Women Writers Initiative

Poland


APPIGNANESI, Lisa (Pseudonym is Jessica Ayre)

Birth date: January 4, 1946
Birthplace: Lodz, Poland
Education: McGill University, B.A. in 1966 and a M.A. in 1967.
Professional Career: She was a staff writer for the Centre for Community Research in New York from 1970-71. She has been a lecturer in literature at the University of Essex and New England College as well as the founding member and editorial director for the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative. She has been an independent television producer of programs for Channel 4 and the British Broadcasting program since 1986 and has been a full-time writer since 1990.

Works

  • A Good Woman. London: Harper Collins, 1996.
  • Dreams of Innocence. New York City: Dutton, 1995.
  • Memory and Desire. New York City: Dutton, 1992.
  • New Discovery. London: Mills and Boon, 1984.
  • Hard to Handle. London: Mills and Boon, 1983.
  • One Man Woman. London: Mills and Boon, 1982.
  • Not to be Trusted. London: Mills and Boon, 1981.
  • The Cabaret. London: Studio Vista, 1975.

 

ETTINGER, Elzbieta

Birth date: 1925
Birthplace: Poland
Education: Obtained an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw. She also studied at the Academy of Political Science in Warsaw.
Professional Career: She was a senior fellow at Radcliffe Institute and has been affiliated with Radcliffe Seminars from 1972-74. She has been a professor of humanities and Thomas Maloy Professor of Rhetoric at MIT in Cambridge since 1973.

Works

  • Kindergarten. Boston: Houghton, 1970.

 

FRANKEL, Alona

Birth date: 1937
Birthplace: Cracow, Poland
Education: Attended Avni Art Academy in Tel-Aviv from 1953-55.
Professional Career: Author and illustrator of children's fiction since 1975. She has also been a graphic designer since 1955 and has many exhibits abroad, especially Israel. Many of her books have been translated into Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Japanese, Yiddish, and Arabian.

Works

  • A Book to Babysit By. Tel-Aviv: Steimatzky, 1991.
  • I Want My Mother. Jerusalem: Keter, 1990.
  • The Book of Manners. Jerusalem: Keter, 1990.
  • From Armadillo to Octopus. Tel-Aviv: Massada, 1990.
  • One Day.... Tel-Aviv: Massada, 1990.
  • A Lullaby. Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1987.
  • The Princess and the Caterpillar. Jerusalem: Keter, 1987.
  • The Ship and the Island. Jerusalem: Keter, 1985.
  • There is No One Like Mother. Tel-Aviv: Am Oved, 1985.
  • A Fairy Tale. Tel-Aviv: Zmora Bitan, 1985.
  • The Princess of Dreams. Tel-Aviv: Massada, 1984.
  • The Book of Letters. Tel-Aviv: Zmora Bitan, 1983.
  • The Book of Numbers. Tel-Aviv: Zmora Bitan, 1983.
  • The Moon Book. Tel-Aviv: Zmora Bitan, 1983.
  • The Clothes We Wear. Tel-Aviv: Massada, 1983.
  • A True Story. Tel-Aviv: Massada, 1981.
  • A Book to Eat By. Tel-Aviv: Massada, 1980.
  • One, Two, Three, What Can a Mushroom Be?. Tel-Aviv: Zmora Bitan, 1980.
  • Angela, The Little Devil. Tel-Aviv: Zmora Bitan, 1979.
  • Let's Go From Head to Toe. Tel-Aviv: Massada, 1979.
  • The Goodnight Book. Tel-Aviv: Massada, 1979.
  • The Family of Tiny White Elephants. Tel-Aviv: Massada, 1978.
  • Once Upon a Potty. Tel-Aviv: Massada, 1975.

 

GINTER, Maria

Birth date: 1922
Birthplace: Smolice, Poland
Education: Attended Sorbonne, University of Paris from 1962-64 and received a B.A. at Long Island University in 1970, and an M.A. in 1974.
Professional Career: She is an art designer, film consultant, journalist, and decorator. She was an artist in London and Paris from 1962-64 and a writer, artist, and teacher in the U.S. since 1964. She has also been a teacher of French and tennis.

Works

  • Galopem na przelaj. Iskry: Poland, 1982.
  • Poems and Visual Images. Privately Printed, 1974.
  • Wspomnienia wiezniow pawiaka. Poland, 1968.
  • Life in Both Hands. Trans. by P.C. Blauth-Muszkowski, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964.

 

SZYMBORSKA, Wislawa

Birth date: 1923
Birthplace: Prowent-Bnin, Poland
Education: Attended Jagellonian University from 1945-48.
Professional Career: Poet and literary critic. She was a poetry editor and columnist for the literary weekly magazine, Zycie literackie from 1953-81. She was won many awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.

Works

  • Poems: New and Collected, 1957-1997. Trans. by Stanislaw Baraanczak and Clare Cavanagh. New York City: Harcourt Brace, 1998.
  • Nulla e in regalo. Krakow: Wydawn Literackie, 1998.
  • Oasmierci bez przesady = de la mort sans exagerer. Krakow: Wydawn Literackie, 1997.
  • Nothing Twice: Selected Poems. Krackow: Wydawn Literackie, 1997.
  • Widok z ziarnkiem piasku: 102 wiersze. Krackow: Wydawn, 1996.
  • View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems. Trans. by Stanislaw Baraanczak and Clare Cavanagh. New York City: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
  • Koniec i poczatek. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1993.
  • Wieczor autorski wiersze. Warsaw: Anagram, 1992.
  • Poezje = Poems. Trans. by Krynski and Maguire. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1989.
  • Ludzie na moscie. Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1986.
  • Poezje wybrane. Warsaw: Ludowa Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza, 1983.
  • Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.
  • Wielka liczba. Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1976.
  • Tarsjusz i inne wiersze. Warsaw: Agencja Wydawnicza, 1976.
  • Wybor wierzy. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1973.
  • Wszelki wypadek. Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1972.
  • Wybor poezja. Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1970.
  • Poezja. Warsaw: Przedmowa Jerzego Kwiatkowskiego, 1970.
  • Poezja wybrane. Warsaw: Ludowa Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza, 1967.
  • Sto pociech. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1967.
  • Wiersze wybrane. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1964.
  • Sol. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1962.

 

GOERKE, Natasza

Birth date: 1960
Birthplace: Poznan, Poland
Education: Studied Orietal Languages in Poznan and Krakow.
Professional Career: Writer of absurb stories. She lives in Hamburg and her first short stories were published in Czaskutury in March of 1992. Many of her stories have been translated into German.

Works

  • Pozegnania Plazmy. Pozna'n: Obserwator, 1999.
  • Ksiega Pasztetow. Pzna'n: Obserwator, 1997.
  • Fractale. Pzna'n: Obserwator, 1994.

 

KIELAR, Marzanna Bogumila

Birth date: 1963
Birthplace: Goldap, Poland
Education: Studied Philosophy in Warsaw.
Professional Career: She is a poet who published her first poems in Czas Kultury in 1991. Her poetry is full of images of her homeland of Poland and describes the landscape and terrain there.

Works

  • Materia prima. Pozna'n: Obserwator, 1999.

 
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