Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki |
| Born in 1962 near Lubaczow, he is a poet and newspaper columnist who read Polish at university. He has published six volumes of poetry and a collection of newspaper articles, and is a winner of the Barbara Sadowska prize, Nike Prize'2009 (...)
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| | (born 1952) – journalist, columnist, novelist and activist in the democratic opposition, who spent the 1980s in emigration in France. After returning to Poland he worked as a journalist for newspapers including Życie and Rzeczpospolita and for the weekly Wprost. In (...)
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MICKIEWICZ AdamMICKIEWICZ, Adam, 1798-1855, greatest of Polish poets, dramatist, journalist; he expressed ideas associated with national liberation and messianism (Polish Messianism); for membership in Philomath Association, exiled to Russia (1824-29) where he met Pushkin and others; then went to West; lectured on Slavonic Literatures at College de France; formed Polish Legion in Italy 1848; subsequently edited international progressive daily Trybuna Ludow(La Tribune des Peuples-Tribune of the Peoples); organized Polish Legion in Turkey 1855; died in Istanbul, buried in Paris; remains returned to Poland and reinterred at Wawel Castle 1890; publication of Ballady i romanse (Ballads and Romances, 1822) regarded as beginning of Polish Romanticism; Oda do mlodosci (Ode to Youth, 1838); poetical novels: Grazyna (1823), Konrad Wallenrod (1828); Sonety krymskie (Crimean Sonnets, 1826); dramatic poem Dziady (Forefathers' Eve, Parts II and IV, 1823; Part III, 1832); Ksiegi narodu polskiego i pielgrzymstwa polskiego (The Book of the Polish Nation and of the Polish Pilgrims, 1832); epic Pan Tadeusz (1834); lyrical poems, translations.
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There are more than 28,000 publishers registered in Poland. However, the market is highly concentrated. The 200 largest publishing firms still hold almost 98 per cent of it. More »
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