Paweł Hulka-Laskowski (25 June 1881 – 29 October 1946) was a Polish writer, translator, journalist and social worker. He was born in

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in working class, Protestant family of Czech ancestry. His parents were textile factory workers. In 1903 he enrolled to the

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. After his return to Poland, he settled with his wife Kazimiera and daughter Elżbieta in

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. In June 1910 Hulka-Laskowski and his wife were arrested by Tsarist Russian authorities, being accused on complicity in the assassination attempt of a local Russian gendarmerie commander. After their release from prison they moved to

. In the interwar period, Hulka-Laskowski contributed to many newspapers and magazines, such as ''Bluszcz'', ''Echo Literacko-Artystyczne'', ''Sfinks'', ''Myśl Niepodległa'', ''Wiadomości Literackie'' and ''Jednota''. He was a prolific translator, translating i.a. the works of

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, James Fenimore Cooper,

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and Roger Martin du Gard. He is most known for the Polish translation of

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's ''

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''. He died in a hospital in

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from a

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, and was buried at the Protestant cemetery there.

Works

* 1927 ''Porucznik Regier'' (Lieutenant Regier) * 1934 ''Mój Żyrardów'' (My Żyrardów) * 1938 ''Śląsk za Olzą'' (Silesia Behind Olza) * 1946 ''Księżyc nad Cieszynem'' (Moon over Cieszyn)

References

* Snoch, Bogdan, ''Górnośląski Leksykon Biograficzny. Suplement do wydania drugiego.'' Katowice:

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, 2006, p. 50–51. 1881 births 1946 deaths People from Żyrardów Polish male writers Polish translators 20th-century translators Polish Calvinist and Reformed Christians Polish people of Czech descent Translators from Czech 20th-century Polish journalists {{Poland-journalist-stub