Flashcards: Polish dramatists and playwrights

Józef Szujski (Tarnow, June 16, 1835 – Cracow, February 7, 1883) was a Polish politician, historian, poet and professor of the Jagiellonian University.

Stanisław Brzozowski (28 June 1878 – 30 April 1911) was a Polish philosopher, writer, publicist, literary and theatre critic.

Franciszek Zabłocki (January 2, 1754, Volhynia – September 10, 1821, Końskowola), is considered the most distinguished Polish comic dramatist and satirist of the Enlightenment period.

Miron Białoszewski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmirɔn bjawɔˈʂɛfskʲi]; June 30, 1922 – June 17, 1983), born in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright and actor.

Tadeusz Miciński (9 November 1873 in Łódź – February 1918 in Cherykaw Raion, Belarus) was an influential Polish poet, gnostic and playwright, and was a forerunner of Expressionism and Surrealism.

Tymon Zaborowski (1799–1828) was a Polish poet.

Izabela Filipiak (born 1961 in Gdynia) is a Polish writer, an essayist, a columnist, and a scholar.

Jerzy Żuławski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ʐuˈwafski]; 14 July 1874 – 9 August 1915) was a Polish literary figure, philosopher, translator, alpinist and nationalist whose best-known work is the science-fiction epic, Trylogia Księżycowa (The Lunar Trilogy), written between 1901 and 1911.

Karol Irzykowski (Błaszkowa, near Pilzno, 23 January 1873 – 2 November 1944, Żyrardów) was a Polish writer, literary critic, film theoretician, and chess player.

Arnold Szyfman (23 November 1882 in Ulanów - 11 January 1967 in Warsaw) was a Polish theatre director and stage director.

Adam Stanisław Naruszewicz (20 October 1733 – 8 July 1796) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman from an impoverished aristocratic family, poet, historian, dramatist, translator, publicist, Jesuit and titular Bishop of Smolensk (1775–1788 as suffragan bishop and 1788–1790 as full diocesan bishop) and bishop of Łuck (1790–1796).

Roman Brandstaetter (January 3, 1906 – September 28, 1987) was an award-winning Polish-Jewish writer, poet, playwright, journalist and translator.

Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice (4 February 1505 – between 8 September/5 October 1569) was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages, as well as a politician and musician.

Ignacy Tański (1761 – 15 August 1805) was a Polish poet and playwright.

Aaron Zeitlin (1898 in Uvarovichi – 1973 in New York), the son of the famous Jewish writer Hillel Zeitlin and Esther Kunin, authored several books on Yiddish literature, poetry and parapsychology.

Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (Jarosław Marek Szulc; born 13 July 1935, in Warsaw) is a Polish poet, essayist, dramatist and literary critic.

Kazimierz Zalewski (December 5, 1849 – January 11, 1919), pseudonym Jerzy Myriel, was a Polish dramatist, literary and theatre critic, one of the leading author of middle-class positivistic drama.

Stanisław Grochowiak (24 January 1934 – 2 September 1976) was a Polish poet and dramatist.

Marian Hemar (1901–1972), born Marian Hescheles, also Jan Mariański, Marian Wallenrod, was a Polish poet, journalist, playwright, comedy writer, and songwriter: he himself said that before the outbreak of World War II he had written 1200 songs including hits like Może kiedyś innym razem (Maybe Some Other Time) and Upić się warto (Let's get drunk).

Wojciech Bogusławski (9 April 1757 – 23 July 1829) was a Polish actor, theater director and playwright of the Polish Enlightenment.

Jan August Kisielewski (Rzeszów, 1876 – 1918, Warsaw), was a Polish writer, essayist and playwright associated with the Young Poland literary movement at the turn of the century.

Agnieszka Lipska Baranowska (1819–1890) was a Polish playwright and poet.

Bohdan Urbankowski (born 19 May 1943 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer, poet and philosopher.

Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975) was a Polish poet, playwright and novelist, born in Taganrog, Russia and died in Toronto, Canada.

Piotr Baryka (1600–1675), was a seventeenth-century Polish soldier and writer, most probably of burgher origin, of whom very little is known.

Grzegorz Knapski (Knapiusz, Cnapius; 1561–1639) was a Polish Jesuit, teacher, philologist, lexicographer and writer.

Karol Hubert Rostworowski (3 November 1877 – 4 February 1938) was a Polish playwright, poet and musician, born to a family of local gentry.

Władysław Dutkiewicz (Stara Sol, Poland, 21 February 1918 – Adelaide 2 October 1999) was a Polish-born naturalized Australian artist and Polish language playwright, winning multiple awards as a painter.

Casimir Dunin Markievicz (Polish: Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz [kaˈʑimʲɛʂ ˈdunin markˈjɛvit͡ʂ], 15 March 1874 – 2 December 1932), known as Count Markievicz, was a Polish portrait, category and landscape artist, playwright and theatre director, and husband of the Irish revolutionary Constance Markievicz.

Alfons Mieczysław Chrostowski (c. 1860–after 1920), also Mieczysław Alfons Chrostowski, was a Polish author, playwright, and editor of Polish language newspapers in the United States.

Jerzy Zawieyski, born Henryk Nowicki, (2 October 1902, Radogoszcz, Piotrków Governorate – 18 June 1969, Warsaw) was a Polish playwright, prose writer, Catholic political activist and amateur stage actor.

Wojciech Wincenty Wielądko (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛx vinˈt͡sɛntɨ vʲɛˈlɔntkɔ]; 1734/39–1822) was a Polish historian, poet, playwright, translator, lexicographer and food writer.

Jerzy Janicki (August 10, 1928 in Chortkiv – April 15, 2007 in Warsaw) was a Polish writer, journalist and scriptwriter.

Stanisława Przybyszewska (Polish pronunciation: [staɲiˈswava pʂɨbɨˈʂɛfska]; 1 October 1901 – 15 August 1935) was a Polish dramatist who wrote almost exclusively about the French Revolution.