
ABOUT
Twentieth-century Polish poet, translator, Biblical commentary writer, children's author, and literary critic. Her translated works include In That Great River: A Notebook and Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska.She lived in Lublin and taught in underground schools during the Nazi Occupation of Poland.She and Wislawa Szymborska, born three years apart, were both twentieth-century Polish poets.
BEFORE FAMEShe was born in Krasnystaw, Poland as one of four daughters of Tadeusz Kamienski and Maria z Cekalskich. She published her first poems at age fourteen.
PERSONAL LIFEShe married Jan Spiewak, a fellow poet and translator. The pair had two sons, born in 1949 and 1951.
FUN FACTSPoet Anna Kamienska were born on Monday, in a leap year, birthstone is Diamond, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Monkey, it is 91 days until Anna Kamienska next birthday.
- 94Jan. 11 1929