- Kornel Makuszyński
Kornel Makuszyński (
8 January 1884 inStryj , currentlyUkraine —31 July 1953 inZakopane ) was a Polish writer of children's andyouth literature .He went to school in
Lviv (Polish: "Lwów"), and wrote his first poems at the age of 14. These were published two years later in the newspaper "Słowo Polskie", in which he soon became a theatre critic. He studied language and literature at both theUniversity of Lviv (then Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, Poland) and inParis . He was evacuated toKiev in 1915, where he ran the Polish Theatre and was the chairman of the Polish writers and journalist community.He moved to
Warsaw in 1918, and became a writer.He was buried at the Peksowe Brzysko cemetery in Zakopane, where he lived from 1945. There is a museum dedicated to him there.
His children's books have an enduring popularity in Poland, whatever the sharp changes in the country's fortunes and its political system. They have been translated to many other languges. Among others, they are very popular in
Israel , where Polish Jewish immigrants since the 1920's and 1930's took care to have many of them translated to Hebrew and introduced them to their own children.Bibliography (incomplete)
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Arabian Affairs (1913; "Awantury Arabskie")
* Innocent Years (1925; "Bezgrzeszne lata")
*The Two Who Stole the Moon (1928; "O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc "; filmed in 1962 starringLech Kaczyński , nowPresident of Poland , and his identical twin brother Jarosław, formerPrime Minister of Poland )
* 120 adventures of Matołek the Billy-Goat (1933; "120 Przygód Koziołka Matołka")
*Argument about Basia (1936; "Awantura o Basię";filmed 1959)
*Satan from the 7th grade (1937; "Szatan z siódmej klasy")
*Merry Devil's Friend (1937; "Przyjaciel wesołego diabła"; filmed 1987)
*About the Wawel Dragon (1937; "O wawelskim smoku"; filmed 1987)
*Eva's folly (1940; "Szaleństwa panny Ewy"; filmed 1985)
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