Polish literature - Definition

Poland — Polish literature

Writers and novelists

Main article: List of Polish language authors

Writers in chronological order of birth:

• Jan Potocki (1761–1815)
• Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887)
• Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910)
• Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916)
• Bolesław Prus (1847–1912)
• Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925)
• Władysław Reymont (1867–1925)
• Zofia Nałkowska (1885–1954)
• Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965)
• Bruno Schulz (1892–1942)
• Józef Mackiewicz (1902–1985)
• Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969)
• Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975)
• Stanisław Lem (* 1921)
• Tadeusz Konwicki (* 1926)
• Janusz A. Zajdel (1938–1985)
• Andrzej Sapkowski (* 1948)
• Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz (* 1964)
• Dorota Masłowska (* 1983)

Poets

Main article: List of Polish language poets

• Mikołaj Rej of Nagłowice (1505–1569)
• Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584)
• Klemens Janicki (Janicius) (1516–1543)
• Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855)
• Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849)
• Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859)
• Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821–1883)
• Bolesław Leśmian (approx. 1877–1937)
• Jan Brzechwa (1900–1966)
• Tadeusz Różewicz (b. 1921)
• Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983)
• Julian Tuwim (1894–1953)
• Władysław Broniewski (1897–1962)
• Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953)
• Czesław Miłosz (June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004), Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980
• Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975)
• Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923), Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
• Andrzej Bursa (1932–1957)
• Halina Poświatowska (1935–1967)
• Ewa Lipska (b. 1945)
• Rafał Wojaczek (1945–1971)
• Cezary Geroń (1960–1998)
• Marcin Świetlicki (b. 1961)

Essayists

• Paweł Huelle (b. 1957)
• Ryszard Kapuściński (b. 1932)
• Jerzy Pilch (b. 1952)
• Ludwik Stomma

See also

• List of famous Poles
• Young Poland