves as both the conscience of Polish society and the skewed mirror in which it is reflected. Read more »about: Tadeusz Konwicki
A writer, poet, film critic, screenwriter and spelunker, winner of the 2003 Polityka Passport for Literature and of the 2004 Nike Literary Award. Read more »about: Wojciech Kuczok
A film director and writer; she has made relatively few films but of her creations, all of them representative of independent cinema. Non-commercial by definition, they grapple with difficult issues. Read more »about: Dorota Kędzierzawska
Jerzy (Nikodem) Kosiński (born under the surname of Lewinkopf, also used the pseudonym of Joseph Novak) was a writer, actor, a photographer and a screenwriter... Read more »about: Jerzy Kosiński
Marek Krajewski is a prose writer and author of celebrated novels. He is a classical philology graduate specializing in Latin. He was born on 4th of September 1966 in Wrocław. Read more »about: Marek Krajewski
