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Zofia Nałkowska

Died in 1954

Zofia Nałkowska (1884-1954), born in Warsaw, the daughter of the geographer and publicist Wacław Nałkowski and of a textbook author, was educated at a private boarding school and at the clandestine Flying University. A novelist from 1906, she took part in founding the Professional Union of Writers, was vice-president of the Polish PEN Club from 1928 and the only woman member of the Polish Academy of Literature. During the occupation she ran a small tobacco shop. A deputy after the war, she kept her diary from 1899 to 1954 and died in Warsaw on 17 December 1954.

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