Kazimierz Wierzyński ( Drohobycz,

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, 27 August 1894 – 13 February 1969,

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) was a Polish

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and

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; an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature in the

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Life

Kazimierz Wierzyński was born in Drohobycz (Drohobych),

. He was a co-founder, with Julian Tuwim and three other poets, of the

Skamander Skamander was a Polish group of experimental poetry, poets founded in 1918 by Julian Tuwim, Antoni Słonimski, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Kazimierz Wierzyński and Jan Lechoń. Initially unnamed, in December 1919 it adopted the name ''Skamander'' ...

group of experimental poets. His work ''Olympic Laurel'' ( Polish: ''Laur olimpijski'', 1927), which idealizes the grace and fitness of

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s, won the gold medal for poetry at the 1928 Olympic Games in

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,Kazimierz Wierzyński profile
at www.databaseolympics.com and his other early poems also celebrate the joy of living. In September 1939, after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Wierzyński and his wife Helena escaped from Poland and, via Romania, Yugoslavia, Italy, and France, eventually reached the USA, where they stayed for almost twenty years. His later works, written in exile, are more somber and socially conscious. ''The Bitter Crop'' (1933) includes poems about the

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. His ''Forgotten Battlefield'' (1944) contains narratives of

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. He died in

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at Culture.pl 1894 births 1969 deaths Burials at Powązki Cemetery People from Drohobych Polish Austro-Hungarians Polish male writers Polish Rifle Squads members Polish Military Organisation members Polish legionnaires (World War I) Olympic gold medalists in art competitions Members of the Polish Academy of Literature Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature 20th-century Polish poets Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics 20th-century Polish male writers Art competitors at the 1928 Summer Olympics People associated with Kultura (magazine) {{Poland-writer-stub

Life

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