Zofia Nałkowska

Ursula Phillips (University College London)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.3: Polish Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Ewa M. Thompson (Rice University)

Dates

Born 10 Nov 1884
Died 17 Dec 1954
Activity 1898-1954

Places

Active in Poland

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Other

Letter-writer/ Diarist
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Nałkowska's Works

Save to Bookshelf

Zofia Nałkowska, author of fifteen novels, eleven collections of short stories and three plays published in her lifetime, and a life-long diary published posthumously (six volumes, 1970–2001), was one of the most important writers of interwar independent Poland (1918–1939). Between 1924 and 1939 she published her most acclaimed fiction and drama, played significant roles in the Polish PEN Club (from the mid-1920s) and Polish Academy of Literature (1933–1939), and was the recipient of numerous awards. Her life as an author or public figure, however, both precedes and exceeds the interwar years. By 1918, she had already published six novels and four collections of stories, regarded as exemplars of the modernist Young Poland movement. Highly aestheticized and exuding Nietzschean…

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

3644 words

Citation: Phillips, Ursula. "Zofia Nałkowska". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 April 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13580, accessed 23 November 2024.]