- Halina Poświatowska
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name = Halina Poświatowska
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birthdate =May 9 ,1935
birthplace =Częstochowa ,Poland
deathdate =October 11 ,1967
deathplace =Warsaw , Poland
occupation =Poet
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influenced =Halina Poświatowska (
May 9 ,1935 ,Częstochowa ,Poland -October 11 ,1967 ,Warsaw , Poland) - Polishpoet andwriter , one of the most important figures in modern Polishliterature .She is famous for her lyrical poetry and for her intellectual and passionate yet unsentimental poetry on the themes of death, love, existence, famous historical personages, especially women, as well as her mordant treatment of life, living, being, bees, cats and the sensual qualities of loving, grieving and desiring.
She died at 32 after a second heart operation to correct a heart defect that limited her mobility and breathing, which she acquired when she fell ill as a child during the
World War II Nazi occupation of Poland.Her first heart operation was performed in
Philadelphia ,USA , in 1958, and was successful enough to enable her tolive for several more years. Soon afterward she enrolled atSmith College in Northampton,Massachusetts , USA, where she completed her undergraduate studies in 3 years. Turning down offers of graduate study and financial support in the USA, she returned to Poland where she completed aMaster's degree inPhilosophy at theJagellonian University inKraków .Her works have been collected in the four-volume "Dzieła" (Works), published by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, Poland, 1997, of which the first two volumes (several hundred pages) are poems,and the latter two prose and letters, respectively.
External links
* [http://www.koniczynka.prv.pl/ Comprehensive site that includes her original poetry, bio, indexes, photographs] pl icon
* [http://twice22.org/HalinaFAQ/WierszeWybraneInTranslation/info-help/README.html Marek Lugowski's HalinaFAQ poems in translation archive (English, with Polish originals)] en icon pl icon
** [http://mareklug.freeshell.org/HalinaFAQ/WierszeWybraneInTranslation/info-help/README.html (mirror site)] en icon pl icon
* [http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/dz_borkowska_nierozwazna_nieromantyczna Essay introducing a book by Grażyna Borkowska about the poet] en icon pl icon
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