Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer

Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865-1940), born in Ludźmierz, in the Podhale, into a noble family, studied philosophy in Kraków and then in Heidelberg. A representative poet of Young Poland, he lived in Kraków and Zakopane, then in Warsaw, where from 1921 he presided over the Society of Writers and Journalists, and in 1934 he was made an honorary member of the Polish Academy of Literature. A mental illness and the loss of his sight prevented him from writing in his last years. Driven out of the Europejski hotel at the beginning of the occupation, he died in a Warsaw hospital on 18 January 1940.

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• Short storiesTales of the TatrasNa skalnym PodhaluKazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer · 1910LiteraturePublic domain