Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski (28 November 1897 – 6 September 1973) was a Polish philologist, teacher, poet, translator and publisher. He used the pseudonym KAJ. He was born in Siedliszcze.
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. During World War I he was deported to

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and at

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. In interwar Poland, he was the founder and editor of an important literary magazine, Kamena. In 1924 he published his first book named (''To a red and white mistress''). During World War II, he taught underground classes, was eventually arrested and imprisoned in the

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. After the war he translated many works from Russian language, and became the editor of the reestablished Kamena magazine. He also translated from Czech and Slovak. Among his translations is the poem ''

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'' by Vítězslav Nezval. In the years 1971-1974 Wydawnictwo Lubelskie published Jaworski's ''Pisma'' (''Collected Works'') in twelve volumes.Muzeum Lubelskie
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* Waldemar Michalski, . . TAWA, Lublin 2014. * Kazimierz Prus, , , Słupsk 1981. 1897 births 1973 deaths Polish translators National University of Kharkiv alumni 20th-century Polish poets 20th-century translators Polish male poets 20th-century Polish male writers {{Poland-writer-stub