Maria Krüger (1904–1999) was a Polish

children's literature Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reade ...

writer and journalist. Krüger participated in the

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. Several of her children's books received radio and television adaptations, and have been required reading in Polish schools. Daughter of author Edmund Krüger and Aniela Paulina Krüger (née Dobosiewicz), older sister of director and animator Halina Bielińska. Selected works: * '' Karolcia'' (1959) * '' Godzina pąsowej róży'' (1960) * ''

The Nutcracker ''The Nutcracker'' (, ), Opus number, Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a '; ) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll. Th ...

'' (1967) * '' Witaj, Karolciu'' (1970)

References

* ''Współcześni polscy pisarze i badacze literatury. Słownik biobibliograficzny'', T. 4, pod red. J. Czachowskiej, A. Szałagan. Warszawa: WSiP, 1996, p. 388. . 1904 births 1999 deaths Polish children's writers Polish writers of young adult literature Polish women children's writers 20th-century Polish women writers 20th-century Polish novelists 20th-century Polish journalists Warsaw Uprising insurgents Women in World War II {{Poland-writer-stub