•
Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, playwright •
S. Ansky,
Bielorussian, Polish-Jewish author of
The Dybbuk •
Joanna Bator, novelist, feminist •
Witold Bełza, librarian, writer, publicist on
Bydgoszcz •
Halina Birenbaum, Polish Israeli writer, translator, chronicler of the martyrdom of
Polish Jewry •
Karol Olgierd Borchardt, maritime author •
Tadeusz Borowski, writer and journalist •
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, writer; translator of over 100 French literary classics •
Edmund Chojecki, journalist based in France •
Joanna Chmielewska, crime writer •
Sylwia Chutnik, novelist, feminist, social activist •
Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), English-language novelist •
Stanisław Czerniecki, landowner and chef, author of the first
Cookery book in Polish 1682 •
Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa, cookbook author •
Maria Dąbrowska, novelist and translator of the
Diary of Samuel Pepys into Polish •
Johannes Dantiscus (Jan Dantyszek),
Latin poet and
Prince-Bishop of Warmia •
Jacek Dehnel, writer, poet, translator, painter •
Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, author of the novel,
The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma •
Jacek Dukaj, science-fiction writer •
Adolf Dygasiński, novelist •
Leszek Engelking, short story writer •
Felicjan Medard Faleński, poet, novelist •
Aleksander Fredro, poet, comedy writer •
Jerzy Giedroyć, legendary émigré editor (
Kultura) •
Janusz Głowacki, playwright, nonfiction author •
Ferdynand Goetel, novelist, playwright, essayist •
Witold Gombrowicz, novelist, playwright •
Stefan Grabiński, horror writer •
Mieczysław Grydzewski, legendary editor (
Skamander,
Wiadomości Literackie) •
Henryk Grynberg, writer •
Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki, literary and theater critic •
Józef Hen, novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and reporter •
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, writer, journalist, essayist,
World War II underground fighter •
Marek Hłasko, novelist, short story writer •
Klementyna Hoffmanowa, writer of memoir and children's literature •
Paweł Huelle, essayist •
Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski •
Wincenty Kadłubek, political scientist, writer, chronicler •
Ryszard Kapuściński, writer and journalist •
Wojciech Karpiński, writer and essayist •
Maria Konopnicka, writer, novelist •
Tadeusz Konwicki, writer •
Janusz Korczak, writer, pedagogist •
Jerzy Kosiński, writer •
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, novelist and World War II resistance fighter •
Stefania Kossowska, journalist, writer, editor and broadcaster in emigré London •
Marek Krajewski, crime writer, known for his series of novels set in pre-war
Wrocław with
Eberhard Mock as the protagonist •
Hanna Krall, writer •
Ignacy Krasicki, author of the first Polish novel,
The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom, and of
Fables and Parables •
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Poland's most prolific writer (and one of the world's most prolific), noted especially for his
historical novels •
Wojciech Kuczok, novelist, screenwriter, film critic •
Antoni Lange, writer, poet, philosopher •
Stanisław Lem, science-fiction writer, essayist, philosopher •
Stanisław Lubieniecki, writer, astronomer*
Waldemar Łysiak, writer •
Józef Mackiewicz, writer, journalist •
Kornel Makuszyński, children's writer •
Dorota Masłowska, writer and playwright •
Juliusz Mieroszewski, publicist, translator of
Orwell's 1984 into Polish •
Kazimierz Moczarski, writer and journalist •
Sławomir Mrożek, dramatist and writer •
Wiesław Myśliwski, novelist •
Anna Nakwaska, children's author and
educationist •
Joanna Olczak-Ronikier, novelist •
Eliza Orzeszkowa,
Positivist writer •
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, writer •
Teodor Parnicki, historical novelist •
Jan Chryzostom Pasek, memoirist •
Sergiusz Piasecki, writer •
Krzysztof Piesiewicz, screenwriter and politician •
Jerzy Pilch, writer, columnist, journalist •
Elena Poniatowska, columnist and novelist •
Jan Potocki,
The Saragossa Manuscript •
Bolesław Prus,
The Doll and
Pharaoh •
Ksawery Pruszyński, writer and journalist •
Stanisława Przybyszewska •
Stanisław Przybyszewski, novelist, dramatist, and poet who wrote in both German and Polish •
Mikołaj Rej, a founder of
Polish literary language and literature •
Małgorzata Rejmer, writer •
Sydor Rey, writer, poet, novelist •
Władysław Reymont, 1924
Nobel laureate •
Zyta Rudzka, novelist •
Henryk Rzewuski, novelist •
Pinchas Sadeh, Israeli novelist and poet •
Barbara Sanguszko,
enlightenment writer and
salon hostess •
Andrzej Sapkowski, fantasy writer •
Sat-Okh, Polish-Shawnee writer •
Bruno Schulz, novelist and painter •
Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1905
Nobel laureate •
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978
Nobel laureate •
Piotr Skarga, poet, writer, humanist •
Andrzej Stasiuk, writer, journalist, literary critic •
Jędrzej Śniadecki, terminologist, writer •
Stefan Themerson, children's writer, film maker, inventor of "semantic poetry", philosopher •
Olga Tokarczuk, writer, psychologist, 2019
Nobel laureate •
Magdalena Tulli, novelist, translator •
Marian Turwid, writer and painter from
Bydgoszcz •
Leopold Tyrmand, writer •
Meyer Wolf Weisgal, American journalist, publisher, and playwright; President of the
Weizmann Institute of Science •
Józef Weyssenhoff, novelist, poet, literary critic •
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (
Witkacy) •
Stanisław Wyspiański, painter and writer •
Franciszek Zabłocki, comic dramatist and satirist •
Janusz A. Zajdel, science-fiction writer •
Gabriela Zapolska, novelist •
Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz,
political fiction and science-fiction writer •
Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, writer •
Antonina Żabińska, writer •
Stefan Żeromski, novelist •
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