Julia Hartwig - Hard times bring out the best in people
1,045 views · Published 21 September 2011 · 1:50 · Indexed 17 October 2026
Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2011 · People & Blogs
To listen to more of Julia Hartwig’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFyU9ehLuouVmm_Ocec3PUd8 Julia Hartwig (born 1921) is a Polish poet, essayist, translator and author of children's books. She studied at the University of Warsaw, the Catholic University in Lublin and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Czesław Miłosz called her 'the grande dame of Polish poetry'. Julia Hartwig is one of the few poets in Poland who makes masterly use of poetic prose. Hartwig has translated poems by Apollinaire, Rimbaud, Max Jacob, Cendrars and Supervielle, and has published monographs on Apollinaire and Gerard de Nerval. She has also translated from English, and published a large anthology of American poetry which she co-edited in 1992 with her late husband, the poet Artur Międzyrzecki.
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