Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna

Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna (born August 6, 1892 in Vilnius , Russian Empire , † February 16, 1983 in Poznan ) was a Polish poet and translator .

Life

Iłłakowiczówna was born in Vilnius as the illegitimate daughter of the lawyer Klemens Zan (1852–1889) and thus the granddaughter of the Polish poet Tomasz Zan (1796–1855). After the early death of her parents, she grew up as the foster daughter of Zofia Buyno, b. Countess Plater-Syberg (1847–1909) under guardianship. She attended schools in Vitebsk, Warsaw, Geneva and Oxford and passed the Matura in Saint Petersburg in 1910. She then studied Polish and English philology at the Jagiellonian University in the Austro-Hungarian Cracow until 1914 . During the First World War she worked as a medic on Austria's side on the Eastern Front.

When Poland gained independence in 1918, Iłłakowiczówna went to Warsaw and worked there in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1926 she became the personal secretary of the Polish head of state Marshal Józef Piłsudski . During the Second World War she lived in hiding in Romania and then in Hungarian Transylvania. In 1947 she returned to Poland, where she was not allowed to publish in communist Poland for seven years. Until her death, she lived in a small apartment in Poznan, which is now used as a museum, until her death.

Iłłakowiczówna published his first poems at the age of fifteen in the magazine Tygodnika Ilustrowana . A long series of volumes of poetry followed. In 1935 Illakowiczówna was awarded the State Prize for Literature. She also emerged as a translator. She translated u. a. Schiller's Don Karlos (1932), Goethe's Egmont , Tolstoy's Anna Karenina , but also contemporary works such as Böll's Das Bread of the Early Years , Dürrenmatt's The Promise and Doderer's A Murder That Everyone Commits .

Works

Jablonie , poem, 1907
Ikarowe loty , poem, 1912
Trzy struny , 1917
Koledy polskiej biedy. W Wigilie powrotu , 1917
Smierc Feniksa , 1922
Rymy dzieciece , 1922
Polów , 1926
Gdzieskolwiek jest - jeslis jest - lituj mej zalosci! , 1921
Obrazy imion wrózebne , 1926
Opowiesc o moskiewskim meczenstwie. Zloty wianek , 1927
Placzacy ptak , 1927
Czarodziejskie zwierciadelka. 50 wrózb wierszem , 1928
Popiól i perly , 1930
Ballady bohaterskie , 1934
Wesole wierszyki , 1934
Slowik litewski. Poezja , 1936
Wiersze o Marszalku Piłsudskim. 1912-1935 , 1936
Sciezka obok drogi , 1939
Wiersze religijne. 1912-1954 , 1955
Z rozbitego fotoplastykonu , memories, 1957
Wiersze dzieciece , 1959
Zwierzaki i ziola , 1960
Ta jedna nic , 1967
Trazymenski zajac , Memoirs, 1968
Rzeczy sceniczne , 1969

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SURNAME	Iłłakowiczówna, Kazimiera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vilnius
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 1983
Place of death	Poses