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Bolesław Leśmian

Died in 1937

Bolesław Leśmian (1877-1937), born Lesman in Warsaw into an assimilated Jewish intelligentsia family, spent his youth in Kyiv, where he studied law. Settled in Warsaw from 1901, he also lived in Paris until 1906, published verse in Russian and in Polish, notably in the review Chimera, and in 1911 took part in founding the Artistic Theatre. A notary in Hrubieszów from 1918, then in Zamość, he had to repay the sums embezzled in 1929 by one of his deputies. Elected in 1933 to the Polish Academy of Literature, he returned to Warsaw in 1935 and died there on 5 November 1937.

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