The most famous Polish writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Polish writers, perhaps, are not so familiar to the Russian reader. However, the classical layer of the literature of this country is very original and especially dramatic. Perhaps this is due to the tragic fate of the Polish people, the centuries of conquest and division of land, the Nazi invasion, the destruction of the country and its heavy restoration from the ruins.

However, Polish writers are known to us on the other hand, as the brightest representatives of such popular genres as science fiction and ironic detective. Let's talk about the most notable writers of Poland of the 20th and 21st centuries, whose glory went beyond the borders of their native country.

Senkevich Henrik

At the end of the 19th century, Senkevich became the most famous Polish writer. Books of Polish writers are not often awarded the largest world prizes, but in 1905 Senkevich won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was given for all his literary work.

One of his most famous works is the historical saga "Fire and Sword", which tells about the Commonwealth. In 1894 he wrote his next landmark work Quo Vadis, in the Russian translation of "Kamo Gryadyshi." This novel about the Roman Empire fixes Senkevich's fame as a master of the historical genre in literature. To this day, this novel remains very popular and is translated into various languages. His next work was the novel "The Crusaders" about the attacks of the Teutonic Order on Poland.

With the outbreak of World War I, Senkevich left for Switzerland, where he died in 1916 and was buried there. Later his remains were reburied in Warsaw.

Lem Stanislav

The Polish futurologist Stanislaw Lem is familiar to the whole world. His pen includes such famous works as "Solaris", "Eden", "Voice of the Lord" and others.

He was born in 1921 in the city of Lviv, which was then Polish. During the German occupation, by a miracle, I did not get into the ghetto due to forged documents. After the end of World War II, he moved to Krakow under the repatriation program, where he studies for a doctor. In 46, Lem prints his first story, and in 51 his debut novel Astronauts, which instantly made him famous, is published.

All the work of the writer can be divided into several groups. One is a serious work in the spirit of science fiction. The other is written by him as a satirist writer. These are grotesque works, such as "Cyberiad" and "Peace on Earth".

The Polish science fiction writer is the author of works that have been translated into 40 languages and the world has sold more than 30 million copies of his books. Some of his works are screened.

Gombrovich Witold

This is a Polish writer, a satirist, a playwright of the period of the 50-60s of the 20th century. His first major novel, Ferdidurka, produced a great response. He forever divided the literary world of Poland into admirers and critics of his work, among which there were other Polish writers.

A month before the start of World War II, Gombrowic sails on board a ship to Argentina, where he experiences the terrible years of war in exile. After the end of hostilities, the writer realizes that his work has been forgotten at home, but it is not easy to win fame abroad. Only in the mid-fifties in Poland began to reprint his old works.

In the 60's, popularity is returning to him, largely thanks to the new novels "Cosmos" and "Pornography", which are published in France. In the history of world literature, Vitold Gombrowicz remained a master of the word and a philosopher who had repeatedly entered into a dispute with history.

Vishnevsky Janusz

Few modern Polish writers are as well known in the world as Janusz Wisniewski. Despite the fact that now he lives in Frankfurt am Main, his works are always painted with the unique charm of Polish prose, with its drama and lyricism.

Vishnevsky's debut novel "Loneliness in the network" about virtual love literally blew up the world. Three years the book was a bestseller, it was screened and translated into many languages.

However, the author's subsequent works do not leave readers indifferent, because he writes about love, about the strength of this feeling and its weakness, about everything that the reader knows, but sometimes he can not put it into words.

Khmelevskaya Ioanna

The works of Pani Khmelevskaya are not regarded as high true literature, and it is not surprising, because her genre is an ironic detective. But you can not deny her fame. The books of Khmelevskaya Steel are so popular not only because of intrigue and cunningly twisted detective stories, but also the charm of its heroes. The main character of many books is written off from the author - bold, ironic, clever, passionate, Pani John did not leave anyone indifferent. The others were written off by Khmelevskaya from their friends, relatives and colleagues. By the will of her imagination, many became victims or criminals and, as they later laughed at, could not get rid of the imposed image.

Her own life tossed her many stories - love affairs, dizzying meetings, travel and much less enjoyable events of the Second World War, the occupation of Warsaw, the difficult economic destiny of the country. All this brought into her books that living language and sharp humor, which spread far beyond the limits of the native country.