Anna Świrszczyńsk

Renata Ingbrant (Stockholm University)

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 7 Feb 1909
Died 30 Sep 1984
Activity 1930-1984

Places

Born in Poland
Active in Poland

Activities

Primary

Poet

Other

Children's/Young Adult writer
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Świrszczyńska's Works

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Anna Świrszczyńska (also known as Anna Swir) is considered today to be one of the most prominent feminist poets in Polish literature. However, during her lifetime she experienced both highs and lows in her literary career. It seems that Polish literary criticism did not really keep up with her work at the time it was published and it was acknowledged somewhat belatedly. “Unfashionable”, “marginal”, “not at all esteemed”—for a long time Świrszczyńska was repeatedly described in terms of the contradiction between her marginal position and the undeniable greatness of her work. In the 1990s, the renowned Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz tried to reclaim Świrszczyńska’s reputation as a writer by publishing a series of articles about her life and work in…

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Citation: Ingbrant, Renata. "Anna Świrszczyńsk". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 April 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13858, accessed 23 November 2024.]