Adam Bahdaj

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Adam Bahdaj (born January 2, 1918 in Zakopane , † May 7, 1985 in Warsaw ) was a Polish writer , children's book author , poet and translator from Hungarian into Polish . Several of his children's books have been adapted for television or radio.

Life

Bahdaj attended school in Zakopane and graduated from high school there in 1937 . He then studied law for a year at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and then at the Szkoła Główna Handlowa in Warsaw . After the outbreak of World War II , he came to Hungary via Zakopane , where he settled in Budapest . In the Budapest magazine Wieści Polskie he made his debut in 1941 as a poet and in 1943 as a prose writer. During the war years he published poems, stories and articles and was committed to the cultural life of the Polish refugees. He was a co-founder and employee of the Biblioteka Polska publishing house . After the Gestapo arrested him in 1944 , he was initially imprisoned for three months in Budapest and was to be deported to Germany. Bahdaj, however, he was able to escape and hid in Hungary.

After the Second World War he returned to Poland in 1945 and lived first in Krakow. There he worked as a journalist for the newspaper Dziennik Polski . After moving to Warsaw in 1946, he worked for the Socialist Press Agency ( Socjalistyczna Agencja Prasowa ) and later for the Labor Agency ( Agencja Robotnicza ). In 1946 he was admitted to the Union of Polish Writers .

From 1950 he devoted himself entirely to writing and collaborated with Gazeta Bydgoska from 1957 to 1965 .

Works

Poetry

  • Iskry spod młota , 1942

Novels and short stories

  • I pierwszy start, 1951
  • Skalista ubocz, 1952
  • Trzeci turnus, 1952
  • Na śnieżnej trasie, 1953
  • Narciarski ślad, 1954
  • Od startu do mety, 1954
  • Droga przez góry, 1956
  • History nie z tego śniegu , 1958
  • Nieznajomy z baru Calypso, 1959
  • Order z księżyca, 1959
  • Ruda modelka, 1959
  • Drugie dno, 1963
  • Portret z paragrafem, 1964
  • Smak życia, 1965
  • Kapelusz za 100 tysięcy, 1966
  • Piraci z Wysp Śpiewających, 1966
  • W stronę Kansas City, 1969
  • Maski i twarze, 1970
  • Trzecia granica, 4 volumes, 1973–1974
  • Telemach w dżinsach, 1979
    • Telemachos in Jeans, translated by Ursula Krause, 1986
  • Gdzie twój dom, Telemachu ?, 1982
  • Dan Drewer i Indianie, 1984
  • Tańczący słoń, 1987
  • Księżycowy concert; Wielki wyścig, 2000
  • Najpiękniejsza fotografia, 2003

Books for children and young readers

  • Mały ratownik, 1953
  • Przygoda Wojtka, 1953
  • Do przerwy 0: 1, 1957
  • Festyn w Bławatkowie, 1958
  • O siódmej w Budapeszcie, 1958
  • Przygody srebrnej piłki, 1958
  • Wakacje z duchami, 1962
  • Uwaga! Czarny parasol, 1963
  • Podróż za everyone uśmiech, 1964
  • Wąsik, 1964
  • O piracie Rum - Barbari io czymś jescze, 1965
  • Pilot yes, 1967
  • Stawiam na Tolka Banana, 1967
  • Mały pingwin Pik-Pok, 1969
  • Czarne sombrero, 1970
    • The black sombrero, translated by Kurt Kelm , 1975
  • Podróż w nieznane, 1972
  • Pan Piramido z trzynastego piętra, 1973

Translations

Awards

literature

  • Joanna Zawadzka: Bahdaj Adam . In: Współcześni polscy pisarze i badacze literatury . Tom pierwszy: A – B. Wydawnictwo Szkolne i Pedagogiczne Spółka Akcyjna, Warsaw 1994, ISBN 83-02-05445-3 , p. 75-78 .
  • Joanna Zawadzka: Bahdaj Adam . In: Współcześni polscy pisarze i badacze literatury . Tom dziesiąty: Ż i uzupełnienia do tomów 1–9. Fundacja Akademia Humanistyczna, Warsaw 2007, ISBN 978-83-8934894-4 , p. 115-116 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bahdaj, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Zakopane
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1985
Place of death Warsaw