Aleksander Wat papers 1915-1988

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Aleksander Wat papers 1915-1988

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The papers document thelife and writings of Aleksander Wat, from his early poetry in the 1910s to theposthumous publication of his work by his wife Paulina and by Czesław Miłosz.Early material (prior to the end of the Second World War) is sparse andconsists chiefly of correspondence, personal documents and photographs. Amongthe early material is documentation of the Wat's exile in Kazakhstan. Latermaterial includes numerous notebooks that contain drafts of poetry and prosewritings, and the audio recordings that formed the basis for his memoir Mójwiek. The papers are of interest not only to researchers studying Wat'screative process and the context of his life, but also twentieth-century Polishliterature, the relationship of authors to Soviet society, and the postwarEastern European émigré literary community in France. Wat's repeated arrestsand exile are documented in his notebooks, in personal papers, and in materialrelated to his memoirs. His relationship to the émigré circle centered aroundthe monthly Kultura in France is documented in correspondence with JerzyGiedroyć, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Konstanty Jeleński, and Zygmunt Hertz.The posthumous success of his writings is documented in Paulina Wat'sCorrespondence in Series I, and in posthumously-dated material in the Writingsseries, which chiefly relates to the editing, translating, and publishing workof Paulina Wat and Czesław Miłosz.

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Wat, Aleksander.

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Aleksander Wat, poet, translator, critic, and co-founder of the Polish Futurism movement, was born Aleksander Chwat in 1900 in Warsaw, Poland. His early volumes of poetry include JA z jednej strony i JA z drugiej strony mego mopsożelaznego piecyka (ME from One Side and ME from the Other Side of My Pug Iron Stove, 1920) and Bezrobotny Lucyfer (Lucifer Unemployed, 1927). Wat's career was thwarted for decades during the Second World War and the Soviet era, as he was repeatedly imprisoned for polit...

Miłosz, Czesław

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Czesław Miłosz, poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate, was born on June 30, 1911, in Šeteniai (Szetejnie), Lithuania, and died on August 14, 2004, in Kraków, Poland, at the age of 93. Miłosz began to publish poetry while studying law at Vilnius University. After the Second World War, Miłosz became a cultural attaché for the People's Republic of Poland in New York and Washington, D.C. He then accepted a post in France in 1950. Increasingly estranged from the Polish government, he defected in 1951,...

Giedroyc, Jerzy

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Jeleński, Konstanty A. (Konstanty Aleksander), 1922-1987

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Konstanty Aleksander Jeleński (in French: Constantin Jelenski) was born January 2, 1922 in Warsaw, Poland and died May 4, 1987 in Paris, France. At the age of eighteen he left Poland to serve the Polish Army in France. He lived the remainder of his life as an émigré, first in Italy for several years after the Second World War, then settling in Paris in 1951. In Paris, Jeleński was active in Polish émigré literary circles. He led the Eastern European division of the Congress for Cultural Fr...

Giedroyc, Jerzy

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Watowa, Ola, 1903-1991

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Hertz, Zygmunt, 1908-1979

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Miłosz, Czesław

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Czesław Miłosz, poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate, was born on June 30, 1911 in Šeteniai (Szetejnie), Lithuania and died on August 14, 2004 in Kraków, Poland, at the age of 93. He married Janina Dłuska (1909-1986) in 1944 and they had two sons: Anthony and John Peter. His second wife Carol Thigpen, whom he married in 1992, died in 2002. Miłosz grew up in Lithuania amid diverse languages and ethnicities (including Polish, Lithuanian, Russian and Jewish) yet retained a str...

Herling-Grudziński, Gustaw, 1919-2000

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Wat, Aleksander

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Aleksander Wat, poet, translator, critic, and co-founder of the Polish Futurism movement, was born Aleksander Chwat in 1900 in Warsaw, Poland. His early volumes of poetry include JA z jednej strony i JA z drugiej strony mego mopsożelaznego piecyka ( ME from One Side and ME from the Other Side of My Pug Iron Stove, 1920) and Bezrobotny Lucyfer ( Lucifer Unemployed, 1927). Wat's career was thwarted for decades during the Second World War and the Soviet era, as he was repeatedly impris...