Korn was born in
eastern Galicia on a farming estate near Pidlisky (now in
Ukraine), and started writing poetry at an early age. At the start of the
First World War, her family fled to
Vienna, returning to
Poland in 1918. It was in this year that Korn's first published works appeared, in
Nowy Dziennik, a
Zionist newspaper, and in
Głos Przemyski, a
socialist journal. These items were published in
Polish, but a year later she published her first Yiddish poem in the
Lemberger Tageblatt. Her recognition grew with the publication of her first volumes of poetry:
Dorf (Village, 1928) and
Royter mon (Red Poppies, 1937). Her first collection of prose,
Erd (Land), was published in 1936. Korn was in
Białystok when the
German invasion of the Soviet Union took place in June 1941; she was evacuated by Soviet authorities to
Uzbekistan along with other prominent Jewish writers. She eventually relocated to
Moscow, where she remained until the end of the war. Korn's fourth collection of poetry,
Heym un heymlozikayt (Home and Homelessness), was published in 1948. She remained in Montreal, writing poetry, until her death in 1982. ==Awards==