Adam Bahdaj
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
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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
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Wakacje z duchami, 1962
- Holidays with Ghosts , translated by Barbara Samborska , 1983
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Uwaga! Czarny parasol, 1963
- The case: "Black umbrella", translated by Oskar Jan Tauschinski , 1974
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Podróż za everyone uśmiech, 1964
- Journey for a Smile, translated by Henryk Bereska , 1974
- Wąsik, 1964
- O piracie Rum - Barbari io czymś jescze, 1965
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Pilot yes, 1967
- The pilot and I, translated by Hella Rymarowicz , 1971
- Stawiam na Tolka Banana, 1967
- Mały pingwin Pik-Pok, 1969
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Czarne sombrero, 1970
- The black sombrero, translated by Kurt Kelm , 1975
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Podróż w nieznane, 1972
- The Journey into the Unknown, translated by Halina Więcławska , 1975
- Pan Piramido z trzynastego piętra, 1973
Translations
- Zbiór węgierskich pieśni ludowych, Volume 1, 1941
- Seklerskie ballady ludowe, 1943
- Lajos Áprily : Wybór poezji , together with Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna and Stanisław Vincenz , 1943
- Lőrinc Kovai : Ziemia… chleb… wolność, 1950
- Ewa Mandi: Bohaterowie dnia powszedniego, 1950
- István Asztalos : Nie ma dymu bez ognia, 1951
Awards
- 1975: Golden Cross of Merit
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 .
Web links
- Janusz R. Kowalczyk: Adam Bahdaj. In: culture.pl . Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
- Literature by and about Adam Bahdaj in the bibliographic database WorldCat
personal data | |
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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 |