Kornel Makuszyński (; 8 January 1884 – 31 July 1953) was a Polish writer of

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and youth literature. Dorota Piasecka. ''Proza Kornela Makuszyńskiego dla młodego odbiorcy: zarys problematyki''. PWN. 1984. pp. 11, 34. He was an elected member of the prestigious

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in the

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Life

Makuszyński was born in Stryj in the

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of Poland (now in

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) to Edward and Julia née Ogonowska. He attended the

Jan Długosz Jan Długosz (; 1 December 1415 – 19 May 1480), also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is considered Poland's first histo ...

gymnasium in

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(Polish: ''Lwów''). While in school he wrote

occasional poetry Occasional poetry is poetry composed for a particular occasion. In the history of literature, it is often studied in connection with orality, performance, and patronage. Term As a term of literary criticism, "occasional poetry" describes the wo ...

(he started writing at the age of 14). Makuszyński had his first poem published in 1902 in the newspaper ''Słowo Polskie'' (''Polish Word''), for which he soon became a theatrical critic. He studied language and literature at both the

University of Lviv The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

(then Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, Poland) and in

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. He was evacuated to Kiev in 1915, where he ran the Polish Theatre and was the chairman of the Polish writers and journalist community. He moved to

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in 1918, and became a writer. His

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, particularly the series about the goat, Koziołek Matołek, illustrated by Marian Walentynowicz, have an enduring popularity in Poland, whatever the sharp changes in the country's fortunes and its political system. They have been translated into many other languages. Among others, they are very popular in

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, where Polish Jewish immigrants since the 1920s and 1930s took care to have many of them translated into Hebrew and introduced them to their own children. Makuszyński was temporarily blacklisted right after World War II by his chief rival at the Polish Academy of Literature and later, communist apparatchik

Wincenty Rzymowski Wincenty Rzymowski (19 July 1883, in Kuczbork-Osada – 30 April 1950, in Warsaw) was a Polish politician and writer. Rzymowski was one of the many faces of Stalinism in postwar Poland. Background In the Second Polish Republic, Wincenty Rzymows ...

, a plagiarist. Makuszyński died in 1953 in

Zakopane Zakopane ( Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the extreme south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has been ...

, where he lived from 1945. He was buried at the Peksowe Brzysko cemetery in Zakopane. There is a museum dedicated to him in the city, originally launched by his widow, Janina. kor mak grave

Works

* Arabian Affairs (1913; ''Awantury Arabskie'') * Innocent Years (1925; ''Bezgrzeszne lata'') * The Two Who Stole the Moon (1928; '' O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc''; filmed in 1962 starring

Lech Kaczyński Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (; 18 June 194910 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010. Before his tenure as president, he pre ...

, former

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, and his identical twin brother

Jarosław Jarosław (; uk, Ярослав, Yaroslav, ; yi, יאַרעסלאָוו, Yareslov; german: Jaroslau) is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 38,970 inhabitants, as of 30 June 2014. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previ ...

, former

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) * 120 adventures of Matołek the Billy-Goat (1933; ''120 Przygód Koziołka Matołka'') * The Smile of Lwów, (1934; ''Usmiech Lwowa'') * Argument about Basia (1936; ''Awantura o Basię''; filmed 1959) * Satan from the 7th grade (1937; ''Szatan z siódmej klasy'') * Merry Devil's Friend (1937; ''Przyjaciel wesołego diabła''; filmed 1987) * About the Wawel Dragon (1937; ''O wawelskim smoku''; filmed 1987) * Eva's folly (1940; ''Szaleństwa panny Ewy''; filmed 1985)

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