WRITER

Halina Poświatowska

1935 - 1967

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Halina Poświatowska (Polish: [Pɔɕviatɔvska]; née Halina Myga, entered into church records as Helena Myga; born 9 May 1935 – 11 October 1967) was a Polish poet and writer. Poświatowska is famous for her lyrical poetry, and for her intellectual, passionate yet unsentimental poetry on the themes of death, love, existence, famous historical personages, especially women, as well as her mordant treatment of life, living, being, bees, cats and the sensual qualities of loving, grieving and desiring. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Halina Poświatowska has received more than 46,262 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Halina Poświatowska is the 5,293rd most popular writer (down from 4,898th in 2019), the 1,059th most popular biography from Poland (down from 957th in 2019) and the 130th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Halina Poświatowska ranks 5,293 out of 7,302Before her are Joël Dicker, Thea Beckman, Diane di Prima, Sergey Gorodetsky, Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani, and Duygu Asena. After her are Joanne Harris, Giorgi Leonidze, Shere Hite, Ben Bova, Majit Gafuri, and Vikenty Veresaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Halina Poświatowska ranks 383Before her are Bobby Timmons, Avtandil Koridze, Ingrid Noll, Carol Kaye, Bahaa Taher, and Kiki Kogelnik. After her are Esther Phillips, Núria Espert, Margarita Nikolaeva, Marco Coll, Herb Kohl, and Carlo Facetti. Among people deceased in 1967, Halina Poświatowska ranks 221Before her are Vilho Tuulos, Renzo De Vecchi, Michael J. Adams, Fridrikh Ermler, Ulderico Sergo, and Sergey Gorodetsky. After her are Charles Darrow, Mary Garden, Marie Noël, Paul Castanet, Francis Spellman, and Johan Falkberget.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Halina Poświatowska ranks 1,059 out of 1,694Before her are Władysław Broniewski (1897), Waldemar Pawlak (1959), Anna Świrszczyńska (1909), Elżbieta Witek (1957), Danas Pozniakas (1939), and Erich Hecke (1887). After her are Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska (1957), Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888), Artur Brauner (1918), Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (1953), Eddi Arent (1925), and Marie Juchacz (1879).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Halina Poświatowska ranks 130Before her are Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891), Paul Mattick (1904), Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865), Heinrich Laube (1806), Władysław Broniewski (1897), and Anna Świrszczyńska (1909). After her are Wacław Potocki (1621), Jan Twardowski (1915), Jan Lechoń (1899), Eva Kotchever (1891), Kazimierz Brandys (1916), and Antoni Lange (1862).