Scherer-Virski, Olga

Olga Scherer-Virski (1927-2001), Polish scholar and author.

From the description of Olga Scherer-Virski papers, 1954-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702161879

Olga Scherer-Virski was a Polish writer, literary scholar, and translator. She was born in Cracow, Poland, educated in the United States, where she completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1952, and then held research affiliations and teaching positions at various institutions in the U.S. and France, including Bard College (1946-48,) Yale University (1953-57), Indiana University (1959-60), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (1961-65), and the Université de Paris (1969-). She is the author of The Modern Polish Short Story (1955), a novella for children ( Spot Luck, 1957), and two novels, Wesolych Swiat (1962) and W Czas Morowy (1967). She also translated Manfred Kridl's A Survey of Polish Literature and Culture (1956).

Biographical information taken from Who's Who in the World (8th ed.) and the online Gale Biography Resource Center.

From the guide to the Olga Scherer-Virski papers, 1954-1988, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)