Anna Świrszczyńska

Anna Świrszczyńska (1909-1984), born in Warsaw, the daughter of a poor painter, grew up in her father's studio and worked early to pay for her studies of medieval and Baroque literature at the University of Warsaw. She published from the thirties onwards, joined the resistance under the occupation, wrote in the underground press and was a military nurse during the 1944 uprising; once she waited an hour for her execution, which did not take place. Settled in Kraków in 1945, she ran the literary side of a youth theatre there and died there on 30 September 1984.

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• PoetryBuilding the BarricadeBudowałam barykadęAnna Świrszczyńska · 1974Literature